Anna Kendrick has revealed that a private expertise with emotional abuse helped her to higher join with a new position she’s taking part in.
Speaking to People, Kendrick, 37, opened up about her expertise taking part in ‘Alice’ within the new psychological drama film, Alice, Darling.
The film is about to premiere on the Toronto Film Festival on September 9.
“I was coming out of a personal experience with emotional abuse and psychological abuse,” she shared.
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“I think my rep sent [the film script] to me, because he knew what I’d been dealing with and sent it along. Because he was like, ‘This sort of speaks to everything that you’ve been talking to me about.'”
Alice, Darling, which was written by Alanna Francis, follows Alice, a lady caught in an emotionally abusive relationship to her profitable boyfriend, Simon. Throughout the film, Alice slowly unravels as a results of the thoughts video games Simon performs on her, and it is her associates who strive to intervene to assist.
Kendrick added that the film itself truly introduced her a form of solace.
“It felt really distinct in that I had, frankly, seen a lot of movies about abusive or toxic relationships, and [this film] didn’t really look like what was happening to me,” she mentioned.
“It kind of helped me normalise and minimise what was happening to me, because I thought, ‘Well, if I was in an abusive relationship, it would look like that.’ “
Kendrick went on to describe the previous relationship, and the gaslighting and torment she skilled on the hand of her beloved one.
“I was in a situation where I loved and trusted this person more than I trusted myself,” she defined, “So when that person is telling you that you have a distorted sense of reality and that you are impossible and that all the stuff that you think is going on is not going on, your life gets really confusing really quickly.”
In the tip, Kendrick says she did get her a-hah second, when on the breakdown of the connection she found that every one of her preliminary ideas have been right.
“I had the unique experience of finding out that everything I thought was going on was in fact going on. So I had this kind of springboard for feeling and recovery that a lot of people don’t get.”
Kendrick, like so many home abuse survivors and victims, says she nonetheless feels guilt after the very fact.
“My body still believes that it was my fault,” she mentioned. “So even with this concrete jumping off point for me, to walk out of that relationship knowing that I wasn’t crazy, it’s incredible the way that recovery has been so challenging.”
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