Actor Anna Kendrick is a well-known star from her roles in Pitch Perfect and Twilight, plus many more. Yet for all her years in Hollywood, she's never been at the helm. That is changing with her directorial debut in Woman of the Hour.

The actor talks about channeling her own trauma in directorial debut about 1970s serial killer Rodney Alcala, once a contestant on 'The Dating Game.'

At the film's L.A. premiere, Kendrick recalled giving "perhaps the most ambivalent pitch in the history of Hollywood" to nab the job and explained why Paul Feig was the first person she called after getting it.