Red Carpet Report: ‘The House Bunny’
Premiere chats up the stars of ‘The House Bunny’ at the NYC screening about being awkward teens, rapping with Rumer Willis, and what to say when someone pinches your tail.

Leave it to actress Anna Faris to find herself sitting at home wondering what exactly happens to a Playboy Playmate after she peaks and has to move out of Hugh Hefner’s mansion. Faris, 31, turned her passing thought into her latest film, The House Bunny, and both stars and co-produces in the life-after-Playmate comedy.

“The Bunnies are so beautiful, and I am so awkward,” said Faris, who claimed that growing up she was really short, wore braces, read a lot, and didn’t have many friends in high school. Even her costume gave her some less than fabulous flashbacks. “I had a very complicated bra they had to outfit me in!” Faris revealed.

Faris describes her character Shelley Darlington as “really optimistic… She’s a kind-hearted girl with a heart of gold,” and admits in many ways Shelley is a lot like her. “I don’t know if I am as optimistic as she is, but there were times where I had to ask: ‘Am I as dumb as she is? I might be!’”

The reality is Faris is anything but dumb. Here’s what she had to say:

To get into character was there any method acting involved in this role?
There was A LOT of working out and three hours of hair and makeup every day, which I guess the Bunnies have to do too. I was wearing all those sexy outfits, and after a while I started to feel sexier. I think it was the gift that this movie gave me, amongst other things. I started to feel like a sexier person, which was really cool. I never felt that way before, so that was really nice.

Are you anticipating any feminist groups raising a ruckus?
Oh god, I just hope they don’t ask me anything. No, I should maybe worry about that and have something intellectual prepared to say. I wanted it to be clear that my character, while she is pressuring the girls to look sexy and impress guys, that we recognize that her priorities are skewed and not necessarily the correct priorities. I think this is an empowering story of women realizing that they really don’t need the approval of guys.

Did the Bunnies have any lessons they taught you?
They are really poised. I felt like I learned that. We would walk into parties where they were very poised, very graceful, very friendly, warm, and charming. Even when guys are groping them, pinching their tail, and acting inappropriate, they were always poised. I thought that was pretty impressive.

So someone could pinch your tail and you could maintain your composure?
You’re supposed to say [smiling while feigning a sweet voice and giving a little curtsy], “Please don’t touch my tail.”

Had you been to the Playboy Mansion before filming?
No, I hadn’t, so it was completely just a trip for me to be shooting up there and with Hef. The rainbow pajama collection was just amazing.

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I have scanned Anna’s feature from “In Style Make-Over” magazine. I also uploaded a HQ scan from the “Jane” (2006) issue and a HQ scan from the UK edition of “GQ” (2001). Finally, I uploaded 5 new HQ stills from “The House Bunny” – which opens this Friday, August 22! You can click on the thumbnails to see the last additions.

Anna is featured on the cover of the September 2008 issue of “Playboy” magazine… She is not posing nude in the magazine!! Her feature in the issue will be a “20 Questions” column and she only appears on the cover because in “The House Bunny” she plays a Playboy Playmate. That’s what they call good cross-promotion. Anywho… The website Playboy.com, will probably list some neat features of Anna soon!

Anna will be on “Live with Regis & Kelly” on Thursday August 14 to promote The House Bunny. Please make sure you check your local TV listings for the exact time and channel in your area.

Anna was also on “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” this past Tuesday, August 5. I’m sorry for not informing you all sooner, but I just found out myself… I’m currently searching for a video from her appearance to put on here so everyone can download it. If you can help us out by contributing, please contact me!

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.”

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This post is off topic, but since I am a huge fan of Christina Applegate, I decided this is important. Christina has recently been diagnosed with breast cancer, and she will make a full recovery, but we decided to create a star in her honor – so please read below and consider donating if you or someone you know has been affected by cancer.

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Anna is currently featured in the Fall 2008 issue of “Instyle Makeover” magazine. I will be scanning the magazine for this site a.s.a.p.

FYI – Brooke Shields is featured on the cover of the magazine…