Catching Up with Kristen Bell

The quirky and always lovable Kristen Bell is in Women’s Health Magazine for May 2008. I am crazy-happy to hear that she’s in constant contact and good friends with Veronica Mars alum Ryan Hansen (and his wife). I never even had a fleeting fangirl moment of Veronica/Dick shipping, but maybe if you were that will make you happy. I know Jason Dohring (Logan Echolls, Veronica’s big love on the show) is married, but I wish we could hear about them still being friends and hanging out. Maybe that would happen if they were on the same network, but Dohring is on Moonlight with CBS, while Bell is on Heroes for NBC. Alas!

In the Women’s Health interview, Bell describes herself as a homebody. (Woo, let’s hear it for those of us who’d rather watch a movie at home with friends instead of hanging out at a migraine-inducing bar all night!) As a homebody, she certainly has fun, though. She lives in a house with four of her friends, and they use one of the rooms as the ‘dance-party room’ and slide around in it in their socks. I’d so be up for that. My kitten, Frida, loves to do her own variation of that. I open up the Diet Coke boxes I have and she sort of slides through them with a running start, which sends her and the box swooshing across the kitchen floor. It’s a good time for all.

On the health front, what can we do to mimic Bells’ routine? She said she always takes the stairs - no matter what. And she does yoga. Both of those sounds doable. But then you hear that she “trains twice a week to build muscle.” And that doesn’t sound fun at all. I don’t know. Maybe it depends on what music she’s listening to. Can’t we all just jump on trampolines and sing karaoke?

As many know, Bell does the voiceovers on Gossip Girl. She plays the anonymous voice of the person who writes a scandal-filled blog about everyone. When asked what it was like to be this voice, i.e. “cattiness incarnate” - Bell said, “I channel the voice that everybody’s had in her head since grade school. … You’re worried that someone is thinking something bad about you, so you think it about them first.” Sure, I might have that voice in my head, but it’s always had a Scottish accent - what’s THAT about? Why does Ewan McGregor hate me!?

Picture of Kristen Bell is from Kristen-B.net.

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