Anna Kendrick had “reservations” about signing up 50/50. The 26-year-old star plays the role of a therapist in the comedy about a man suffering with cancer, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Seth Rogen, and she admits she was worried about what questions she would have to answer when the film came out.
She said, “I had reservations when I read the original pitch. I thought, ‘I’m going to have to do press and answer questions where people ask, ‘Is cancer funny? Is it really OK to laugh at that?’ It helped that it was based on the writer Will Reiser’s real life story, because I feel like I can say: I guess if he finds it funny, then yes.’ So far, touch wood, I haven’t had a personal experience of cancer. I’m lucky I suppose.”