Anna Kendrick fights for the roles she wants

Anna Kendrick is working hard in Hollywood these days, but she tells The Portland Press Herald that, despite her Oscar nomination, she still has to fight for her roles so she doesn’t get type-cast.

“The thing is, when you get a lot of attention for one thing, you get a lot of offers to do a very similar thing,” said Kendrick, speaking during her lunch break on set in Atlanta last week. “The challenge for me (after ‘Up in the Air’) was finding something different. So actually, it took some time to get that going.”

And on her upcoming film Rapturepalooza:

But as her current film projects prove, she’s not content to stick to any one style. As far as her film career is concerned, she wants to continue to try different things.

Take for instance, “Rapturepalooza,” due out in 2012. It’s basically a wacky comedy about what happens when the world ends and some people go to meet their maker. Think of it as “Left Behind” with a sense of humor and none of the heavy-handedness.

“It’s after the Rapture, and everybody who gets left behind is trying to find their way, but it’s a comedy, and it’s meant to be dark,” she said. “I play a girl who gets left behind, and the Antichrist (Robinson) gets it in his head that we should get married.”

Read more of the interview here.

I think Anna is going to be around for a long time. And is proving she isn’t only good at one type of character.