Anna Faris is a super fun person who’s talented, funny, and, well, not unattractive, but her career choices of late are worse than, well, Scary Movie 4. Since 2009, when she was in both Observe and Report and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, both very good movies for very different reasons (hilariously dark rape and drug jokes; talking monkey), she’s starred in Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel, Yogi Bear, Take Me Home Tonight, Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked, oh God make it stop. Unfortunately, it’s unlikely to, considering she’s been cast as the lead in Chuck Lorre’s latest 30-minute distraction for idiots.
Anna Faris has landed the title role in CBS’ Chuck Lorre-produced multi-camera comedy pilot Mom, TVLine has learned. The actress will play a newly sober single mom who tries to pull her life together in the Napa Valley. Lorre co-wrote the Mom script with his Two and a Half Men colleagues Eddie Gorodetsky and Gemma Baker. (Via)
We just want the best for Faris — let’s not get into the reasons why she’s not a bigger star, because then there’d be a lot of yelling and fingerwagging and tsk tsk’ing, and we’d be no better than the shrieking masses at certain other websites — and instead question for the millionth time: why hasn’t she been on Parks and Rec yet? (Some husband you are, Pratt.) Because until that day comes, her career highlight might be when she was stuck to a ceiling covered in semen while a Radford song plays. It’s like middle school prom night all over again.
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(Then again, it could be her fault entirely. There are other likable female comedians in her age range who are super successful and in good movies and TV shows, but I don’t want to believe that. It’s easier to be mad at The System than a singular person within it, and it’s Friday and I’m lazy, so GRRRR GIVE HER THE GOOD ROLES NOW.)
Well at least she made a good choice when she married Chris Pratt!
I don’t care what anyone says What’s Your Number was an enjoyable movie. Chris Evans and Anna Farris are too damn likeable
Agreed. Likable fluff. Evans will be a big romantic comedy star eventually.
I half-watch plenty of rom-coms and yeah, I kinda agree. For what it was, it pretty much delivered.
She will forever have my heart for Just Friends.
I just…. don’t see the obsession with Anna Faris some people have. She’s attractive enough ; I don’t want to be the fat guy in the “Would Not Bang” meme, but most actresses in Hollywood are at least as attractive (and don’t have giant stupid bangs). I don’t know that I’ve seen her in anything that made me think she’s some hugely talented comedic actress. Apparently the only roles she can get are really shitty, why does that tell us something about everyone else working in Hollywood, but when it’s some cute blonde everyone thinks she’s being underutilized?
Because young starlets without talent or charisma are a dime a dozen, someone like Anna Faris stands out to people who can see past boobs. However, I’ve just looked up a list of actresses the same age as Faris and man, she’s in good company:
Kelly MacDonald, Isla Fischer, Reese Witherspoon, Sarah Chalke, Diane Kruger, Rashida Jones, Keri Russel, Brittany Daniel.
Now you’ve got me convinced Bobman, Faris isn’t so special.
Come on, 2 Lost 2 Translate! And yeah, she really should show up in Pawnee sometime, as one of its many concerned citizens with a daft cause. She could pull that off quite well, I think.
Steve!
Atleast she could end up getting a pretty hefty paycheck if the show last a minute judging by Lorre’s other sitcoms.
but her career choices of late are worse than, well, Scary Movie 4.
Of late? She appears to have based her career on demonstrating that Janeane Garofalo should be an Oscar-winner.
she seems like a cool person but most of the time i see her face something about it is off. like, the lips or something. i don’t know. don’t mind me, i’m probably imaging things. i don’t even know why i posted this.
You’re not imagining it. I think she’s had Botox or even plastic surgery. Something is definitely off about her lips and her face lately. Compare how she looks now to just a few years ago and it’s obvious.
How could you forget The Dictator where a running joke is how unattractive she is? Her agent must secretly despise her.
She must give the best head on this planet, cause thats the only realistic reason for her prolonged career
You could totally write jokes for Jay Leno.
Anna Faris is taking career advice from Amanda Peet.