Anna is featured in the September 2008 issue of “Details” magazine. You can check out the article and a preview picture here… Also on men.style.com you can watch a video from the photoshoot! 
To hear Anna Faris speak is to realize that playing dumb is more complicated than it looks. The actress, cool and slender as the bottle of water she’s drinking, is in a Hollywood bar, talking about why she’s scornful of monologues and how all acting is about human interaction. “The script isn’t as important as what actors do together,” she says. “It’s the dynamic between people.”
There’s a pause. Faris feels obliged to explain the origins of her theory. “Everyone in my family is a sociologist,” she says. “My brother, my dad, one of my grandfathers—everybody.” She knows that as she’s saying this you’re probably thinking about her goofier onscreen exploits, like the scene in Scary Movie 4 in which a green hand emerges from behind her to shave her armpits.
Faris’ career has been built on such golden cinematic moments (a fifth Scary Movie is on the way) in masterpieces like Smiley Face, in which she plays a stoner who fries cannabis in butter for breakfast, and Just Friends, in which she’s a pop diva who sets her private jet on fire by leaving the tinfoil on her microwave dinner. In The House Bunny, out this month, Faris, 31, portrays a Playboy Bunny who gets booted from the mansion and ends up in a sorority house—as they like to say in Hollywood, The Battleship Potemkin it’s not.
“You watch some of Anna’s movies and you think, hmm. Kinda wacky, right?” says Luke Wilson, Faris’ costar in My Super Ex-Girlfriend. “Turns out she’s sharp as a tack and really has her shit together.” Faris majored in English at the University of Washington, and her acting chops have impressed Sofia Coppola, who cast her in Lost in Translation, and Ang Lee, who put her in Brokeback Mountain. As she says, “That version of me onscreen? It’s me at work.”
It was Faris who cooked up the premise for The House Bunny and who was savvy enough to enlist the writers from Legally Blonde to get it on the page. Then she pitched the project to Adam Sandler’s production company. Within three months, she was shooting at the mansion with Hef, having added a lead role and a producing credit to her résumé. “Anna’s relentless on the cell phone,” says Colin Hanks, who costars in The House Bunny. “She’s a player.”
What you see onscreen, though, is what you see in person: long, blond curls that frame enormous blue eyes in a way that makes her a dead ringer for Goldie Hawn in her spacey prime. Not that Faris remembers the image. As a kid growing up in a small town north of Seattle, she was forbidden to watch television and movies. “My brother and I ran around in the woods or we made up plays. It was all a little sheltered,” she says. For a long time, Faris was a wallflower.
“I felt like the girl that guys befriended to get close to my beautiful girlfriends,” she says. “When I finally did start to feel attractive, I went overboard. I started dressing in these tiny schoolgirl outfits. I liked getting attention, but I think I was expressing anger by showing my body. That’s why I didn’t have a lot of girlfriends in college.”
Faris, who divorced actor Ben Indra earlier this year, is now “seeing someone great,” disclosing only that he’s an actor. “I caught him the other night at a bar having a conversation with two girls,” she says. “I called him and he admitted it. I was annoyed at first, but then I realized, it’s cool. Most guys wouldn’t have answered the phone—and he deserves to feel attractive. So good for him . . . the fucker.”
That little kicker is telling, since comic timing is as much a part of her success as looks are. “It confuses people if you do comedy and you’re sexy, but I like to play with that,” she says. “We’re not programmed to think that pretty women can have interesting ideas.”
Now Faris is hanging with the coolest young comic minds in town—Seth Rogen (whom she’s starring opposite in Observe and Report, due next year), Judd Apatow, and company. They’re the sort of friends Faris knows she can learn from as she strives for career longevity. “To me, the one to watch is Betty White,” Faris says. “The woman’s been doing comedy for more than 60 years. I’d take some of that action.”
