Penelope Cruz on Choosing Acting at Variety’s Creative Impact Honors: ‘Please God, Don’t Lock Me in an Office’
variety.comPat Saperstein Deputy Editor After a starry awards gala kicked off the Palm Springs Film Festival, several of this year’s awards contenders and friends reconnected at Variety’s 10 Directors to Watch & Creative Impact Awards Presented by DIRECTV, Friday at the Parker Palm Springs hotel.
Before the presentation, the honorees posed on the red carpet and stopped for questions with Variety’s senior culture & events editor Marc Malkin.
Anna Kendrick, a new member of Variety’s 10 Directors to Watch, recalled the first time she yelled action on set for her film “Woman of the Hour.” “Day one I was really worried about moving slowly on the first shot, of the first day, of the first Monday because it always sets the tone for the week,” the star-turned-director said. “And certainly, the very first one sets the tone for the whole shoot.
I really raced through the first couple of setups because I was like, ‘We’re not going to have lead in our pants.’ I was trying to seem tough.” Anna Kendrick describes the first time she said "Action" on the set of "Woman of the Hour." https://t.co/W43PcMDK67 pic.twitter.com/4hFC3bkWuD Director of “American Fiction,” and fellow 10 to Watch initiate, Cord Jefferson revealed how it felt entering the new world of directing on film. “I’d never directed anything before this movie,” he said. “I’d never written a movie before this movie.
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