Lower than every week forward of the world premiere of her newest movie, “Alice, Darling,” phrase comes that Anna Kendrick is stepping behind the digital camera. Deadline reviews that the Oscar-nominated actress will make her directorial debut with “The Relationship Sport.” She’ll additionally star in and produce the true crime pic.
Beforehand titled “Rodney & Sheryl,” “The Relationship Sport” is “based mostly on the stranger-than-fiction true story of Cheryl Bradshaw, who was a bachelorette on the hit 70s TV matchmaking present ‘The Relationship Sport’ and selected good-looking and humorous bachelor primary, Rodney Alcala. However behind Alcala’s charming façade was a lethal secret: he was a psychopathic serial killer,” the supply teases.
“I’ve beloved this script from the second I learn it,” Kendrick stated. “And whereas I used to be clearly thrilled to be enjoying the character of Sheryl, I felt so linked to the story, the tone, and the themes round gender and intimacy, that when the chance got here as much as direct the movie, I jumped at it. It feels meant to be.”
“Watcher’s” Chloe Okuno was initially connected to direct.
“Alice, Darling” debuts on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition September 11. The drama a couple of girl in an abusive relationship marks Mary Nighy’s characteristic debut. Kendrick not too long ago shared her private expertise of being emotionally abused and defined why the movie’s story resonated together with her.
In 2010 Kendrick acquired an Oscar nod for her supporting function in “Up within the Air.” Her different credit embody the “Pitch Good” franchise, which grossed almost $600 million worldwide, and “A Easy Favor,” a darkish comedy with a sequel on the way in which.
Supply: Women And Hollywood