Anna Kendrick Keeps Forgetting She Was In Twilight

Anna Kendrick has a fuzzy memory of her Twilight days. On a recent episode of the Call Her Daddy podcast, the actor recalled starring in the teen vampire franchise and referred to a “silly, funny tweet” she posted in 2018 in which she confessed, “Holy sh*t. I just remembered I was in Twilight.”

Speaking to host Alex Cooper, Kendrick said fans were shocked. “People were like, ‘Wait. You didn’t really forget that you were in Twilight.’ And the answer is truly yes and no. Because, obviously, obviously, I didn’t forget the experience of making the movies.”

She continued, “Everybody would talk about trying to find the next Twilight or whatever. I would find myself in business conversations talking about, ‘Oh, yeah. I’ve heard that there’s a book series that just got optioned that we maybe wanna try and make it the next Twilight.’ And then I would be like, ‘Oh my god, I’m in that.’”

Kendrick played Jessica Stanley in The Twilight Saga, a friend of Kristen Stewart’s main character. The film franchise, which was adapted from Stephenie Meyer’s same-named book series, had five installments — 2008’s Twilight, 2009’s New Moon, 2010’s Eclipse, 2011’s Breaking Dawn Part 1, and 2012’s Breaking Dawn Part 2.

Despite the huge success of the series — grossing more than $3.3 billion globally — Kendrick told Cooper she always felt “on the outside” of the intense fan hype experienced by her co-stars.

“I was really lucky to not be dealing with the eye of the storm,” she said. “I think that a lot of the folks that were in the movie, even in the later movies, as long as you were a supernatural character, if you had one line, you couldn’t leave your hotel room.”

Recalling her time filming the movies in a supporting role, she added, “I just had to show up and say dumb, funny sh*t. Just be like, ‘What are you guys talking about? You’re f*cking acting weird. OK, everybody’s really serious. Bye.’ Like, that was the gig. It was awesome.”

One Aspect Of Filming Was “Miserable”

Four years ago, Kendrick recalled working on Twilight in an interview with Vanity Fair, revealing that filming the movies in Portland, Oregon, was a “cold and miserable” experience.

“I just remember my Converse being completely soaked through and feeling like, ‘You know, this is a really great group of people and I’m sure that we would be friends at a different time, but I want to murder everyone,’” she joked to the magazine.