Jason Reitman’s adaptation of Walter Kirn’s novel ‘Up in the Air’ features Anna Kendrick as the female lead. Does the name sound vaguely familiar? Her most recent onscreen appearance was in a small role in Twilight where she played Bella’s high school friend, Jessica. She also acted in Rocket Science where her performance was called ‘career-making’ by one critic. However, this new role in Reitman’s follow-up to Juno could be the perfect platform to launch her career in the film-making industry.
Kendrick was cast in the role after a series of auditions which sources say involved almost all young actresses in Hollywood, with Ellen Page and Emily Blunt being on the list.
She will star opposite George Clooney who plays the part of Ryan Bingham, a man with a simple goal – to accumulate one million miles in his frequent flyer account. She travels around the firing circuit with Bingham [played by Clooney] to learn the system she wants to revolutionize.
Playing Clooney’s love interest in ‘Up in the Air’, Kendrick plays a prim and proper girl who pitches webcam firings as a cost-effective manner of handling downsizing matters. Her ponytail in the movie will, of course, be the tightest you have ever seen! Kendrick says, “Oh God, thankfully I am not responsible for that. That pony tail looks so simple, and I swear to God, they spent half an hour on it every day. There was teasing and stuff involved. It looks like it should have been really easy but I hated that pony tail by the end of the shoot.”