Anna Kendrick to self-confident people: ‘Get a neurosis & then we’ll talk’
Anna Kendrick covers the February issue of Nylon. It’s a bad shoot, right? Well, not bad so much as dated. Some of the photos are straight out of the ‘90s, some are early ‘00s. I don’t get why this stuff is making a comeback. Don’t get me wrong, the ‘90s were awesome, but style-wise, I’m glad we’ve grown as a society. As for Anna’s interview… as I’ve been saying, she’s grown on me a lot over the past year. I actually buy her “I was a nerdy theater geek kid” routine. She genuinely seems like the grown-up version of the nerdy musical-theater girl. Lea Michele has a similar vibe, but Lea doesn’t seem to have matured past that high school mentality whatsoever. Anyway, here are some highlights from Nylon:
She ‘doesn’t give a f—k’ about her tweets: “Twitter is only 140 characters. There’s really not that much I could reveal, then regret later. Of course, me being me, the tweets I want to take back are the ones that I think could’ve been punchier or more concise.”
Tweeting about her Ryan Gosling crush: “Thank God I’ve never been in a room with him! I don’t feel embarrassed, though. I’m sure he has a sense of humor. But I’d probably feel like I’d have to address [the tweet], and I’d end up saying something to make it much, much worse.”
She never got attention from the boys: “The great torture from my teen years into my mid-20s was trying to get attention from guys who were not interested in me—like, at all. So I’m happy that now my type is a nice guy who likes me back.”
A late bloomer: “I was a very late bloomer. I was the smallest in my class, always telling myself, ‘I’m never getting boobs!’ I remember being comforted by hearing that guys like small boobs and big boobs. They like any boobs!’ At the time I was like, ‘That is excellent news!'”
She prefers people with a little self-doubt: “I hope I don’t ever get the feeling that I’m the cool girl. I think self-doubt is healthy. It pushes you, and humbles you, and I would really hate to be one of the three people in the f–king universe who are actually well-rounded, because then you can’t relate to anybody else’s inner s–t. Sometimes I meet people who are too confident. I’m like, ‘I don’t even like being around you. You’re boring. Get a neurosis, and then we’ll talk.’”
That self-doubt part seemed very Woody Allen to me. I mean, it sounded like dialogue from a Woody Allen movie. I’m pretty sure Woody has written a line similar to that before: never trust a person without neuroses. That kind of mindset isn’t really my cup of tea though – I don’t trust people who wear their neuroses on their sleeve. Keep it bottled up, like the rest of us emotionally stunted robots.
Also – there was a rumor that Anna was secretly dating her Into the Woods costar Chris Pine. That rumor was denied though. I don’t think she’s his type, and he seems like too much of a bad-boy for her.
Photos courtesy of Nylon.
