Name: Anna Kendrick | You Made It Weird!
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Anna Kendrick | You Made It Weird!' from Pete Holmes on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-10-16. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Anna Kendrick | You Made It Weird!' from Pete Holmes on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-10-16. Transcript available.

Anna Kendrick | You Made It Weird!

You made it weird. You made it weird. Yes, you did. You made it weird. Yeah.
You made it weird. With Pete Holmes. You made it weird. Yes, you did. You made
it weird. Yeah.
What's happening, weirdos? This is a big one. This is Anna Kendrick. I can't
believe it. She's so wonderful. She has a new movie, which I am also in, called
Woman of the Hour. It is out this Friday on Netflix. I've seen it twice now. It
is unbelievable.
It is a thriller. It's based on a true story of a serial killer that was on the
game show, The Dating Game, which is really, really interesting, really
terrifying, and fascinating.
It is thematically a really important movie, and a funny movie, and a scary
movie, and a thrilling movie. I absolutely love it, and you need to check it
out. It is on Netflix this Friday, Woman of the Hour.
You know Anna from lots and lots of things. I won't go into that. We'll just
get to this episode as quickly as possible.
So glad you guys are here. Brought to you by Modern Mammals. Go to ModernMammals.com
if you like hair that's clean but doesn't look like a bale of hay.
And if you want to see me on the road, where am I going to be? I'm going to be
in Denver. Yeah, this weekend.
This weekend I'll be in Denver at the Comedy Works, followed by Largo on
October 29th. That's going to be awesome.
Raleigh, North Carolina, Indianapolis, Seattle, Portland, Eugene, Oregon. I
believe that's sold out, actually.
Oh, and we added a second show at the Aladdin in Portland. So I hope you can be
there for the second show, Portland, on December 20th, and then Phoenix,
Arizona. All of those are available on PeteHolmes.com.
All right, everybody. Check it out. Get into it. Watch Woman of the Hour and
enjoy this wonderful episode. I'm going to say get into it again. Get into it.
Are we... Because I want to get... Who cares?
Because you want to get what? What do you want, Pete?
I want to get this on the air. I watched the movie... I deliberately watched
Woman of the Hour last night.
Oh, wow.
And because I have a five-year-old, I also had to watch the end this morning.
Very fair.
I woke up at 6.30 to finish it.
What was your act break?
My act break, when I had to turn it off, unfortunately, not only because it's
like a climax and it's a great moment, it's in the police station and she's
saying, do your fucking job.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I was like, I'm being pulled away by Parenthood.
That's right near the end, though. You made it...
I made it a good while.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You almost made it right to the end.
And I'll also say, I started watching it with Val and she had to tap out.
Oh, no. That's...
No, no, no. Val's a real softy.
No, no, no, no. That's... I...
I really... There's two things I'd like to apologize for.
One that I watched in two parts and two that I told you that my wife can't
handle a quiet play.
She can't handle anything.
Oh, no. That's so funny.
I think because I got to meet Val when you came and did ADR, there was part of
me that was like, I hope Val likes it.
No, here's the good news. Are you ready?
I hope this isn't a spoiler and if it is, we'll edit it out.
Okay.
But the first thing I said to her this morning at like 7.30 was, Val, you can
watch it.
You've already seen the worst part.
Yes, yes, yes. Yeah, it definitely opens... It kind of... I decided to do kind
of the... How dare I even make the comparison, first of all, which is I'm not
comparing, but I wanted to do the No Country for Old Men arc.
Of course.
Where it kind of like is the most violent thing happens up top and even that
isn't fully explicit, but then you kind of just can use your imagination for
the rest of the film.
No, it's brilliant. Steal from the best. I'm not saying you stole from the Coen
Brothers, but like the movie lives in the shadow of the trauma of the beginning.
Yes.
Because the beginning is like...
The beginning is really rough.
I'm not... Yeah. It's a sociopath test.
If you're like fine just eating milk beds.
Yeah.
It's not that kind of movie.
It's not that kind of movie.
Yeah, it's not graphic.
No, no, no.
Yeah.
None of it would be edited from television. It's not a slasher movie, but it's...
Well, this is what I wanted to be rolling on is I think it's so incredible.
Thank you.
I'm not just saying that.
Pete, that means a lot.
I was going to tell you, but I was like, let's do it on the air because we'd
love to promote the movie and promote you as a director.
I mean, did she... Wait, did she at least... Did she make it to your scene?
We watched my scenes. I hate to say that.
Yeah, no, of course.
I was like, I think... Well, I'm at the beginning. I'm at the end. So we
watched those two scenes.
Wait, Val came in to see your last scene too?
Yeah, I fast forwarded it. So I had seen... But I had already seen that scene
because... Was there ADR in that scene?
Yeah, I think so.
Maybe?
I don't know.
I don't know why I thought I had already seen that scene. So yes, I did the
actor thing of like, well, if you're going to leave, we're going to watch my
two scenes. And we did.
Does that say a lot about your relationship? But it's like, oh, no, no, no, the
movie's too scary for you, but you're going to sit here and watch these scenes
of me.
She wanted to.
Of course, I'm teasing.
No, but I want to say, look, I have one side about you and one side about the
movie, and it's really dealer's choice.
Let's talk about the movie.
I want you to feel seen in like, oh, I did a real, you made it weird and have
fun.
Well, let's talk about the movie because I feel like I have to at least let you
brace yourself for the fact that I'm going to end up talking about you and this
podcast at some point and my experience of it.
One of those.
I really want.
Yeah.
