Anna Kendrick reveals rude comment producer made about her chest when she was Just 19

Anna Kendrick has revealed the shock comment casting directors made about her chest when she was just 19 and trying to make her mark in Hollywood.

Anna Kendrick is making her directorial debut in the new film Woman of the Hour, which follows an aspiring actress who crosses paths with a serial killer while appearing on an episode of The Dating Game.

Kendrick, who also stars in the movie, revealed on Tuesday’s episode of The View that, while the film is based on real-life serial killer Rodney Alcala, some scenes were also inspired by her own life.

“There’s this scene at the beginning where I’m in a casting office, and I stole little things from my real life,” Kendrick told the co-hosts.

Anna Kendrick recalled an inappropriate comment casting directors made about her chest.

“There’s a moment where they ask me if I do nudity and they make this really weird specific comment about my body that’s lifted verbatim from a thing that happened to me when I was 19.”

The scene Kendrick is talking about follows her character, Cheryl Bradshaw, into a Hollywood casting call in 1978.

When she tells the directors she isn’t comfortable with nudity, the one man stares directly at her chest and says, “I’m sure they’re fine.”

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The actress told the panel she was just 19 at the time.

The star confirmed that was an actual line someone said to her two decades ago.

“I was just like, ‘Oh, do you guys mind saying this thing?’ I wasn’t sure I was gonna keep it in the movie,” Kendrick explained, while co-host Sunny Hostin called the remark “so rude.”

However, the actress gave audiences full permission to laugh at the scene.

Kendrick says she can laugh about it now, but it wasn’t so funny at the time. Picture: Emma McIntyre/Getty Images)

“It’s funny in the movie. We can all laugh at my humiliation,” she said. “That’s funny. We’re allowed.”

The film tells the true story of Alcala, who decided to go on The Dating Game amid his murder spree in the late 1970s. According to Kendrick, a common theme of the film is how men viewed women at the time.

“The question in every scene for [my character] is, ‘Do you see me as human or do you see me as something else?’” she said.

“By the end of the film, she sort of has her answer. And it’s not a great answer, but it’s some kind of resolution.”

This article originally appeared in Decider and was reproduced with permission

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