Anne Kendrick may be recognized by millions of females worldwide as 'Jessica' in the Twilight film series, but it's her starring role opposite George Clooney in Up in the Air that's attracting serious awards attention. Kendrick plays an earnest, hard-working but naive new employee of a firm that does all the dirty work of firing people for large companies. Adapted from the Walter Kirn novel by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner and directed by Reitman, (Juno, Thank You for Smoking) hopes are high for Up in the Air's chances at a little Oscar glory.Kendrick said she just loved how complicated her character, Natalie, is in Up in the Air. "I love that she's unapologetically ambitious. That's not a quality that I have, but I admire it in her," admitted Kendrick. "It's funny, I feel really protective of her, and it's funny the way the audience loves her after she falls apart. It makes me want to defend her and it makes me wish that people admired that strength in her. At the end of the day, I read a lot of screenplays about a guy on a journey who meets a girl and the girl doesn't really do much other than kind of stand there and look pretty, and is used kind of as a device for this guy. I love that she existed for her own story and that she didn't have a romantic story."
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