When is Benedict Cumberbatch going to begin filming Doctor Strange? He already pulled out of The Lost City of Z (Charlie Hunnam took his role) and Marvel has a November 2016 release date set aside for Doctor Strange. Considering the CGI and post-production needed for all of Marvel’s films these days, I assumed that Strange would be The Batch’s next project, that he would start filming sooner rather than later. But Benedict spoke to The Daily Mail’s gossip guy and Bendy says he’s going to spend the next few months “nesting” with his new wife. O RLY?

Benedict Cumberbatch can’t wait to prepare for the arrival of his first child – and the best role he’ll ever have, as a dad. The Oscar-nominated star told me that he’s counting the days until the awards season is over so that he and his new wife Sophie Hunter can ‘do some nesting’.

‘I’ve been on muddy fields and on horseback playing Richard III for the BBC and I’ve been on more flights to Los Angeles and back than I can count. All of that has been special, but I’m ready to have a couple of months to ourselves to prepare for the baby and do some nesting. It’s a real-life role, not a part,’ Cumberbatch told me.

Cumberbatch told me that he’s going to jealously guard his ‘nesting period’ with his wife because by late May he will be preparing to rehearse a production of Hamlet that begins previewing at the Barbican Theatre in London on August 5. The play, directed by award-winning Lyndsey Turner, boasts Cumberbatch as the Danish prince.

Although existing tickets have already sold out, producer Sonia Friedman has determined that 100 seats per performance will be made available at £10 each. Details on how to obtain these tickets will be revealed later in the spring. The Cumberbatch Hamlet will be filmed and shown at more than 550 cinemas in the UK and beamed around the world, I can reveal, on October 15, two weeks before the run ends on October 31.

‘It’s just a great way of making the play accessible,’ Cumberbatch said.

Friedman added that the NT Live initiative gives the ‘opportunity to thousands of people who are not able to see our limited run at the Barbican’. She hopes that the October 15 broadcast will be ‘an electrifying evening’ for UK audiences watching the show ‘in real time’.

[From The Daily Mail]

There’s more about the live event, but you get the idea. You will be able to see Benedict on stage, as Hamlet, on October 15th in various theaters. As for Benedict wanted to nest with Sophie… well, I guess. Sure. I thought he would be filming Doctor Strange in that time frame, but I guess he’s more focused on getting to know his wife and changing nappies.

It will be interesting to see how many pre-Oscar events Benedict and Sophie do this weekend. And I am legitimately curious to see what Sophie wears to the Oscars. Benedict is a presenter too! So we’ll definitely be seeing a lot of him on Sunday night. I’m assuming he’ll probably attend the BAFTA LA event this weekend too – most of the British actors attend that event during Oscar weekend.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

Eddie Cibrian got a job! Finally, an explanation for why LeAnn Rimes was so desperate to convince people that she was terribly ill – she needed Eddie to NOT work and stay home with her. EDDDDDIIIIEEEEE!!!! Bring me the thermometer! Make me some soup! PAY ATTENTION!! According to the trade papers, Eddie was cast in a TV sitcom vehicle for Monica Potter, who is just coming off of NBC’s Parenthood. Potter is producing the sitcom, and will star as an animal-loving woman with three ex-husbands and three children by each husband. It’s called The Kate Winslet Story. No!! Just jokes. It’s untitled for now. Eddie plays one of the ex-husbands.

Monica Potter has found the quartet of men in her sitcom life. Eddie Cibrian, Donald Faison, Josh Hopkins and Rory Scovel have joined the cast of NBC’s untitled sitcom loosely based on the “Parenthood” actress’s life with three ex-husbands, a child by each of them and a new boyfriend.

Cibrian, Faison and Scovel will play her three exes. Hopkins plays a veterinarian who is attracted to Potter’s character, Bridget, an animal lover who brings her rescues to kindly Dr. Tom.

