Anna Faris
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
You know, when I first moved to Los Angeles, I met a specific type of person that I hadn't encountered before.
And I really wanted to develop a character around this person, which I loosely described as the self-describer.
I'd never met a culture... I'd never met people where they had...
neatly framed themselves which i think now with social media and dating apps is a little more common but at the time you know you're meeting people telling that are saying to you oh i'm just a really spiritual person or i'm i'm just really creative or like the self-description and the fad culture was new to me um and i thought it was an interesting idea for
That is what I found.
That there was a lot of like, who are you telling this story to here?
That character was, I did do some improv, but on the page, it read hysterically to me.
Like, I really felt like I saw her.
I saw how obnoxious, how intrusive, what a space invader she was.
Maybe I've become...
I didn't know here at my perfect meal that I'd be doing a lot of self-examination.
It was so, so fun.
I was very scared.
It was early on when I was auditioning for that role.
I was in a room about this size with Sophia, and I'm singing Nobody Does It Better, like I'm doing this karaoke scene.
And the door handle starts jiggling, and in walks Warren Beatty.