Anna Kendrick reveals director's harsh critique on set

When Anna Kendrick was asked about the worst comment she ever received from a director during filming, she mentioned a situation where she was embarrassed in front of a hundred extras. "I remember a director once in a room full of 100 extras or something being like, ‘Hey, on this next one just try something. Just make something up. Just improv something,'" the actress recalled.

After her improvisation, the director interrupted the shot and, again in front of everyone, said, "Oof, let’s go back to the script!" Kendrick admitted that she felt it was a deliberate action to humiliate her. "I really felt that this move was to embarrass me and gain dominance. It was very unpleasant," she added. It turned out that the scene she improvised eventually made it to the movie trailer. "And then the thing that I improved ended up in the trailer. So f(...) you!" Kendrick bluntly commented on the podcast.

The actress did not reveal the director's name or the title of the film. However, her story elicited strong reactions from the podcast audience, who responded with applause for her honesty.

Anna Kendrick recently debuted as a director with the film "Blind Date." In a conversation with "Variety," she talked about her feelings regarding this new role. "It’s a lot easier for me to talk in extreme detail about certain moments in certain scenes, or about movies that were inspirations than it is to answer the questions that come up the most frequently — ‘Why this project? Why did you want to direct?" she admitted.

Kendrick also noted the pressure of expectations on her as a female director. "I think there is a bit of an expectation that I speak quite eloquently about the unique experience of being a female director," she explained. "And then you're going, 'I've done this one time. I probably shouldn't be, like, representative of those kinds of big questions.'"