The untitled project was written by Sherry Bilsing-Graham and Ellen Kreamer for Ellen DeGeneres’ A Very Good Production and Warner Bros. TV. Bilsing-Graham and Kreamer exec produce with DeGeneres and Very Good’s Jeff Kleeman. Potter is a producer on the pilot.

[From Variety]

According to THR, Eddie will play the first ex-husband, “a slick professional gambler. He remains slightly territorial when it comes to Bridget, even after their divorce. They share a daughter, Jessica.” (Art imitating life?) Do you think this show will get picked up? I think it might, but not because of Eddie. People really like Monica Potter and I think there are lots of people looking forward to Donald Faison’s return to sitcom glory (he is such a talented TV actor). Who knows? This could be really good for Eddie’s career.

BUT LEANN IS STILL SO SICK, you guys. She’s so sick she had to cancel her Las Vegas show this weekend. Why won’t Eddie stay home and look after her properly, you guys? SHE’S DYING.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.

The Hollywood Reporter released two more of their “brutally honest ballot” pieces yesterday. I have to admit, these two are sort of letdowns after the deliciously offensive bitchery of the first ballot, which we covered yesterday. To recap, every year THR sits down with various Oscar voters in various branches and the voters fill out their ballots in front of THR. The voters get to speak their mind under the condition of anonymity, which historically has revealed some amazing WTF-ery of petty grudges, racism and gossip. The two ballots released by THR yesterday were not all that gossipy though. There were some interesting insights, for sure. You can read Ballot #2 (a voter from short films and animation branch) here. You can read Ballot #3 (a voter from the screenwriters’ branch) here. Some highlights:

Ballot #2: the voter is an Oscar-nominated member of the animation/short film branch. Thoughts on Best Picture:

Whiplash is offensive — it’s a film about abuse and I don’t find that entertaining at all. My kid would have told me if he had an abusive teacher. I would have sat in on the class, talked to other kids in the class and then said, “This a–hole has to go.” [The Grand] Budapest [Hotel] is beautifully made, but its story just isn’t special. I didn’t think Selma was a particularly good film, apart from the main actor [David Oyelowo], and I think the outcry about the Academy being racists for not nominating it for more awards is offensive — we have a two-term president who is a black woman [Cheryl Boone Isaacs] and we give out awards to black people when they deserve them, just like any other group.

Birdman, I didn’t get it at all — I look around and it’s doing so well and I just don’t get it. American Sniper glosses over feelings — how do you feel when you kill 170 people? You just see him hesitating in the one scene with the boy who briefly picks up the rocket and then you see him sitting at a bar looking depressed; that’s not enough. As far as The Imitation Game, Alan Turing was very much defined by his repressed homosexuality, and I just don’t think the film deals with that very well. I admired Boyhood and it didn’t bore me, but it doesn’t totally work. But Theory [of Everything] I loved. It was the only one of the nominees that fully worked as a whole film — it was beautifully performed, nicely directed and it was about something — although Boyhood is pretty special for its own reasons. Just because the Academy gives you a preferential ballot with a bunch of lines doesn’t mean you have to fill them all out. Those are only two that I find worthy of the award. MY VOTE: (1) The Theory of Everything, (2) Boyhood

*This person voted for Richard Linklater for Best Director because “It’s not even close for me because I didn’t especially like the other nominees’ pictures.” The voter went with Eddie Redmayne for Best Actor because “it’s an amazing performance” and they also went for Felicity Jones for Best Actress (interesting). This voter thought Meryl Streep was “unbelievable” (in a good way) in Into the Woods and ended up voting for Meryl instead of Patricia Arquette.

[From THR]

And here are some highlights from Ballot #3, from a voter in the screenwriters’ branch.

*The voter had nothing but compliments for all of the Best Picture nominees, except they weren’t all that jazzed about Boyhood. This was their final vote: (1) The Imitation Game, (2) Birdman, (3) Whiplash, (4) The Theory of Everything, (5) American Sniper

*Best Director was between Richard Linklater and Alejandro G. Inarritu and the voter went with the crazy-ambition of Inarritu.

