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.