Anna Kendrick: ‘We’ve all been alone with someone and wondered: How bad is this situation going to get?’

Did she use her understanding of trauma in directing a film with such traumatic themes? “I was acutely aware of how much I was asking of all the actors, and I don’t say that lightly,” she answers carefully. “In this film there are roles where I asked people to appear for a few days and, with very limited screen time, make the viewer fall in love with them, invest in them and worry desperately about what will happen to them happens to them. and, and then try to fight for their lives.