*Vote for Eddie Redmayne because his role was the most “transformative.” Same with Julianne Moore – this person voted for Moore because her role was the most transformative.

*Another vote for JK Simmons and Patricia Arquette even though “None of the [supporting actress nominees] blew my mind.”

[From THR]

As I said, these weren’t as gossipy as the first one. For Ballot #3, the closest we get to gossip is when this guy (??) talks about how he like American Sniper and he didn’t think the “attacks” on the film were “legitimate” because at the end of the day, it’s not a documentary. Blah. I thought Ballot #2 shows (yet again) how Selma really irritated Oscar voters and the Academy really doesn’t like to be called out on their racist BS. Too bad.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

I’ve got a hodge-podge of Kimye news for you guys. Aren’t you the lucky ones? Let’s start with Kanye West. Kanye has been attending lots of NYFW shows this week, obviously. He was 15 minutes late arriving to the Jeremy Scott show, and according to Us Weekly, “He was immediately flanked by photographers and while he posed for cameras, the rapper refused to smile. His demeanor changed, however, during the runway show, when the observer tells Us he flashed a big grin at the designs.” Also attending the Jeremy Scott show? New York Fashion Week creator Fern Mallis. You might recognize her from her appearances on Project Runway. The NY Post asked Mallis what she thought of Kanye entering the New York Fashion Week world as a designer and her reply is… in line with Kelly Cutrone.

The one-and-only creator of Fashion Week, Fern Mallis, was at Wednesday’s Jeremy Scott show, along with the ubiquitous Kanye West, who sported a maroon hoodie and two bodyguards who blocked the hoi polloi from his greatness. While fans swarmed the singer/wannabe fashion designer, Mallis remained unimpressed.

“I’m kind of over Kanye,” she said. “I mean, I’m not a fan of his music, and the attitude and the agenda is not my style.”

[From the NY Post]

I find it interesting that some big-name people in the New York fashion world are publicly sniffing about Kanye. I tend to think the reaction to Kanye in the Paris fashion world is a bit different. Kanye might be seen as more of a circus act, and God knows, the Paris designers probably love shilling their product to oblivious Americans. Speaking of, Kanye’s BFF Riccardo Tisci (the designer for Givenchy) has a new interview with Details – you can read the full piece here. He name-checks Kim and Kanye, but the whole piece is a really good read. Here’s the big Kimye part:

DETAILS: You often post #family along with your Instagram photos of famous friends. How do you forge authentic friendships with them?
Tisci: They feel that I’m not there to dress a celebrity. I dress people even when they don’t have an Oscar nomination or they don’t have an album out. If they’re my friends, I respect them to the end. And you need to feel people stay with you because they love you, not only as an artist, but also as a human being. Look at Kanye and Kim—at the beginning, I was the only one.

DETAILS: Kim wasn’t always accepted in the fashion community.
Tisci: By nobody. And she’s a sweet girl. And Kanye and me, we did it together. Every designer is dying to dress her now. I didn’t care what people thought about Kim. In the beginning, I met her because of my respect for Kanye, and then I liked her a lot and we became friends. I got killed because of this. But I didn’t care. That is a friend, you see. And this is why, when they got married, they asked me to dress them. They say, “You’ve always been with us. You’ve been a real friend.” If I like somebody, I like somebody. If I don’t like somebody, I don’t like somebody.

[From Details]

Ha, “nobody” respected Kim. “I got killed because of this” – because he dared to dress Kim and befriend her. Yeah. It’s not really a ringing endorsement, and the subtext is that Kanye and Riccardo worked as Henry Higgins and Col. Pickering to “Eliza Doolittle” Kim into something that would somewhat presentable. Poor Kim. She’s just their Barbie doll.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.

