Kendrick: 'Twilight prepared me for Pilgrim'

Anna Kendrick has insisted that her work on the Twilight films helped to prepare her for her role in the action-packed Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World.

Speaking to Moviehole, Kendrick suggested that her disconnection from the fantasy elements in the vampire series allowed her to more easily fade into the background for Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World's fight scenes.

"In the Twilight films, my character is really not aware of the supernatural world," she said. "I don't get to watch that being shot, so on this one it was fun to react to these fight scenes almost as though it's not really happening."

The actress, who was nominated for a 'Best Supporting Actress' Oscar for Up In The Air, further explained that she found it easy to project a nonplussed reaction to cartoonish violence in director Edgar Wright's comic tale of young man doomed to face his beloved's evil ex-boyfriends.

She noted: "The fact that they're flipping through the air and throwing fireballs isn't that unnerving in the Scott Pilgrim world. After that you just kind of go back to what you were doing.

"So that was interesting. Shooting Twilight got me used to being in the background for three weeks and then saying my one line and then going back to the background again!"

Kendrick will next co-star with Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Live with It, which is to be released on August 26 in US cinemas.