The Kendrick of It All
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As A Simple Podcast enters the final stretch with its character study episodes, Alanna, Christina, and Jordan are joined by writer and culture critic Margaret H. Willison for a textual and meta-textual close read of Anna Kendrick the actress, Anna Kendrick the persona, and how both of those figures operate within Stephanie in A Simple Favor. We also pay our respects to the under-appreciated classification of Anxiety Bi, talk about operating within the limits of acceptable female power in Hollywood, and reflect on the canonically queer wonder of a teen Kendrick singing "Ladies Who Lunch" in Camp.
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