The moment Anna Kendrick met Barack Obama wasn't pitch perfect. 
 
 While appearing on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" Friday night, the actress recalled an incredible story of when she accidentally called former President Barack Obama an "asshole" back in 2012. She spilled the anecdote after Colbert showed an Instagram photo of Kendrick with Obama, who is doubled over in laughter. 
 
 "I got an email saying, 'Hey, do you want to meet the president?'" Kendrick began. "Naturally, I said, 'Of what?' and they were like, 'The country, you idiot.'" 
 
 The star of the blockbuster "Pitch Perfect" franchise said that while in a room of about 30 people during a Los Angeles meet-and-greet, Obama told her that he loved her 2009 movie "Up in the Air" because of how it addressed the economy and the recession. 
 
 "I was like, 'This such an inconvenient time to be having a full stroke, which is obviously what's happening,'" Kendrick said. 
 
 When she got to shake Obama's hand and take a photo, he said, "I hope I didn't embarrass you earlier." 
 
 "I was like, 'Yeah, you're such an asshole,'" Kendrick recalled. 
 
 "He kind of laughs and he says, 'Oh and you're from Maine, aren't you?' .... I said, 'Yes, and actually I was the first person here," she explained. "And he goes, 'Are people from Maine really punctual?' And I was like, 'You didn't know that? You're the president.'" 
 
 "So I called him an asshole and scolded him for not knowing enough about the 50 states, so that was what made him double over with laughter," she concluded. 
 
 Kendrick also talked to Colbert about her new movie with Blake Lively, "A Simple Favor." Colbert recalled how Lively said that Kendrick is the "hotter female version" of her husband Ryan Reynolds and therefore making out with Kendrick wouldn't be considered cheating. 
 
 "I mean, I'm basically Deadpool, right?" Kendrick reasoned. 
 
 Kendrick said that although she loves hanging out with Lively and Reynolds, it can often be "annoying" because of how "perfect and statuesque" they are as a couple. 
 
 "So I don't really like them because they are too perfect," she added. "Because you're like 'ahh, hanging out with you makes me feel like a hobbit and I don't like it.'" 
 
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 During the era of Donald Trump, sure, saying something like that could go very badly. But back in 2012, when politics was less of a bloodsport and President Barack Obama still lived in the White House, Anna Kendrick didn't just get away with it — she got the president laughing hysterically. 
 
 "I called him an asshole and scolded him for not knowing enough about the 50 states," Kendrick told Stephen Colbert during a Friday appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. 
 
 The fun apparently started when Kendrick showed up extra-early for a meet-and-greet with President Obama. She was the first attendee there, so she started chatting with one of the president's Secret Service agents, who happened to be from Maine. (Kendrick is also a Mainer.) 
 
 This is relevant to the story. 
 
 During Obama's talk, he spotted Kendrick in the crowd and praised her for her role in Up in the Air, the 2009 movie in which she starred alongside George Clooney as a corporate downsizer-in-training. Then, during the meet-and-greet portion of the event, he brought up the movie again. 
 
 "So I shake his hand and he says, 'I hope I didn't embarrass you earlier.' And I was like, 'Yeah, you're such an asshole.'" 
 
 Pause for laughter. 
 
 "And he kinda laughs and says 'Oh, you're from Maine, aren't you?' And thinking about my conversation with the Secret Service agent I said, 'Yes! And I was the first person here.'" 
 
 Then she described her chat with the Secret Service agent, which prompted a question from the president: Are people from Maine really punctual? 
 
 "I was like, 'You didn't know that? You're the president.' So I called him an asshole and scolded him for not knowing enough about the 50 states. And that was what made him double over with laughter, yayyyyyy." 
 
 So there you have it. Now you have all the context needed to understand exactly what was going on in this years-old Instagram post from Kendrick.
– Anna Kendrick told a surprisingly off-color story on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert Friday about an encounter with President Obama, TooFab reports. Asked by the host to explain a photo of Obama doubled over with laughter while shaking her hand, the A Simple Plan actor explained: "I got an email saying, 'Hey, do you want to meet the president?'" she says. "Naturally, I said, 'Of what?' and they were like, 'The country, you idiot.'" So Kendrick attended an LA meet-and-greet with around 30 people when Obama, giving a talk, praised her 2009 film Up in the Air for dealing with the US recession, reports Mashable. "I was like, 'This such an inconvenient time to be having a full stroke, which is obviously what's happening,'" says Kendrick. Shaking Kendrick's hand later and having a photo taken, the president said, "I hope I didn't embarrass you earlier." Recalls Kendrick: "I was like, 'Yeah, you're such an ***hole.' He kind of laughs and he says, 'Oh and you're from Maine, aren't you?' .... I said, 'Yes, and actually I was the first person here.' And he goes, 'Are people from Maine really punctual?' And I was like, 'You didn't know that? You're the president.'"