Twilight set’s miserable secrets revealed in Anna Kendrick’s book

“For those of you thinking, ‘Wait, she was in Twilight?’, I sure was!” Kendrick, 31, writes in her new memoir, Scrappy Little Nobody, which was released Tuesday. “I was the sassy, awkward friend who broke up the relentless succession of intense staredowns with musings on boys, tanning, and various school gossip. It was a sweet gig.”

As Jessica Stanley, a friend of the lead character, Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart), Kendrick’s relatively minor role meant she got to collect a Twilight paycheck but only spend a few weeks on set. As she puts it, “The best part was that I got all the fun with none of the consequences,” such as the “creepy super-fame” that the movie’s stars Stewart, Robert Pattinson, Kellan Lutz and Taylor Lautner endured.

However, it’s probably good that Kendrick was only around for part of the time – as she describes it, the filming experience sounds rather miserable. She explains that they filmed in freezing weather in Oregon and Canada, where the setting was beautiful but extremely uncomfortable. It didn’t really help the mood on set. When she arrived a few weeks into filming, thrilled to join, she didn’t get the most enthusiastic response from the cast.

“Kellan Lutz is the sweetest guy, but that day I think he might have strangled me if he’d had the energy,” Kendrick writes. “Kristen Stewart – one of the most committed actors I’ve ever worked with – made a valiant effort to be friendly, but I could tell she was putting her back into it. Underneath every word, I heard ‘You don’t know, man, you don’t know what it’s like out there’.”