Anna Kendrick laughs it up while filming her appearance for EXTRA at The Grove in Los Angeles on Monday afternoon (September 17).

The 27-year-old actress, wearing an ASOS dress, recently chatted with Esquire mag about her many movies hitting the big screens this fall — Pitch Perfect, End of Watch and The Company You Keep.

Anna shared of preparing for her role in The Company You Keep, “Before I started filming, I remember being on a plane, having my little headphones in, watching The Weather Underground documentary, and I would listen to passages from the manuscript that they read, pausing it, and writing down counter-arguments from the point of view of a conservative.

She added, “Which I found interesting and challenging, because I am personally not a conservative. But it was a fascinating exercise.”

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