Anna Kendrick Got No-Nonsense Advice fromPitch PerfectFriendBrittany Snow Before Directing Her First Movie

Mar. 15, 2025

Brittany Snow; Anna Kendrick.Photo: Rodin Eckenroth/WireImage, Paul Morigi/Getty Images for History

Anna Kendrickturned toPitch PerfectcostarBrittany Snowfor directing advice.

While on theTodayshow Monday, Oct. 7, Kendrick told hostHoda Kotbthat Snow was one of the people she reached out to before making herdirectorial debut withWoman of the Hour, in which she also stars.

The Oscar-nominated actress admitted it was “really scary to take that step” into the director’s chair for the true-crime thriller, which premiered at the 2023Toronto International Film Festival.

“I did, I called Brittany Snow. I feel very, very lucky and grateful that thePitch Perfectgirls, we’re really family in the truest sense of the word. We’re like, ‘We didn’t choose each other, but we’re connected for life,’ " said Kendrick, 39.

She continued, “The day before we actually started filming, I was really — my confidence was so low. And I called Brittany, and I was expecting a really sugary-sweet pep talk ‘cause that’s kinda who she is. And she’s just went, ‘Anna, you’re gonna get on set and you’re gonna know what to do.’ I was like, ‘Why are you talking to me likeme? That is so rude.’ But it was also exactly what I needed to hear.”

“She kinda gave me a taste of my own medicine,” Kendrick added.

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Kendrick and Snow made threePitch Perfectfilms together between 2012 and 2017. The films also starred Rebel Wilson, Anna Camp, Alexis Knapp, Hana Mae Lee, Ester Dean, Shelley Regner, Kelley Jakle and more.

During theTodayinterview, Kendrick said, “I don’t know what I did to get so lucky to have those girls as a part of my life.”

Anna Kendrick directing on the set of “Woman of the Hour”.Leah Gallo/Netflix

Leah Gallo/Netflix

Snow, 38, made herdirectorial debut withParachute, a drama about disordered eating and body image issues that starred Courtney Eaton and Thomas Mann.

Anna Kendrick on Sept. 11, 2022.Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty

Matt Winkelmeyer/Getty

Wilson, 44, recently told PEOPLE that watching costarElizabeth Banks directPitch Perfect 2inspired her and the other cast membersto try directing. Wilson made her directorial debut with the musical-comedyThe Deb,which debuted at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival.

“Elizabeth Banks came as a first-time female director and directedPitch 2, and that just went gangbusters. And I think we, all of us girls, kind of watched that and went, ‘Huh,’ ” Wilson says. “It was inspiring to us that we could get out there and do it.”

Woman of the Houris on Netflix Oct. 18.

source: people.com