It’s one of the most irritating bits of non-thinking in arts life. Here’s the Sunday Times Review with the front and two more pages devoted to Anna Kendrick – “Up Where She Belongs”, a fast-rising star on her way to the A-list.
Why interview her now though? Because she’s Cinderella in the film version of Sondheim’s Into the Woods, out now. So what does Camilla Long, reviewing for the Review, have to say a few pages on? Kendrick is “screechy and hamsterish” as Cinders. In short, a puff of publicity goes poof somewhere between the commissioning desk and the critics’ desk. It happens time and again all over, and not just in the ST. Nil liaison just builds them up to let you down.
