In a new interview with New York Magazine, Anna Kendrick discusses how she became involved with Twilight and playing Jessica Stanley.

Twilight is a very different kind of movie (and very different role) from most of what you’ve done. How did you get involved in that?

Well, Catherine Hardwicke also saw me in Rocket Science when she was on the jury at Sundance. And she asked me to come in and read. And at first I just didn’t get it. I felt like I had no business auditioning for a kind of a queen bee–type girl, because it’s so not who I was growing up. I just figured the only way that somebody like me should be playing that is to be playing up the kind of things underneath that popular-girl image. You know, like the desperation and the jealousy, and I think that’s what makes her so funny.

The rest of the article is about Anna’s new film Up in the Air. Read more here.

[Via Anna Kendrick Fan]