Does Princess Beatrice fly under the radar, or do most people just not care enough to track her movements? Beatrice has never and will never get the same level of scrutiny as Prince William, Harry or Duchess Kate. But Beatrice, 26 years old, is still sixth in line to the throne (until Kate gives birth in April) and it would be interesting if she could find her niche in the world and in public life. Prince Charles wants to downgrade his brothers and their children from public life, and Beatrice and Eugenie rarely get high-profile royal work at this point. As such, both princesses have taken various “jobs” that just seem like high-profile internships for the well-connected.

In January 2014, Beatrice took a position with Sony Pictures. She was being paid £20,000 to be a “coordinating producer at the firm’s London offices.” She quietly quit that job in December, in the middle of the Sony Hack. I missed this story when it came out a few weeks ago, sorry. Since leaving the position, Beatrice has not gotten another job. Instead, she’s gone a series of holidays. First she went to a Siss ski chalet with her dad and some friends. Then she went to St. Barts with her boyfriend, Dave Clark. Then she returned to England for a few weeks, then she and Dave flew back to St. Barts. And right now, she’s vacationing with her sister and her cousin Harry at another Swiss ski resort. Read this shade from the Daily Mail:

Clearly not fussed by her public image as workshy, Princess Beatrice is enjoying her fourth holiday in just over a month. Joined by Prince Harry and her sister Princess Eugenie, the 26-year-old jetsetter has returned to the upmarket Swiss ski resort of Verbier, which she last visited in December after quitting her £20,000-a-year job at Sony Entertainment Pictures. She flew off to the Caribbean twice in January, too.

The royal cousins are thought to be enjoying the amenities of Prince Andrew and his former wife Sarah Ferguson’s £13 million luxury chalet. The seven-bedroom property, complete with indoor swimming pool and a staff of six, was purchased by Beatrice’s parents shortly before Christmas.

Beatrice, the sixth in line to the throne, celebrated New Year’s Eve on the Caribbean island of St Barts with her boyfriend of seven years, Virgin Galactic executive Dave Clark, 32. She then returned to St Barts at the end of January, prompting critics to label her a ‘benefits scrounger’. In response, Beatrice’s friends protested that she was soon to accept another job offer.

A Buckingham Palace spokesman says: ‘We would not comment on the time that Princess Beatrice or her family spend privately.’

[From The Daily Mail]

When I see the Mail using the word “workshy” to describe someone other than Duchess Kate or Prince William, I tend to wonder if William’s press office had a hand in it. Yes, William hasn’t worked in more than two months. But hey, at least he’s not taking four vacations in two months! And hey, at least he’s throwing his cousin under the bus.

But should we label Beatrice with the same “workshy” label that we give to Kate and Will? She is sort of a benefits scrounger too – she still lives in the Royal Lodge of Windsor Castle, and she has a four-bedroom apartment at St. James Palace. If you live in a castle, you must work. I think that should apply to all of the princes and princesses.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Eddie Murphy was one of many former Saturday Night Live stars who came back to the show for the 40th anniversary special on Sunday. This was notable as it was Eddie’s first return to SNL in 30 years. As part of his return, Murphy was asked by writer Steve Higgins to play Bill Cosby in a Jeopardy sketch. The bit would show Cosby mixing drinks for the “Potent Potables” category, with the pretense that it was taped prior to the news breaking that Cosby regularly drugged and raped women. According to SNL staple Norm McDonald, Murphy refused to play Cosby, even after multiple other people tried to convince him. That segment was ultimately performed by Kenan Thompson. Here’s a summary, thanks to Rolling Stone:

As Macdonald revealed on Twitter, that cameo was originally written for Murphy, who – after a few days of being pursued by Macdonald, Michaels and even director Brett Ratner (the latter serving as an intermediary for the comic) – decided not to appear in the sketch.

