The actor talks about channeling her own trauma in directorial debut about 1970s serial killer Rodney Alcala, once a contestant on 'The Dating Game.'
does it through her films — and in heartbreakingly poignant form. Her latest foray into understanding her own trauma comes in her directorial debut, the thrillerRodney Alcala, a photographer who spent years assaulting young girls, boys, and women, with impunity. Kendrick, who also stars, plays Sheryl, an aspiring actor who is cast opposite Alcala on an episode of the TV game show.
“I felt like the question in the air for a lot of Sheryl’s story is ‘Hang on, do you see me as human or something else?’’” says Kendrick, adding that the scenes where there was violence or the threat of violence didn’t feel foreign to her. “It’s this nameless, amorphous threat that’s in the room all the time — but you can’t fight it if you can’t even really find it.”, but she threw her hat in the ring to direct when a scheduling conflict led the original director to drop out just before filming.
THE CAST AND CREW’S dedication to crafting a victim-centered narrative brought Kendrick to tears during our talk. She laughs at herself while crying, saying that after filming, one of the actors said, “It’s really nice when you’d finish a take and Anna would be crushed,” and the other actors agreed. “There was this pull toward, ‘What’s going on inside of Rodney’s head? Can we get in there? Is that interesting?’” says Kendrick. “It’s such a fucking mirror of my own experience, , ‘What the hell was going on with him? Maybe if I could just figure out how his brain worked. I’d find resolution.’ I found that temptation would creep in, and I’d have to notice that pattern and push it away.”
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