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Clooney's Running Mate

In Up in the Air, Anna Kendrick plays a fast-talking foil to George Clooney. She tells The Daily Beast about not eating at premieres, her messy house, and playing a control freak.

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Anna Kendrick doesn’t get that she’s about to be a star. When she race walks into Joan’s on Third in West Hollywood, dressed in head-to-toe black, with aviator glasses propped up on her head, she is oblivious to the head turns she’s caused out front of the gourmet cafe.

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