Archive for October, 2009
It’s always worth taking a chance to geek out with Kristen Bell. Her roundtable interview for Astro Boy was the perfect opportunity to talk ‘80s cartoons and recent movies. In Astro Boy, Bell plays the voice of Cora, an orphan on the surface who Astro meets after he falls from Metro City.
Crave Online: What got you involved with Astro Boy?
Kristen Bell: I have always loved animation and I always knew that I wanted to be part of an animated movie, and I read Astro Boy and liked it so much and then I had always known the name in my head and knew that it was a character from somewhere but didn’t really understand how iconic it was overseas and how influential this character had been from the first in so many people’s lives in the television show in the ‘50s and in the ‘80s. It was all just a learning experience for me about what a cool cat he was and how sort of timeless the story was, you know, and there’s a reason that they want to remake it because it’s just a very relatable, attainable story for everyone. Read more… »
Kristen is in the November issue of “Women’s Health”. The pictures from the photoshoot are in the gallery. The Interview is below and the video is HERE!
“Do you wanna do the full hike?” Kristen Bell asks, her blue eyes glinting in the last drops of late-afternoon sun.
Why not? Clearly, she’s up for it. The actress has arrived at L.A.’s Griffith Park, prepared for a rigorous trek, her petite frame clad in a workout top and a pair of seriously short shorts that show off her toned legs. She starts up the dirt path, two of her dogs in tow.
But while Kristen is interested in a workout, the dogs have other ideas. Minutes into the hike, Lola, a 5-year-old chow chow-corgi mix, stops in her tracks. “Already?” Kristen says with good-natured exasperation. “Now that’s embarrassing.” Not to be outdone, Mr. Shakes, a 41/2-year-old mutt, decides to do his business smack in the middle of the high-traffic trail. “I didn’t bring any bags with me!” Would notebook paper do? “I’ll take it,” Kristen says, crouching down to clean up the mess. Then, without missing a beat: “Now, where was I?”
Cranking Up Her Career
That ability to deftly deal with anything life throws in her path has pretty much characterized Kristen’s career. The 29-year-old actress first appeared on everyone’s radar as TV’s wisecracking high school sleuth Veronica Mars, then burnished her fanboy cred with an electrifying turn on Heroes. Her current small-screen gig, providing the voice of the unseen title character on Gossip Girl, surely ranks as her easiest. She logs about an hour in the voice-over booth every two weeks, though she says she’d welcome a more time-consuming on-screen role if it included bedding down with Chuck Bass, the show’s resident bad boy, played to slick perfection by Ed Westwick. Read more… »
KRISTEN Bell has a confession — she’s a HUGE control freak!
The actress — who stars in new movie Couples Retreat — says she gets anxious very easily and is unbearable to be around when she gets stressed.
“If I’m very stressed out, I do like everything to be in order,” says Kristen. “It’s quite frustrating to see things that are not.”
Kristen, 29, recently revealed that she likes to play board games with her boyfriend Dax Shepard.
“It’s important to talk about your deepest, darkest fears and feelings,” she told Women’s Health magazine. “Your partner should hear your most embarrassing insecurities, because once you say them out loud, you’ve created a safe zone. A snuggle party can fix anything — it’s true.
“There is almost nothing, barring a natural disaster, that I would let eat into my time at home, playing Scrabble with Dax.” [source]
Kristen Bell may be the only woman in Hollywood who is actually trying to age herself.
At 29, she still looks like a teen. You’d definitely card her.
Most people first got to know her as a high-school detective in the title role of TV’s “Veronica Mars,” from 2004 to 2007. She was already in her 20s then.
In the recent comedy hit “Couples Retreat,” opposite Vince Vaughn and Jason Bateman, the actress has gotten to mature a bit – playing a woman who after a number of years of marriage has problems because of her inability to conceive.
“It’s exciting to start playing characters that are more my age,” Bell says. “I know the facts of the situation are that I look a lot younger than I actually am.”
But in the animated “Astro Boy,” which opened Friday, the Detroit native is back to voicing a teen as Cora, who helps the robot hero.
Still, Bell is making progress. In “Forgetting Sarah Marshall” she got to play Jason Segel’s obsession as the title character.
You’ll see her next in the comedy “Serious Moonlight,” directed by Cheryl Hines, in which she plays the younger woman whom Timothy Hutton is leaving his wife (Meg Ryan) for.
Early next year, she stars in the Disney romantic comedy “When in Rome.” In it, she plays an ambitious New Yorker disillusioned about love until she takes some coins from a magic fountain and finds herself pursued by an odd group of suitors, including Danny DeVito, Jon Heder, Josh Duhamel, Will Arnett and current boyfriend Dax Shepard.
And there are a number of projects lined up, including just finishing up another Disney movie.
Bateman, who first met Bell on “Sarah Marshall,” jokes that “if you take her batteries out, she slows down quite a bit. But as long as she has a full charge, she’s quite a handful.” Read more… »
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