Anna Kendrick Says Her New Movie About a Toxic Marriage Mirrors a Recent Relationship
glamour.complays Alice, a woman trapped in an emotionally abusive marriage whose friends attempt to help her separate fact from manipulation, in the upcoming Toronto Film Festival feature Alice, Darling.
And it's a subject that hits close to home.When she first read the script, written by Alanna Francis, Kendrick told , "I was coming out of a personal experience with emotional abuse and psychological abuse.
I think my rep sent it to me, because he knew what I'd been dealing with and sent it along. Because he was like, 'This sort of speaks to everything that you've been talking to me about.' "This content can also be viewed on the site it from.There are other films about toxic relationships, of course, but none reflected Kendrick's life quite like Alice, Darling.
In fact, sometimes those other films helped her “minimize” what was going on, because they didn't align exactly with her own experience."It kind of helped me normalize and minimize what was happening to me, because I thought, 'Well, if I was in an abusive relationship, it would look like that,' “ she shared.“I was in a situation where I loved and trusted this person more than I trusted myself.
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