Anna Kendrick, 29, is a good time. She's like the irreverent girl in your improv class—the one who curses and tweets about sex and Ryan Gosling. But the woman's also a full-fledged star smack in the middle of her biggest year yet. (That's saying a lot considering she's previously been nominated for an Oscar for Up in the Air and a Tony for High Society…and then there was Twilight and that "Cups" song too.) Kendrick has six films scheduled to come out this year, including Happy Christmas. Luckily, as we found out chatting on her lunch break from filming Pitch Perfect 2, she's as real as ever.
GLAMOUR: OK, first of all, do you sleep? You've been doing so many projects back-to-back. What's it like having to constantly switch between all these different personalities?
ANNA KENDRICK: It's really fun. It's like eating Cheerios every morning and then switching to Froot Loops. It's exciting to eat Froot Loops!
GLAMOUR: How's Pitch Perfect 2 going so far?
AK: [Laughs.] We didn't get the finale music till last night, so we're all a little panicked. But…it'll be great, right?
GLAMOUR: Totally. In Happy Christmas you play a woman living with her brother, his wife, and their toddler. You guys didn't use a script?
AK: Yeah. There was an outline, so we'd have an idea of what day it was. But we wore our own clothes, did our own makeup. It was an experience unlike any other I've ever had and probably ever will again.
GLAMOUR: You killed it on Saturday Night Live earlier this year. We're still talking about your digital short "Dongs All Over the World."
AK: Thank you! There was a moment when they worried it was too provocative. But even though it's silly, there's a pro-sex, feminist message in it somewhere. Like, if Justin Timberlake gets to say "Dick in a Box," then we get to say, "Dongs All Over the World."
GLAMOUR: I think one of the things that everyone loves about you is how normal you seem. But your life is so not normal. I saw this pop-up ad online recently that says something like "12 Stars You'd Never Guess Are Incredibly Small," and your face was next to it. Is it weird having people comment on things like your appearance?
AK: The thing is, my appearance—that's never been my moneymaker. I'm fine being small. I'm fine being all the things I am. And I'm happy I'm not supposed to be on the 50 Most Beautiful list all the time, because that would be super f--king stressful.
GLAMOUR: How else is Hollywood life complicated?
AK: Sometimes I just want to wear the same outfit for three days in a row. And I kind of can't.
GLAMOUR: Well, you are rocking those clothes from the shoot. Do you have any rules for how to dress for your body type?
AK: Well, in sample sizes, the dresses can be hemmed, but I can't wear pants. Every time a stylist tries to put me in, like, a chic pantsuit, I'm like, "This isn't gonna work. It's going to look like a diaper. I know you think that you can do it; I promise you, you can't." So I appreciate stores that have petites sections.
GLAMOUR: How tall are you anyway?
AK: Five-two-ish. There's actually a girl in this movie who's smaller. So everyone's excited for me, that I'm not the smallest one.