“Murphy knew the laughs would bring the house down. Eddie Murphy knows what will work on SNL better than anyone. Eddie decides the laughs are not worth it. He will not kick a man when he is down,” Macdonald wrote. “Eddie Murphy, I realize, is not like the rest of us. Eddie does not need the laughs. Eddie Murphy is the coolest, a rock star even in a room with actual rock stars.”

[From Rolling Stone]

The phrase “kick a man while he is down” is McDonald’s interpretation of Murphy’s refusal to play Cosby. It’s possible that Murphy never said this, or that his reason for not playing Cosby was just to avoid controversy. I don’t know why I’m giving Murphy the benefit of the doubt, it’s probably about some misplaced respect for Cosby. We know now that Cosby is an unapologetic rapist who committed horrendous crimes. Cosby’s fortune was achieved with a false nice guy persona which also helped him get away with violating countless women for decades. Now he’s using his wealth to attack his victims. He’s not “down,” he just in a defensive stance. The fact that he issued a statement about this story speaks volumes. Cosby said “I am very appreciative of Eddie and I applaud his actions.” Bill Cosby should STFU. Getting made fun of on television is absolutely nothing compared to what he inflicted on an average night, and yet somehow he’s still trying to play the victim.

Photo credit: WENN.com

Iggy Azalea’s Twitter existence has never been a peaceful one. Before she was famous, Iggy threw plenty of shade that hip hop fans dug up after the fact. She didn’t stop after hitting the big time. Iggy ended up (bizarrely) feuding with Snoop Dogg and (rightfully) schooling Eminem for his rape lyrics. She stirred up plenty of trouble for dismissing her “patronizing” critics and refusing to “play hip hop squares.”

There have been more feuds, but let’s get down to the matter. Iggy actually isn’t in the wrong for her latest round of news. She went on vacation with boyfriend Nick Young, and she got papped (long range) in a bikini. You can see those photos here. The internet got really ugly, really fast over these photos. People ganged up on Iggy for daring to show a little cellulite. So now she’s quit Twitter with a series of statements:

(1) Just got back from a great vacation, came online and saw apparently it’s shocking and unheard of to be a woman and have cellulite. Lol.

(2) I just want to have peace and relaxation time without a perve with long distance lense hiding out taking pictures, everyone deserves peace.

(3) I feel the hatred and pettiness i see online at all times is at making me become an angry person and I cannot be that.

(4) To become nasty because of the way I feel iam treated would be a disservice to my fans and I promise i will try to keep smiling.

(5) But I also want to let my fans know iam taking some time away from social media. I need to be happy and it is too negative and draining.

(6) The Internet is the ugliest reflection of man kind there is.

[From Iggy Azalea on Twitter]

Iggy says she’s turned over all of her social media accounts to her management, which is a wise move. I don’t know how long this hiatus will last. Celebrities “quit” Twitter all the time and come back a few days later. It’s a very hard habit to kick. Even Chrissy Teigen returned after receiving death threats. Chrissy lasted a whole week. Since Iggy put her team in charge, I think she’ll last longer but not forever. If her people are wise, they’ll change the password so she won’t be tempted to jump into the next controversy. But Iggy didn’t deserve to be body shamed. Twitter should be ashamed of itself, but I know it’s not.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet & WENN

About a year ago, Hilary Duff announced the end of her marriage to former hockey star Mike Comrie. They’d been married for three years and in counseling for half of that time. But the anger seemed to cool off. Neither Hilary nor Mike has filed for divorce. They’re seen together all the time and even Christmas shopped together.

