Enough is enough? It looks like Anna Kendrick is sick of singing after being part in a lot of musicals after her role in "Pitch Perfect"
Anna Kendrick became a singing sensation when she brought her quirky cup game to "Pitch Perfect". Since then, roles in musicals have come her way and she's had enough of it.
"I never want to sing again, honestly. It's hard as fuck. The Pitch Perfect [sequel] is going to be fine, ten girls have to be able to sing the songs so it's going to be fine, but doing The Last Five Years and then Into the Woods straight away, I was like, I don't want to have to think about my voice so much. I want to be able to drink beer whenever I want....Honestly, after Pitch Perfect I wouldn't have ever wanted to do a musical. I would have intentionally tried not to do a musical, but when it's The Last Five Years and Into the Woods, you can't really say no." she told to Yahoo!,
Anna Kendrick has a number of musicals coming up but it's highly unlikely this exhaustion means the end of Kendrick's musical career.
Anna Kendrick has been performing in musicals professionally since 1998, when she made her Broadway debut in "High Society" at the age of 13. So it is probable that while she was exhausted from singing so much, she is used to it.
Following "Pitch Perfect", Anna Kendrick was cast in the Walt Disney Pictures' big budgeted adaptation of Steven Sondheim and James Lapine's "Into the Woods". Set for Cinderella, Kendrick joined an ensemble that includes Jake Gyllenhaal, Chris Pine, Johnny Depp and Meryl Streep, as Tracey Ullman, Lucy Punch, Christine Baranski and James Corden.
After "Into the Woods", Anna Kendrick was included in "The Last Five Years", an adaptation of an Off-Broadway musical that centers on the blossoming and eventual wilting of the romantic relationship between a struggling actress named Cathy, and an aspiring novelist names Jamie. Told from two perspectives, the man's begins at the beginning, moving forward, while the woman's starts at the end, progressing back.
What made this challenging for Anna Kendrick is that the entire film is sung so there is no spoken dialogue. Secondly, all of the songs were recorded live, as opposed to pre-recorded in a studio and then lipsynced to on set. This means every take demanded her to sing at full force. Her co-star Jeremy Jordan explained:
"This we did almost all live, because you have to, because the entire story is told through song. You either do that, or have a week of rehearsal and record it and then you're stuck with these choices and you film it and you can't even explore it and try new things. Because you've already done this one way of singing it, you can't sing it another way, and that might have turned out great, but this gave us so much freedom."
