**How did Anna Kendrick come to direct Woman Of The Hour?**

Funnily enough, Kendrick was attached to the project as an actor and a producer for two years before she stepped up to direct. “In our case, we had a start date and no director,” she said to Entertainment Weekly. “We spent maybe 48 hours trying to find somebody to jump on board quickly. And we were certainly not looking at first-time directors.”

Suddenly, she had the idea that she could direct herself. “I think there was something about the movie overall that I found compelling,” she said. “I was aware that while I liked the character, I was way more interested in the movie as a whole. And of course, the whole two years, I’m sitting there going, ‘Well, if it were my movie, this is how I’d do it.”

For Kendrick, one of the central themes of the film is the societal problem of victim blaming. “I was thinking about how even very subtle victim blaming is baked into our culture,” she said. “Even the most well-meaning people will say things like, ‘Yeah, you really just got to pay attention to those early red flags,’ which is not a nightmare of a thing to say, but man, woof.’”

Anna Kendrick’s Woman Of The Hour tells the true story of the woman who met a serial killer on a dating show