Anna Kendrick Got No-Nonsense Advice from “Pitch Perfect ”Friend“ ”Brittany Snow Before Directing Her First Movie

The actress said she was "expecting a really sugary-sweet pep talk" from Brittany Snow but got something else instead

Anna Kendrick turned to Pitch Perfect costar Brittany Snow for directing advice.

While on the Today show Monday, Oct. 7, Kendrick told host Hoda Kotb that Snow was one of the people she reached out to before making her directorial debut with Woman of the Hour, in which she also stars.

The Oscar-nominated actress admitted it was "really scary to take that step" into the director's chair for the true-crime thriller, which premiered at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival.

"I did, I called Brittany Snow. I feel very, very lucky and grateful that the Pitch Perfect girls, we're really family in the truest sense of the word. We're like, 'We didn't choose each other, but we're connected for life,' " said Kendrick, 39.

She continued, "The day before we actually started filming, I was really — my confidence was so low. And I called Brittany, and I was expecting a really sugary-sweet pep talk 'cause that's kinda who she is. And she's just went, 'Anna, you're gonna get on set and you're gonna know what to do.' I was like, 'Why are you talking to me like me? That is so rude.' But it was also exactly what I needed to hear."

"She kinda gave me a taste of my own medicine," Kendrick added.

Related: Brittany Snow Says She's Still 'Very Close' with 'Pitch Perfect' Cast: They're 'Very Kind People'

Never miss a story — sign up for PEOPLE's free daily newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer​​, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.

Kendrick and Snow made three Pitch Perfect films together between 2012 and 2017. The films also starred Rebel Wilson, Anna Camp, Alexis Knapp, Hana Mae Lee, Ester Dean, Shelley Regner, Kelley Jakle and more.

During the Today interview, Kendrick said, "I don't know what I did to get so lucky to have those girls as a part of my life."

Snow, 38, made her directorial debut with Parachute, a drama about disordered eating and body image issues that starred Courtney Eaton and Thomas Mann.

The star previously told PEOPLE of making the film, which debuted at the 2023 South by Southwest Film & TV Festival, "Everyone had a personal experience they brought to the table, and it was fulfilling to intertwine those individual experiences within the story. It became so many people’s movie, and that’s exactly what I wanted."

Related: Pitch Perfect's Skylar Astin Says Cast Has a Few Group Chats Going: 'No One's Blowing Up the Phone' (Exclusive)

Wilson, 44, recently told PEOPLE that watching costar Elizabeth Banks direct Pitch Perfect 2 inspired her and the other cast members to try directing. Wilson made her directorial debut with the musical-comedy The Deb, which debuted at the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival.

“Elizabeth Banks came as a first-time female director and directed Pitch 2, and that just went gangbusters. And I think we, all of us girls, kind of watched that and went, ‘Huh,’ ” Wilson says. “It was inspiring to us that we could get out there and do it."

Woman of the Hour is on Netflix Oct. 18.

For more People news, make sure to sign up for our newsletter!

Read the original article on People.