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 Anna Faris
Interview By: Rocco Passafuime It’s been said often that comedy in Hollywood is often a boys club. Just ask the mostly comedic and highly female actress Anna Faris. Faris made her breakout role as Cindy Campbell in The Wayans Bros., and later David Zucker-helmed Scary Movie series. Along the way, she garnered more diverse roles on the TV series Friends, Lost In Translation, Waiting…, Just Friends, My Super Ex-Girlfriend, and the indie stoner comedy Smiley Face. Now the 31 year-old hopes to widen her path in the world of comedy as both star and producer of the new film The House Bunny. In it, Anna plays Shelley Darlington, a Playboy Bunny that gets kicked out of the hallowed mansion, only to end up as a house mother of a struggling sorority house. Faris discovered how she herself first came up with the basic concept for The House Bunny “It definitely started with the situation,” Anna recalls, “Marilyn Monroe is somebody I have admired since I was a little girl, but that was really a separate idea. The Marilyn Monroe joke that we have came much, much later in the process, but I had initially had an idea. I was thinking what happens to the Playboy bunnies when you live this protected, contained life. I don’t know how protected it is, but whatever, but this contained lifestyle where you’re at parties all the time and that’s your job.” However, Anna claims she initially had a much different and rather dark direction for the would-be comedy. “But I wanted to have her go on a really dark journey where she’s like a drug addict and move back to her small Christian town (laughing),” she reveals, “It turns out it’s not as commercial as the ‘becoming the house mother’ story. But I’m really happy with what we came up with. It was actually the writers. I pitched the characters to the writers of Legally Blonde and they wrote the script and figured out the rest of the plot points, because, yeah, they weren’t buying the drug addict moves to…(laughing).” In hearing this, one wondered if Faris seriously thought such a dark premise would be funny. “Well, in my twisted mind, yeah,” Anna replies. Anna also says that in presenting the concept to screenwriters Kirsten Smith and Karen McCullah Lutz involved actually acting out for them as Playboy bunny. “At our pitch meetings, which is something I’d never done before, we would go and the two writers would sit on either side of me on a couch and they would tell the story,” Faris recalls, “I would dress and I would be in character and throw out lines and jokes and sometimes it really wouldn’t go so well, but sometimes it did. It was a great learning experience for me. It was putting on a little performance and selling something and that was great.” Faris remarks that being more hands-on in the development of this particular concept has spurned in her desire to hopefully write her own comedies down the road. “I hope ... |
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