Anna Kendrick has few fond memories of her time filming Twilight.
Unless you're a fan, you probably forgot Kendrick actually landed a part in the mega-popular vampire movie franchise as Bella Swan’s (Kristen Stewart) friend Jessica Stanley. And while Twihards have all sorts of fond memories of watching the film adaptations of Stephenie Meyer’s beloved book series of the same name, Kendrick’s recollections of working on the project are anything but pleasant.
"The first movie we filmed in Portland, Oregon, and I just remember being so cold and miserable," she recalled of shooting the 2008 movie in a career breakdown video with Vanity Fair. "I just remember my Converses being completely soaked through and feeling like, 'You know, this is a really great group of people and I'm sure we would be friends at a different time, but I want to murder everyone.’”
"Although it was also kind of bonding," she added, quipping, "...You go through some trauma event, like, you imagine people who survive a hostage situation and you're kind of bonded for life."
Kendrick, who starred in four of the five Twilight films, said things got slightly better shooting New Moon, noting the weather “wasn’t quite as intense” and that the cast bonded even more in the second flick.
The Pitch Perfect actress admitted that by Eclipse, her role in the franchise began to blur. "My whole job was just to go, like, 'This family of very pale people who we never see eating, they're really weird, right? Anyway...,'" she quipped.
Then, speaking of her final appearance in Breaking Dawn Part 1, Kendrick recalled, "It was just a wedding scene, where again I’m like, 'These people are so weird,' and you’re in just half-frozen mud, in what was the final scene of filming for everybody.”
”I get to come in and work for a week or two, and everybody else has been giving their blood, sweat and tears to the project for months,” she joked. “I show up at the end and I’m like, 'Guys, we did it. It’s over!'"
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