This must be one of the strangest celebrity splits in awhile. To be honest, I’ve wondered whether they “split” as publicity for Hilary’s music comeback that didn’t happen. Sorta like Hilary giving a stern warning to the paps to leave her alone, but then she dropped the issue. There are shades of a conscious uncoupling because Hilary and Mike hang out all the time. I don’t know if they’re living apart or not. Maybe they’re staying together with an open marriage? Mike seems to think he’s available, or perhaps that was the liquor talking. The Mail has a new story about Mike trying to pay a waitress $600 to sleep with him. He showed up tipsy to Mastro’s steakhouse, drank all night, and things got bad:

It doesn’t look as though on-again off-again couple Hilary Duff and Mike Comrie will be on again any time soon after his drunken night at a famous LA eatery.And Mike wasn’t out for just a night of boozing. He was looking to hook up. And he was willing to pay for it.

Eyewitnesses at the famous steakhouse Mastro’s in Beverly Hills, tell Daily Mail Online exclusively that the retired hockey player spent most of the evening of January 30th, drinking, alienating his friends and propositioning bar patrons and staff for sex.

“I watched him as he blatantly and repeatedly hit on his waitress. I’m sure she was extremely embarrassed because other customers and staff saw this. She handled it well, remaining kind and professional. It became a bit creepy. Even his buddy tried to dial him back a bit. Mike just wouldn’t let up with the flirting. It became a bit creepy. Even his buddy tried to dial him back a bit.

“Mike wanted to wait for her until her shift was over and take her out,” one eyewitness reveals. “She told him nicely that she was not available, that she was in a relationship, but that didn’t phase him. He kept insisting, sometimes loudly, that he wanted to wait until she got off work.

‘Mike’s pal had left an hour or so before. So he’d been just drinking alone for a while and then as the restaurant was closing for the night, Mike approaches this woman at the bar. She is clearly sitting with her boyfriend or husband. Mike ignores the guy completely and starts talking to the woman.

“It’s clear that Mike was confused and very drunk now. The couple suggested, in almost a caring tone for the guy, that he should return to his table. Mike would not go to his table. Instead, he reaches into his wallet and pulls out hundreds of dollars. He asked the nice woman at the bar, ‘Ok. How much? How much do you want? I have as much as you need. How much for sex? Name your price. How much do you want to have sex with me?”

[From Daily Mail]

Mike then got aggressive with the woman’s boyfriend, and restaurant security stepped in and sent Mike packing. They called him a cab and directed the driver to take him home (not to another bar).

Ugh, what a sloppy mess. The witnesses indicate that Mike seemed confused when he pulled out his wallet, which implies he’s done this before in another setting. Are he and Hilary together, or have they broken up again? Either way, this can’t be pleasant for her. Comrie and his liquor sound like a disaster in the making.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet & WENN

I sort of ignored Jamie Dornan’s wife Amelia Warner during the Fifty Shades of Grey promotional tour the last few weeks. Amelia was around, of course, and she walked several of the red carpets with Jamie, but most sites just ran the photos of Jamie, Dakota Johnson, Sam Taylor Johnson and EL James. It was also pretty clear that EL, Dakota and Sam were coordinating their looks for every red carpet and Amelia wasn’t invited to participate. Is that weird? Eh. In any case, Jamie and Amelia seemed pretty tight. They have a 14-month-old baby and Jamie has said lovely things about his wife and his family life in all of his interviews. But Star Magazine says it’s all a ruse! Their sources say Amelia is struggling with Jamie’s newfound fame and omnipresence.

Christian Grey may be used to getting what he wants, but Jamie Dornan isn’t so lucky. The Fifty Shades of Grey actor has been on cloud nine since landing the coveted role, but he’s having a hard time balancing his sexy new image with his quiet home life. Star has learned that Jamie’s wife, musician Amelia Warner, has developed major trust issues since the movie’s hype began, and their marriage could be headed for some serious trouble!

Jamie has been spending much of his time in the spotlight bragging about his gorgeous wife and their 14-month-old daughter, Dulcie, and although his rep denies any trouble, close sources to the Northern Irish actor say his constant gushing is just a cover-up for their increasing tension.

“Amelia didn’t love the idea of him doing such a sexually charged movie,” explains an insider. “But he said it would skyrocket his career. He tried to assure her nothing would change between them.”

