Anna Faris

And I enjoyed performing, but it always felt pretty intimate.

Anyway, I was never a funny person.

And my very first audition was for Scary Movie, and I got the part.

And then it became a huge thing, and it became absolutely defining of the next 26 years of my life.

And I always felt that, you know, L.A.

didn't, I didn't understand kind of who I was.

I never felt strong comedically, at least in those early years.

And I couldn't even get auditions for dramatic work.

So for this movie to come back around with the Wayans brothers, because I never got to thank them.

I never got to, after, I wasn't even sure what happened.

I still, I'm not all that clear, but their franchise was taken away from them and I didn't see them.

I was under contract for three

And then I did four on my own, but I didn't talk to them.

My last conversation was with Kenan briefly in 2002.

So after in my early 20s being like naive and confused and

thrilled like there i remember having a great time but it was dizzying the whole experience i was a like a foreign exchange student i was a stranger in a strange land did not know what was going on at all and um now

Getting to realize that when people see me, they think of that time in the theater, in the small town, with their friends and family or whatever, laughing, laughing hard.

And when they see me at the mall or whatever, at the grocery store, gas station, they're

I recognize now that people light up because they think about something dumb that I did.

And it brings me so much joy.