Anna Kendrick Plays a Woman Stuck in an Emotionally Abusive Relationship in Alice, Darling Trailer



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Anna Kendrick plays a pistillate astatine her breaking origin successful Alice, Darling.

On Tuesday, Lionsgate released the superior trailer for the approaching movie directed by utilizing Mary Nighy, which follows the place antheral oregon pistillate Alice (Kendrick), who is struggling to abstracted herself from her psychologically abusive fellow Simon (Charlie Carrick).

The trailer shows Alice arsenic she musters up the braveness to prevarication to Simon that she goes connected a enactment thrust portion she is invited via her adjacent pals (Kaniehtiio Horn and Wunmi Mosaku) connected a vacation.

The trailer indicates her pulling retired her ain hairsbreadth and attempting to permission the vacation aboriginal for fearfulness implicit angering her boyfriend.

Footage additionally teases what takes spot portion Simon arrives connected the ladies's' vacation home, and his absorption to Alice's lie.

Ahead of Alice, Darling's planetary astir utile connected the Toronto International Film Festival successful September, Kendrick instructed PEOPLE that Alice's communicative "resonated" on with her for a selected motive.

"I changed into popping retired of a idiosyncratic revel successful with affectional maltreatment and intelligence abuse," she shared, recalling the clip she archetypal came crossed the screenplay. "I deliberation my rep despatched it to me, due to the fact that helium knew what I'd been dealing with and despatched it along. Because helium turned into like, 'This benignant of speaks to the entirety which you've been talking to maine approximately.' "

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"It felt truely awesome successful that I had, frankly, disposable a fig of movies astir abusive oregon poisonous relationships, and it failed to truly look similar what go happening to me," she added. "It benignant of helped maine normalize and trim what changed into occurring to me, owed to the information I idea, 'Well, if I changed into successful an abusive dating, it would look similar that.' "

For Kendrick, Alice, Darling marked the superior clip she's taken connected a task truthful applicable to her.

"Usually, it is simply I work a large publication and I conscionable similar the radical concerned, and I marque the film," she instructed PEOPLE successful September. "And it go truely astonishing timing that we recovered this publication astatine that infinitesimal successful my life. And successful truth, I don't hide my archetypal Zoom assembly with Mary Nighy, the director, disclosing to her what I turned into going via."

"And I adjacent said to her, 'This each passed disconnected precise recently. In fact, it took spot truthful presently that if the movie turned into capturing successful a month, I apt shouldn't bash it,' " Kendrick recalled of the meeting. "But it was many, galore months away. So I wasn't successful accidental of re-traumatizing myself. But yeah, it's perfectly a wholly unsocial enjoy."

Alice, Darling volition statesman its theatrical tally successful Los Angeles theaters connected Dec. 30 and could enlarge solely astatine AMC Theaters nationwide connected Jan. 20, 2023.