Anna Kendrick: Rocking out of Twilight into new movie role

Rocking out of Twilight into new movie role



SHE MADE her name as the cocksure Ivy League graduate in Up in the Air who finds firing people for a living is not an exact science.

Last night, Anna Kendrick, who won an Oscar nomination for her role in the film in which she starred alongside George Clooney, was in Dublin for the premiere for an altogether different type of film.

Scott Pilgrim v the World is based on a well-known Canadian comic book hero.

Pilgrim is a geek who plays bass in a very bad rock band.

He is smitten by a girl, but must defeat seven ex-boyfriends to win her heart in a type of real-life video game.

Kendrick turned up for the premiere at Cineworld in Parnell Street alongside her two co-stars: Michael Cera, who starred in the smash hit film Juno and now plays the title role in Scott Pilgrim ; and Jason Schwartzman, a nephew of The Godfather director Francis Ford Coppola.

The premiere had to contend with the vagaries of the Irish weather with heavy rain scuppering the red carpet arrival and a phalanx of screaming teenagers who were there for Jedward.

Kendrick is on the verge of becoming a very big star on the screen.

She first came to Ireland when she was 18 with her brother. “We were excited about being in a country where we were old enough to drink,” she recalled.

Up in the Air and the Twilight series have done wonders for her profile and she is starting to get recognised.

“I find myself saying no to work for the first time in my life which is oddly upsetting because I’d rather be on a film set than anywhere else. But they tell me it is a good position to be in,” she said.

She plays the teenage sister of Scott Pilgrim.

“As long as people want to continue to cast me as 18, I won’t get too worried about it,” said the 25-year-old actress.

“I was incredibly lazy, I just played myself. I have this exact relationship with my older brother.

And “yes, absolutely” was her emphatic answer when questioned as to whether she gets fed up being asked what George Clooney is really like. And the same goes with Robert Pattinson, the smouldering star of the Twilight series.