Anna Kendrick made her feature-length directorial debut with the film: Women of the Daymovie based on movie true story of serial killer Rodney Alcala. She also stars in the film as a character inspired by Cheryl Bradshaw, who narrowly escaped Alcala’s violence after encountering him on the series. Flirting Game In the 1970s. Before the money started flowing in after the film was acquired by Netflix, Kendrick made a conscious choice to direct some of the proceeds to charities and organizations.

“I kind of asked myself the question: ‘Do you feel gross about this?'” Kendrick shared on Sirius XM. Crime Junkie AF podcast. “So did I.” The realization came late in the process. The film was nearing completion and was scheduled to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2023. “The week before TIFF I thought, ‘Oh, the movie will make money,'” he said. “I went from being like, ‘Let me know when there’s a movie,’ to being like, ‘Oh my God, I’m responsible for this.’ … We barely made it to the deadline to get into TIFF, and then we were like, ‘Oh, money’s going to change hands.'”

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Kendrick donated his salary National Network on Rape, Abuse and Incest (RAINN) and National Center for Victims of Violent Crime. “It’s still a complicated area, but I felt like I had to at least do it,” he said. “Believe me, this was never a money-making venture for me because all the resources went into making the movie.”

Woman of the Day It marked a particularly significant evolution in Kendrick’s relationship with true crime as a genre. “I guess I could consider myself a more casual consumer of true crime. “And then when something went wrong in a long-term relationship I was in, I really became kind of obsessed,” he said. “It really changed how I consumed true crime. But either way, the plot of the movie is really gripping, but I also wanted to bring some of that emotional DNA throughout the movie.” “I was hoping too.”

Earlier this month, Kendrick said: Rolling stone: “’What’s going on inside Rodney’s head?’ There was a pull in that direction. Can we go in there? Is this interesting?’” Kendrick says. “It’s such a mirror of my own experience that (I think), ‘What’s going on with him? Maybe if I could understand how his brain works. ‘I would find a solution.’ I realized that temptation would creep in and that I needed to recognize the pattern and push it away.

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