Anna Kendrick Donated Her Pay from New MovieWoman of the Hourto Victims of Violent Crime: 'The Least I Should Do'

Mar. 15, 2025

Anna Kendrick on Oct. 22, 2024.Photo:Jason Mendez/Getty

Jason Mendez/Getty

Anna Kendrickis sharing why she decided to donate the money she made from her new movie.

As Kendrick, 39, appeared on the Friday, Oct. 25episodeof Sirius XM’sCrime Junkie AFpodcast to promote her new true crime movieWoman of the Hour, the actress noted that she decided to donate her salary from the movie to theRape, Abuse & Incest National Network(RAINN) and theNational Center for Victims of Violent Crimeafter Netflix purchased the movie following its premiere at the 2023Toronto Film Festival.

“Believe me, this was never a money-making venture for me, because all the resources went to actually making the movie,” Kendrick explained, as she recalled taking the movie to TIFF last year.

“It wasn’t until the week before TIFF that I thought ‘oh, the movie is going to make money,’ " she recalled. “I went from being like, ‘Let me know when the movie happens,’ to being like, ‘Oh god I am responsible for this,’ and then it was making the movie, making the movie, we just barely made the deadline to get into TIFF, and then it was like, ‘Oh, there’s money gonna be exchanging hands,’ and I sort of asked myself the question, ‘Do you feel gross about this?’ And I did.”

“I’m not making money off the movie,” Kendrick clarified. “The money is going to or has gone to RAINN and the National Center for Victims of Violent Crime. It’s still a complicated area but that felt like the least that I should do.”

Tony Hale (left), Anna Kendrick and Daniel Zovatto in ‘Woman of the Hour’.Leah Gallo/Netflix

Leah Gallo/Netflix

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The movie, which also starsTony Hale, Daniel Zovatto, Nicolette Robinson, Pete Holmes,Autumn Best, Kathryn Gallagher and Kelley Jakle, tracks Alcala’s murders during the 1970s and his encounter with Bradshaw during and after the taping of thatDating Gameepisode.

Anna Kendrick (left) and Daniel Zovatto in ‘Woman of the Hour’.Leah Gallo/Netflix

The new movie marks Kendrick’s directorial debut; elsewhere on that podcast episode, she said she “really had fun making a period piece andplaying up the kind of seventies of it all” while discussing instances of casual sexism she included in the film.

Woman of the Houris streaming on Netflix now.

source: people.com