Anna Kendrick: I’m Short, He’s Old

LA Times did a great editorial on Anna Kenrick who co-stars with George in Up In the Air.  Here’s the portions mentioning George.  You can read the rest on Anna here.

It wasn’t until she was out for a celebratory lunch with Reitman after reading for and winning the part that she found out he knew her work, and that her costar would be Clooney. Neither fact comforted her.

“I spent every day from the moment I won the part sure I was about to be fired,” she says. “First it was the costume fitting, then the camera test, and then the table read. Each day was the day I knew they would realize they actually wanted Evan Rachel Wood. Then the first day on set,” she continues, “I showed up with a cold and I thought no one would like me because I’m the girl who showed up sick, and George told me to have chicken soup and to listen to him because he had played a doctor on TV. And I thought, ‘It will all be all right.’ ” Within a few days, “he called me short, I called him old, and that was the foundation that set the tone just to kid around with each other.”

The joking was largely limited to time onset. While Clooney gamely offered to set her up on blind dates, Kendrick’s days off were spent flying from “Up in the Air’s” Midwest set to Vancouver, Canada, where she was reprising her role as Jessica for the “Twilight” sequel “New Moon.” “It was sort of fun because Natalie is so rigid,” Kendrick says, “and I got to go and play the silliest girl on the planet, so it was getting to run and jump and play a little.”

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