Insurgent Wilson and Anna Kendrick ‘Grew to become Household’ After ‘Pitch Good’ (Unique)

• Anna Kendrick and Insurgent Wilson star in a brand new advert marketing campaign for Splash Refresher water
• The Pitch Good stars inform PEOPLE about their years-long friendship and why they jumped on the probability to movie an advert marketing campaign collectively
• “All of those girls who had been so completely different grew to become household,” says Kendrick of the Pitch Good forged

Anna Kendrick and Insurgent Wilson’s friendship is pitch-perfect. 

So teaming up for Splash Refresher — bringing all their innate chemistry and improvisation chops to a hilarious new advert spot — was a no brainer for the actresses, they inform PEOPLE. “Now we have very busy lives,” Wilson, 45, says. “After which we reconnect and do a enjoyable factor like this.”

“It is good when you have got actually completely different personalities and it takes you some time to get actually, actually shut,” says Kendrick, 39. Once they first starred collectively in breakaway hit Pitch Good again in 2012, she displays, “we had been shut and bought alongside. However then the longer you understand one another, the extra you begin to see the entire variations as such a optimistic factor in your life.”

The “blessing” of the a capella musical comedy and its 2015 and 2017 sequels, Kendrick provides, “was that every one of those girls who had been so completely different grew to become household.” Wilson agrees: “We’re from such completely different areas of the world, completely different personalities. However then one thing occurred and as a bunch we had been one. It is loopy.”

Not solely did the longtime buddies leap on the probability to hang around whereas introducing Splash Refresher’s new glowing number of flavored waters, they’re additionally genuinely followers of refreshing hydration. The model’s tagline — “Like water. However good.” — can’t assist however resonate for Wilson. “I used to be a type of those that as a child, by no means drank plain water, ever.” Kendrick quips, “That tracks for you.”

“So I solely suppose I began ingesting water — ” provides Wilson, prompting her fellow Barden Bella to complete her sentence: “Once they flavored it.”

“Yeah,” admits Wilson. “So that is nice as a result of it is a product for individuals [who feel] plain water is simply too fundamental for them. They do not need to guzzle it down they usually identical to one thing with a little bit of sass, a little bit of something-something. That is Splash.”

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How did these two first start to construct their rapport as besties? “I bear in mind once I first met Anna on Pitch Good 1,” recollects Wilson. “She was clearly essentially the most high-ranking individual within the forged as a result of she’d simply been nominated for an Academy Award [for 2009 film Up in the Air] and all of us had been simply, I do not know, out of theater… I feel I used to be intimidated for a superb week.”

“Per week? That lengthy?” asks Kendrick incredulously. “Yeah,” says Wilson. “Then we had been singing and dancing and rolling on the ground.”

Kendrick nods. “The rehearsal course of is the nice equalizer.”

The three Pitch Good films, costarring Anna Camp, Brittany Snow, Alexis Knapp, Ester Dean, Hana Mae Lee, Skylar Astin, Adam Devine, John Michael Higgins, Elizabeth Banks and extra, had been sufficient of a beloved field workplace hit to warrant a frequent query from followers: What’s the standing of a potential fourth film? And with Kendrick making her directorial debut with final 12 months’s The Lady of the Hour and Wilson directing the upcoming The Deb, may both of them helm it?

“Each time anyone asks me this, I am going, ‘Somebody ought to ask Insurgent Wilson,’ as a result of she does manifest this stuff,” Kendrick responds. 

“Anna and I are competing to see who’s going to be the director,” says Wilson, who has teased the potential for a Pitch Good 4 earlier than. “I am joking! I am joking.”

“Are you able to think about what a catastrophe that might be?” quips Kendrick.