Is there anything that Kristen Bell can't do? Not only does the 24-year-old Veronica Mars star toss off the sharpest one-liners since Buffy on her UPN cult hit (Tuesdays at 9 pm/ET), but in Showtime's recent musical Reefer Madness, she hit such beautiful high notes that actress-"vocalists" like Lindsay Lohan should've been shamed into unplugging their mics.
Unfortunately, the winsome ingenue tells TVGuide.com that she has no burning desire to fire up the pop charts. "If I released an album, it would be a lot different from the choices most girls my age have made," she says. "At this point, I don't have any desire to write my own pop music, so I think I'd probably redo a bunch of Judy Garland songs. I'd be much more of a Michael Bublé kind of a singer, doing classics."
Furthermore, Bell prefers analyzing characters to interpreting songs. "It's
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Though we can imagine a high time being had by everyone working on Showtime's hip and trippy musical parody, Reefer Madness (premiering Saturday at 8 pm/ET), leading lady Kristen Bell tells TVGuide.com that Method acting was strongly discouraged on the set.
"When we first did it [Off-Broadway], Andy [Fickman, who directed both the stage and screen versions] wanted us to check all real drug experiences, if we had them, at the door and actually [approach the material] the way they did in the [original 1936 propaganda] film.
"They were essentially B-movie actors who thought they were going to make a movie that would change the views of America; it was meant to be serious," the Veronica Mars star continues. "It wasn't until they saw [the finished product] that they realized it was looking like a spoof."
In retrospect, perhaps the new flick's cast should have been allowed a toke for ev
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Actress Kristen Bell, 24, went from Broadway crooner and occasional TV guest star (Deadwood) to headliner of UPN's popular high-school detective series Veronica Mars (Tuesdays at 9 pm/ET). The dishy Detroit native now carries the weight of an entire show on her petite shoulders with aplomb.
"It's been a very, very good thing," the perky blond smiles, "but it's tough to accomplish because you're only one person, and it seems like I need to be in so many places at once. So it's definitely a lot more work than I think I had anticipated, but the payoff is extraordinary. The publicity has really created a much wider fan base, and I'm just very, very grateful for it."
You're welcome, Kristen. Pressed for some scoop, the small-screen sleuth insists her bosses haven't clued her in on the identity of Lilly Kane's murderer. This Mars case rivals Desperate Housewives' unsolved mysteries in its wacky twists and turns. "They don't tell
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On HBO's gritty Western Deadwood, Kristen Bell raised viewers' eyebrows as Flora, the ill-fated con artist and sometime prostitute. Over the course of three episodes, she schemed, connived — and died one of the most disturbing deaths ever seen on TV. (Flora was brutally beaten and gunned down by Powers Boothe and his crew. Not nice.) Now, she's the teen private eye on UPN's Veronica Mars (Tuesdays at 9 pm/ET), a troubled girl who lost her virginity whilst unconscious from a date-rape drug. Yikes! Guess this actress isn't into light roles.
"I got it bad on Deadwood," Bell concedes with a chuckle. "That was brutal. I mean, I've been very lucky that the parts I've played have been very deep. I don't think that any character that I've been allowed to play has been easy — neither one of these roles."
Comparing Flora and Veronica, Bell points out that "they're both very strong girls. Unfortunately, Flora was a little
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