Anna Kendrick covers the latest issue of The Edit. I think they were trying to style her like vintage Ann-Margret, sort of kittenish and sexy. I’m not sure how that works on Anna though? I like Kendrick a lot, but she doesn’t have that kittenish sexiness of Ann-Margret. Anyway, Anna is promoting her upcoming book, Scrappy Little Nobody, and a new film, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, with Aubrey Plaza and Zac Efron. You can see the full Edit editorial here, and here are some highlights from the interview:

She’s not into the fame game: “There was never a point where I was like, ‘If I could just be in a room with a bunch of famous people, that would be great.’ So I’m not surprised that I find myself riddled with anxiety over award shows and stuff…”

She was working back-to-back for four years & only recently took a vacation: “I definitely got to the point where I was like, ‘My life has been falling apart for four years, I need to get my act together. [After the vacation,] The world didn’t come crashing down, so that’s a lesson that I don’t need to be working every day.”

Writing a book: “I was so happy to create something that was all mine. Although, my editor kept saying, ‘It’s up to you, it’s your book.’ And I was like, ‘But could you tell me what to do?’”

She’s naturally snarky & the anti-Swifty: “I could play Madame Bovary and I’d still end up being dry and cynical. There are times where someone will be like, ‘Do that thing! You know, do your thing!’ I get mildly annoyed by that. But on a greater scale, I’m lucky that’s [my] reputation; when I’m snarky with people, they know that’s just how I communicate. I’d be terrible at being like Taylor Swift, the perfect Miss America version of interacting with fans
and making sure they have a good experience. I mean, I don’t want people to meet me and have it f*** up their day, but I’m glad I can say something weird to them and they know that’s just me.”

Filming ‘Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates’ in Hawaii: “I was like, ‘Is everyone wearing sunblock?’ I had an app for [finding] sharks in the area. Zac is such a daredevil that I developed this phobia he was going to get himself killed before we finished the movie. One day we did some cliff jumping and started out small, but by the end of it I was like, ‘Zac, don’t jump off that! Please!’”

She thinks highly of Zac Efron: “Zac is the sincere guy. Sincere, kind, helpful, generous – and then just so good at being an idiot on screen… Some people have a funny reputation, and they are so lovely that I want to shake people and go, ‘No, he’s one of the good ones!’ Then there are the ones who have these stellar reputations and I’m like, ‘That is an a**hole of the highest order!’ But I cannot say it.”

[From The Edit]

Even though Anna’s words about Taylor Swift are being interpretted as some kind of judgment or slam, she was trying to compliment Swifty. She was saying, Swifty knows how to treat her fans, that Swifty is earnest and fan-accommodating. Although “I’d be terrible at being like Taylor Swift…” could be the start of a lot of insulting statements, right? I’d be terrible at being like Taylor Swift, I could never organize a dozen pap strolls to celebrate a relationship that is only two weeks old. I’d be terrible at being like Taylor Swift, I could never hold on to petty grudges against another singer for years. Also: now I want Anna to tell us about the people who have stellar reputations but who are secretly a—holes. Who is she talking about?

Photos courtesy of The Edit.