But on the heels of the film’s box-office-record-breaking Valentine’s Day release, Amelia still isn’t on board. “Women all over the world now lust after Jamie,” the pal adds. “It upsets her to know that she has quietly sit by and watch him receive all this unwanted attention.”

For now, friends of the pair say there’s been no talk of an official split, especially because their daughter is so young “Jamie is desperate to keep his family together,” the insider reveals. “He’s trying to placate Amelia by talking so sweet about her in the press.”

But only time will tell if his tactics will work. “They’ve had several fights about him choosing his career over her,” the pal dishes. “And the fact that he’s already signed on for two more movies could prove to be the final straw.”

[From Star Magazine]

It really wouldn’t surprise me either way, you know? I think this kind of sudden stardom/media attention would be difficult for any couple to weather, and if Amelia is having adjustment issues, she wouldn’t be the first. But I kind of buy it when Jamie says nice things about his family – I really do believe that he adores his wife and baby and that he’s still racked with insecurities about his acting career. Jamie’s rep went to Gossip Cop and said this story is “utter rubbish” for what it’s worth.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Anna Kendrick has a decent interview and editorial in the new edition of pret-a-porter.com’s online magazine, The Edit. You can see the full editorial and interview here. She’s promoting her musical role in The Last Five Years, based on the stage musical. I think that’s the film where there are no speaking parts? Every line of dialogue is sung? I think so. As I’ve been saying, I really like Kendrick these days and I think she’s about to take it to the next level. It won’t necessarily be with this film, but I’m expecting Pitch Perfect 2 to make crazy money and be a gigantic success. It would make me happy if Kendrick was the big movie star of the year, you know? Here are some highlights from The Edit:

Her heroines: “Women who are willing to show themselves and be honest, and be a little ugly”, namely comediennes such as Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Amy Schumer, Chelsea Peretti and friend Aubrey Plaza. “I love it when people don’t want things to be polite and comfortable. Sometimes I catch myself self-censoring in that way, where it feels like I’m being kind of edgy and subversive, but I know that I’m not; I know that I’m playing it safe.”

Why she’s so active on Twitter: “I love seeing what people respond to and think is funny; it’s kind of a puzzle. Trying to express yourself in 140 characters can be this little word game,” she explains. Kendrick regularly puts her tweets through multiple drafts before sending them out into the ether. “Some people play Candy Crush; I try to perfect my tweets.”

Is she pretending to be “normal”? “I guess, maybe… It feels dishonest to me to let anybody in the world think that my farts smell like lavender, or something.”

She cater-waiter’d to make ends meet in the early days: “I kept wishing, when I got these jobs that were barely enough to keep me afloat, could they just keep me a little more afloat? Maybe a little more than the bare minimum I need to keep the lights on?”

She only got rid of her waitress uniform two years ago: “It was this underlying sense of, ‘Well, I definitely have to keep those, in case I need the extra cash.”

Aging in the industry: “I know that things will be more complicated as an older actress, in ways that I can’t anticipate, but I would really enjoy getting to the point where the reason I’m getting roles or not isn’t based on if somebody thinks I’m hot enough. I feel like I’ve always been a character actress, and this is a blip in my career where I’m playing the ingénue. I’ll be a lot more comfortable and get excited when I’m playing women who aren’t supposed to be pretty.”

[From The Edit]

That’s very smart for Anna to approach her career like, “I’m a character actress at heart.” Too many young actresses don’t realize that about themselves. I think Anna will end up having a lengthy career because of it, although she’s probably got another six to seven years of playing the ingénue or the “girlfriend” or the hot girl. As for her lavender farts…obviously, her farts smell of sunshine and musical theater summer camp.

Here’s the latest trailer for Pitch Perfect 2. YAASSSS.

Photos courtesy of Victor Demarchelier/The Edit.