| A Conversation With Kristen Bell |
| April 24th, 2008 |
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Thanks Erin Clinton for letting me know that there’s brand new interview with Kristen in the May issue of Women’s Health Magazine:
 Watching Bell walk into a laid-back café near her house in the Hollywood Hills is like watching Norm stroll into Cheers. She greets the hostess by name, makes a beeline for her favorite seat, and orders the K. Bell special: fried egg whites on rye with lettuce, tomato, avocado, a slice of cheese, and a whisper of mayo. “It’s healthy,” says Bell, who sports skinny pants, a plum blouse, and suede boots. “But the mayo gives it that diner feel.” (Something tells us she doesn’t do gravy fries.)
Ever since the star of the CW’s cult hit Veronica Mars moved on to juicier roles–as a femme fatale in NBC’s Heroes, the mischievous narrator of the CW’s Gossip Girl, and the lead in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, the new flick from Judd Apatow (The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up)–she’s found it tougher to go unnoticed. Becoming a fixture at a neighborhood brunch spot is just one way she’s clinging to normal. Another tactic: staying in. Though she loves the occasional night out with her new guy, comedian Dax Shepard, she can usually be found playing Mario Kart with her four roommates. For this homebody, that’s life in the fast lane.
Your character on Veronica Mars was the “queen of geek chic.” Are you?
I’m a geek who loves fashion. There’s been a reinvention of the word geek. It means [being passionate about] anything that’s under the radar or sort of frowned upon, like Comic-Con.
Comic-Con?
It’s a giant comic book convention, and I’ve gone for the past four years to represent the shows I’ve been on. I have friends who wear Star Wars costumes and act like the characters all day. I may not be that deep into it, but there’s something great about loving what you love and not caring if it’s unpopular.
That’s so un-Gossip Girl. What’s it like being cattiness incarnate?
I channel that voice everybody’s had in her head since grade school. It’s the critical voice that pops up when you see somebody who’s wearing mom jeans, you know what I mean? It’s a defense mechanism–that’s what cattiness and gossip are. You’re worried that someone is thinking something bad about you, so you think it about them first.
Do you know who Gossip Girl is?
She isn’t a physical being. Gossip Girl is a slambook, she’s the Internet, she’s where secret thoughts are written.
Bill Hader, Paul Rudd, Jonah Hill, Kristin Wiig–they’ve all worked with Apatow before. Was it a hard clique to break into?
They’re a very welcoming and warm group, but definitely intimidating because they do a lot of improv. I had to be ready for anyone to throw any-thing at me.
Your character is a heartless actress. Yet somehow she’s still likable.
Sarah was written in a beautiful way: She’s not just the antagonist or the victim. Typically in romantic comedies, one person is demonized and the other isn’t. But this is like Knocked Up; all the lines are blurred. Nobody’s really at fault, and that’s how reality is. Sarah is probably 25 percent bitch, 25 percent airhead, and 50 percent real.
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| FSM Zoom In Review |
| April 22nd, 2008 |
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Big thanks goes to Jim Rohner for e-mailing me about this FSM review. You should definitely check it out, because you can find there also Background Buzz - links to interesting FSM videos (for example behind the senes footage), interviews etc.
There are only so many times I can say the same thing: the folks from Apatow Productions are good at what they do. Not only have Judd Apatow and crew altered the romantic comedy to adhere to the tastes of a male crowd, but they’ve done it using the same method seen in Knocked Up - a hilarious leading man who is atypical to conventional Hollywood productions. In Forgetting Sarah Marshall, writer/star Jason Segel and first-time director Nicholas Stoller have created a piece that’s a bit less raunchy and a bit more touching than previous films under the Apatow banner. I’ll risk the backlash and declare this to be the funniest film of the year so far.
Forgetting Sarah Marshall begins with a breakup. An awkward breakup. Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell), star of the hit TV series Crime Scene: Scene of the Crime, comes home one day and breaks up with her musician boyfriend Peter Bretter (Segel) as he stands stark naked in their living room. She leaves him for Aldous Snow (Russell Brand), the vapid lead-singer of the band Infant Sorrow with a laid back attitude and no filter between what his mind thinks and his mouth says. Attempts by Peter to put Sarah behind him with promiscuity simply result in uncontrollable fits of crying and it’s his brother, Brian (Bill Hader), who finally convinces him to take a vacation to Hawaii.
The Turtle Bay Resort in Oahu is the beautiful island getaway where Peter ends up but it has one problem: Sarah and Aldous have picked that exact resort for their vacation as well. However, there may be a solution to that problem - Rachel Jansen (Mila Kunis), the beautiful, carefree receptionist at Turtle Bay who attempts to inspire him to follow his dream of creating a Dracula musical with puppets and who, like him, is recovering from her own heartache.
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• Kristen Bell to star in ‘When in Rome’ (February 11, 2008)
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