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Kendrick said the producers asked her to redo the pitch the next day but with more confidence.
“It was a fascinating example of just how phony Hollywood is because then I did it again the next day,” Kendrick continued. “And I just did, ‘You’d be fools not to hire me.’ And they hired me.”
“They knew that I was faking it. They have told me to fake it, and they still were like, ‘Well, that lady seems like a leader. Let’s hire her.'”
In recent years, Michelle Obama, Tom Hanks, and other celebrities have been vocal about their imposter syndrome, a psychological condition where individuals doubt their abilities and fear being exposed as a fraud.
Valerie Young, the cofounder of the Imposter Syndrome Institute, previously told Business Insider that people who work in creative fields are significantly more prone to self-doubt because art is subjective, allowing artists to think that they can always do “better.”
Young recommended: “Shifting your mindset about competence — to know that sometimes good enough is good enough and moving on.”
It seemed to have worked for Kendrick, who was on Variety’s 10 directors to watch list in Janurary. “Woman of the Hour” has a Rotten Tomatoes critic score of 91% and debut on the second spot of Netflix’s top 10 movies last week.