Via The National
Anna Kendrick, the rising star of Up in the Air, is an old hand at awards ceremonies. She was nominated for a Tony award at the age of 12 for her turn as Dinah in the Broadway musical High Society, the third-youngest nominee ever. Now, a dozen years later, she has been nominated for the Golden Globes supporting actress honour.
Having already won a slew of critics’ awards for playing a management consultant employed to tell George Clooney how to do his job more efficiently, she should not be surprised if her name is pulled out of the golden envelope. Working for an outfit that specialises in downsizing companies, her character, Natalie Keener, even gets to put down Clooney’s looks by telling a friend on the phone that the heartthrob is simply “too old”. Nice.
Having already won a slew of critics’ awards for playing a management consultant employed to tell George Clooney how to do his job more efficiently, she should not be surprised if her name is pulled out of the golden envelope. Working for an outfit that specialises in downsizing companies, her character, Natalie Keener, even gets to put down Clooney’s looks by telling a friend on the phone that the heartthrob is simply “too old”. Nice.
Natalie spends the entire film trying to prove her value. Despite all the awards and nominations she has collected, it is an emotional state that Kendrick, now aged 24, can relate to. Sitting in a London hotel she tells me: “I feel like I have something to prove every day. I think most people feel that way even if they’re successful.”
It’s hard to feel that you’re a success when every day your colleagues at work are Clooney, Vera Farmiga and the director Jason Reitman, she says. “I could relate to Natalie in that sense. She’s trying to prove herself and be very grown-up. I was trying to keep up with George, Jason and Vera and prove that I was professional enough to be part of the film.”
It’s hard to feel that you’re a success when every day your colleagues at work are Clooney, Vera Farmiga and the director Jason Reitman, she says. “I could relate to Natalie in that sense. She’s trying to prove herself and be very grown-up. I was trying to keep up with George, Jason and Vera and prove that I was professional enough to be part of the film.”
She says of her working relationship with Clooney: “It’s pretty nice. I think that the relationship we have in the film – life imitates art, or art imitates life – it felt like a parental relationship. It was a very sweet working environment and I always felt like he was looking out for me, but I never thought, ‘he’s so dreamy’.”
Kendrick is obviously a quick learner, because it is she who has been winning most of the plaudits. The Midas touch has been a prominent feature of her career, as her first big venture into big-budget Hollywood movies was to take on the part of the jealous, catty Jessica Stanley in the Twilight franchise.
Kendrick is obviously a quick learner, because it is she who has been winning most of the plaudits. The Midas touch has been a prominent feature of her career, as her first big venture into big-budget Hollywood movies was to take on the part of the jealous, catty Jessica Stanley in the Twilight franchise.
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