Anna Kendrick's underseen thriller Alice, Darling is now available to watch on Netflix in the UK and Ireland.
Starring Kendrick as Alice, the psychological thriller sees Alice take a vacation with her two best friends Sophie (played by Loki star Wunmi Mosaku) and Tess (Kaniehtiio Horn). Alice begins to act strangely as the secrets she has kept about her abusive boyfriend Simon (Charlie Carrick) surface.
Alice, who is attempting to piece her life back together, has her courage tested when Simon appears at the holiday home the group is staying at and a local girl goes missing.
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Previously speaking about the role, Kendrick opened up about her past experience in an abusive relationship and how it informed her performance in the film.
"I really related to Alice's obsessive mind," she said in an interview with The LA Times. "It’s this totally irrational hope that if I'm just a little bit better, I'll be safe. It's like having a pair of pliers on your heart."
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Opening up further about the part, Pitch Perfect star Kendrick explained how the movie's depiction of mental abuse mirrored some aspects of her own life.
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"That was a big part of my problem. 'Well he never hit me and I'm not really afraid that he's going to hit me. How do I discern between normal conflict and abuse?'" she explained. "I love that it really relied on Alice's experience rather than cataloguing evidence of the behaviour from Simon.
"It was really, really important that the movie relied so heavily on just staying with Alice," she continued. "You don’t have to believe that it might get physical for you to feel like you’re allowed to leave, that you deserve to be treated better, deserve to feel safe."
Alice, Darling is now available to watch on Netflix.
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