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'I was so poor': Anna Kendrick reveals she couldn't afford to buy designer shoes when she was nominated for an Oscar

Published: 10:30 EST, 26 October 2016 | Updated: 14:33 EST, 26 October 2016

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Her nomination for a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for 2009's Up In The Air catapulted her to stardom.

But Anna Kendrick revealed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show Wednesday that at the time she was completely broke.

'It was this weird combination of like all these great things are happening but at the same time nothing has changed,' the actress, 31, said.

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'Weird' time: Anna Kendrick spoke to Ellen DeGeneres on Wednesday about what it was like to get an Oscar nomination while being so poor she couldn't afford designer shoes

'My stylist told me I had to wear the perfect shoes for an outfit, and because the movie isn't out yet, she said, nobody really knows who you are. The shoe places don't want to loan you the shoes so can you buy a pair of Louboutins?' Kendrick explained.

'And I'm like, I'm so poor....' she said.

The horror didn't stop there either.

Was broke: Kendrick, 31, recalled how her stylist had asked her to buy a pair of Louboutins to go with an outfit and she'd responded with horror because she was too poor to afford them

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Found ways to save: The actress, who has gone on to fame and fortune, also shared how she'd asked if she could stay at a cheaper hotel on a press tour and pocket the difference in cash

'So poor': Kendrick, pictured at the 2010 Academy Awards, was nominated in the best supporting actress category for her performance opposite George Clooney in Up In The Air

She recalled how she was sent by the film distribution company to New York to promote the film that also starred George Clooney and Vera Farmiga, and they put her up in a very nice hotel.

'At one point I was like, if we do another trip to New York can you put me up in a less nice hotel room and then I could keep some of the cash,' she recounted. 'And they were like, 'no this is not how this works!''

Kendrick was on Ellen to promote her new book Scrappy Little Nobody and also to promote her new film Trolls.

Promotion: Kendrick has just published a memoir called Scrappy Little Nobody in which she talks about being broke as she tried to make it in Hollywood

She sings too: She also talked about working with Justin Timberlake on the animated feature Trolls and how recording a version of True Colors with him was a 'career highlight'

In the animated feature, she worked with Justin Timberlake who also provided one of the character voices.

The two also sang together including recording a version of True Colors for the soundtrack.

'It was a career highlight for me watching him do his thing,' she gushed of the former NSync'er.