Our little Veronica is all growns up now. Bell, the star of Forgetting Sarah Marshall and our bored office day dreams will be voicing the female lead in Imagi Studios CG-animated Astro Boy.
She joins a voice cast that includes Nicolas Cage, Donald Sutherland, Bill Nighy, Nathan Lane, Eugene Levy and Freddie Highmore.
Set in futuristic Metro City, Astro Boy is about a young robot with incredible powers created by a brilliant scientist to replace the son he has lost. Unable to fulfill the grieving father’s expectations, our hero embarks on a journey in search of acceptance, experiencing betrayal and a netherworld of robot gladiators, before he returns to save Metro City and reconcile with the man who had rejected him.
But um, Kristen Bell you guys. Even if she will be behind the camera. She’s a plucky one.
It might be more successful than Chris Isaak’s attempt at comedy. John Mayer’s lack of caring is almost refreshing. He seems to be a guy enjoying his life and it’s almost weird that he’s better at comedy than he is at making music. He killed on the Chappelle Show and there was the funny clip of him speaking Japanese to Ryan Seacrest.
Like Gabe at Videogum says, “he’s not playing with his image at this point, he’s donkey punching it and then leaving it by a highway exit ramp.”
Regardless: his music = shit (except for the blues stuff when he straight kills it), his personality = A
By James Furbush | December 20th, 2007 | 7:09 am PST
Access Hollywood debuted the trailer for the upcoming Judd Apatow-produced, Forgetting Sarah Marshall. The premise is, like a lot of Apatow productions, overtly simplistic. But we’ve all come to accept that it’s not the plot which makes Apatow comedies the best in the business right now, it’s the execution.
It’s the deft blend of raunchy comedy, male ego bashing, female bewilderment, but above all else the underlying pathos for the characters. Despite all of their imperfections, whether it’s Seth Rogan’s manchild Ben Stone, or Steve Carrell’s ubermanchild Andy Stitzer, you can tell that Apatow loves them and wants us to love them as well. That’s missing from a lot of comedies, especially from a lot of romantic comedies.
Forgetting Sarah Marshall seems to take the same approach. The story of Peter Bretter (Jason Segel), takes a Hawaii vacation in order to deal with recent break-up with his TV star girlfriend, Sarah Marshall (Kristen Bell). Little does he know Sarah’s traveling to the same resort as her ex… and she’s bringing along her new boyfriend. The film also features Apatow regulars Jonah Hill, Paul Rudd and Bill Hader.
We love Kristen Bell and Jason Segel is so underrated on the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother. They’ve both got great comedy chops and hopefully they can pull of this sort of romantic comedy.
By James Furbush | October 18th, 2007 | 11:44 am PDT
TV Addict has a first look at Veronica Mars, ney, Kristen Bell as she readies her arch on NBC’s Heroes. Bell will be portraying Elle, a girl with mysterious powers raised within the corporation. She’s not afraid to use those powers. Stay tuned after the scene, which doesn’t really reveal that much, for a brief interiew afterwards which does reveal slighly more.
Bell makes her first appearance this Monday night.
So actress Kristen Bell won’t be joining the cast of Lost next season. Lindelof and Cuse officially offered her the part of Charlotte, but Bell turned them down. Apparantly the idea of relocating to Hawaii to join the ensemble cast for the best show on television was too much for Bell.
There are rumors flying everywhere that she’ll be appearing on Broadway in Legally Blond starting in February. Which, I suppose you’ve got to follow your heart and all, but still. It would have been a great marriage, especially because Lindelof and Cuse have been extremely gracious to actors/actresses that want to leave the show. Most of the cast seem to come and go as they please, with the exception of the major island players.
There’s no doubt Bell could have come in filmed her parts, gone back to LA to do film work or even New York to do Broadway. Either way, here’s hoping Kristen Bell ends up doing some work sometime soon. We miss her already.
Update: Bell can be seen next in the upcoming film Fanboys.
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Our little Veronica is all growns up now. Bell, the star of Forgetting Sarah Marshall and our bored office day dreams will be voicing the female lead in Imagi Studios CG-animated Astro Boy.
