Fast Chat: Anna Faris' 'Dictator' role
Anna Faris poses for a publicity photo. (May 2012) Credit: John Russo/
Born in Baltimore and raised in Edmonds, Wash., Faris, 35, started as a child actress playing dramatic roles in the likes of Arthur Miller plays. After doing commercials, training films and a movie or two, she found stardom as wide-eyed waif Cindy Campbell in four "Scary Movie" films (2000-2006) and in the recurring role of Erica, the mother of Chandler and Monica's adoptive child, in the final season of "Friends."
Faris -- who married second husband Chris Pratt ("Moneyball," "Parks and Recreation") in 2009 (they just announced they're expecting their first child) -- spoke with frequent Newsday contributor Frank Lovece.
Very. Sacha uses the script as sort of a very, very, very loose framework, so he was always doing improv and taking the scene in a gazillion different directions. So you were forced to just keep up with him and play and go wherever he wanted to go with it. I've been part of a lot of movies where we've done improv, and I always felt like as long as I'm sincere and earnest in the scene, that was my strategy.
That was improv!
Luckily we were being pulled by a little tractor. I had just kind of gotten used to his craziness and his physicality -- the day before we'd done this crazy hugging scene where he wouldn't stop hugging me and he was sort of mauling my body. So you just sort of learn [giggles], "Oh! My body's not my own anymore!"
No, the hair was mine! I grew it out for the production. I had long armpit hair for, like, six months.
He was so sweet to me, he was so supportive, he was, like, "Honey, I love it, you do it, this is your role, you own it, baby!" But he also didn't have to spend that much time with me because I was in New York, and he was in L.A.
No, I don't think I'm involved with that.
Oh, that's odd, because my husband, Chris Pratt, is doing the Lego movie. It's from the director of [the animated] "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs" . I think we're making a sequel to that.
Oh, no way! I am not going to tell you! I have no idea if it's on YouTube, but, man, that would be mortifying! I do know my third or fourth job was a training video for Red Robin, which is a burger chain out West. I play, like, the perfect hostess. And I think they still use it. About six months ago, this girl came running up to me and she's like, "Oh my god! I just got a job at Red Robin, and you are on the training video!" I just freaked out. It was like my heart just sort of sunk a little bit.
Really? I moved up, huh? I guess that's kinda nice, isn't it? One of these days, maybe I'll crack the top 30 or 35!
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