I want.
So I'm excited for that.
I want what I want to say as a fan of this podcast.
But like brace yourself because it almost gets creepy in places.
Can't wait.
There was a time that that would have meant more to me.
Isn't it fun?
I feel like this we've been doing this podcast long enough that my character
has had a little bit of an arc.
Wow.
And I'm happy to say as a fan of the show, that's exciting to me, but it's not
like my lifeblood.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You're not.
You're not getting like a huge dopamine hit.
A little one, but kind of like your character in the movie.
I really want to say a couple things up top.
One, it's not just a good movie, which it is, and it's not just a good script,
which it is.
It's very well directed.
Thank you.
Val just did her first short, and I'm very like in touch even more so with the
agency that her director has.
Yeah, well, I'll say that like I think that's also why I was like, I hope Val
likes the movie because she was there for ADR.
She's already mad.
She's pretty mad that I told you that she didn't watch it.
But the effectiveness of the horror at the beginning is really a compliment to
that.
Keep going.
No, but that because you mentioned, you know, like Val came into the booth with
us.
Yeah, that's right.
I couldn't hear you guys.
No, you were in the booth.
We were, whatever.
I don't know all the terms.
That's not the point.
You were behind the glass.
You were behind the glass.
We were both behind the glass.
Yeah.
Because it's glass.
It's glass that's two sides.
But you mentioned that, you know, she was preparing to direct her first thing.
Oh, right.
That was before it.
And so I was actually sitting there feeling a little bit like, oh, I have to
look like I really know what I'm doing so that, you know.
You put on a beret.
Yeah.
Big cone.
Emotionally, I put on a beret.
Yeah.
But on set too, you were, I think Val was starting to, well, she had written
her script and Val's blossoming, as you know, as a fan of the show.
And it's so fun to watch.
And then I did this movie with you and it's your first directing thing.
There was a parallel for me.
If the movie was about me, they'd go like, oh, interesting.
Oh, right, right, right.
His wife is going in this direction and then here he is.
And you were, there was not an inch of, who cares?
I wasn't scanning you for nerves.
I'm trying to compliment you that you seem so confident and assured and doing a
great job.
Well, that means, that means a lot because I was trying really hard.
You were?
To seem confident and assured.
Well, I don't know.
I guess, I guess the truth is I'm, I can't be sure at what, yeah, when I was
kind of performing confidence and when I really had confidence.
I think that there were, the funny thing was that when I would watch the dailies
back, like with my editor, when we'd be kind of looking for, for some piece or
something, I'd kind of see myself run into the frame and like give a note and
adjust some piece of set deck.
And I really did feel like, oh, that lady seems like she knows what she's doing.
Good.
Like, oh, wow.
And it was like, oh, I could tell that in that moment, I was just, there was
too much to think about that.
I couldn't help but be running on instinct.
Right.
And in those ways.
You got out of your own way.
Yes, completely.
Yeah, and you just did it.
But when I would have moments, which I certainly did, of being like, oh, what
if I'm messing this up and, you know, that I, then I'm kind of covering, but.
You had to turn it on a little bit.
Yeah, but I, but I tried, I know that I didn't always succeed, but I would try
to, if I had those moments, it was usually probably because something went a
little bit wrong and then you'd have to adjust and, you know, try to seem like,
well, this was, this was the plan all the time.
And that's really where you feel like, oh, I'm not being really honest.
And I think that people can smell that.
Yeah.
And then like, maybe even the next day, um, uh, pull, you know, the, the
necessary person aside and, and sort of say, I was, I felt embarrassed
yesterday that, um, uh, that those two first setups weren't working and we had
to change the plan and, and go back.
And, you know, um, I feel like I.
You mean you like repaired with them?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like, um.
That's cool.
Cause I guess I was like, well, I think where I would maybe have the people
around me lose faith is if I didn't acknowledge like, oh, something was going
wrong and I was trying to pretend it wasn't, but that's probably the worst
thing I could do.
It, it reminds me of parenting.
Val's always saying is all the repair.
I'll get in the car.
I love that kids from the nineties, eighties, nineties, uh, growing up, this is
not losing your shit.
But me losing my shit with Lila is I'll go, Lila, this is not acceptable.
Like I'll say that.
Oh.
And like, and then I'll have to like repair.
But like, can I say even the, like the dad voice saying like, this is not
acceptable is like.
It's freaky.
It's freaky.
I know.
I, I, I padded that because I'm still embarrassed that she'll push me past the
edge.
Of course.
In a car screaming about something and it, and it, and it's just too much.
And coffee does not help with parenting, by the way.
Sometimes people are like, do you want another coffee?
And I'm like, I'm a dad.
What are you insane?
Like if you, if you're jacked on caffeine, you're, you're a worse parent for
sure.
Okay.
You drink when you don't have enough stimulation and kids are just this
external constant.
Oh, sure.
Imagine another brain that wants you to solve all of its problems and help with
all of its stuff.
And your own.
You're bringing their adrenaline into the ecosystem.
Your, your child is your coffee, even though it's also exhausting.
So anyway, I go, that's unacceptable.
And then I feel shame.
Like maybe you did about this, uh, setup example, whether or not that's real.
But then Val always says to me, she goes, you could even say this about life.
Life is the repair.
It's not.
It's not not making the mistake.
It's repairing the mistake.
I know that sounds kind of basic, but like when you need to hear that, when you
said to
your daughter, this is unacceptable.
And then, and Lila does this horrible thing.
She cowers, even though I'm telling you, I'm saying it in wh