When things get tough, Anna Kendrick understands how to manage it by making jokes. At least, it was her default response when she and her team at the Toronto International Film Festival became trapped in an elevator.
"I got in the wrong elevator at the wrong time," Kendrick, joked while at PEOPLE and Entertainment Weekly's photo and video studio at TIFF on Sunday. The Oscar-nominee attended the festival to promote her latest movie, Alice, Darling, which stars Charlie Carrick as a successful boyfriend of a woman who suffers from emotional abuse.
While the film is a serious drama, Kendrick was all laughs as she shared a video of her elevator ordeal on her Instagram, captioning the experience, "Ah, the classic 'I'm behind schedule at this film festival because I had to be rescued from an elevator' excuse #TIFF22."
Thankfully, Kendrick and co. were rescued by "some lovely Canadian firefighters." (Though being Canadian, being "lovely" was probably part of the job requirement.) "I got out. Some lovely Canadian firefighters had me crawl out the top of the hatch," the actress recalled. "But, yeah, it was, like, seven of us in an elevator just waiting to be rescued by firefighters. It was so absurd that it would happen on a film press tour that it just seemed so immediately comical."
Kendrick attempted to lighten the mood by finding the humour in the circumstance. "I couldn't stop cracking jokes," she added. "Although, maybe that's a defense mechanism. Come on, Anna. Do you know anything about yourself? I think that was probably a defense mechanism. Oh no, I'm not healthy!" She may or may not be well, but at least she is out of the elevator and not trapped. it's unclear.
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