Actress ANNA FARIS and her new husband CHRIS PRATT were in Bali, Indonesia for a friend’s wedding when they decided to exchange vows themselves.
The stars were so moved by their pal’s nuptials they tied the knot in a small traditional Balinese ceremony in July (09) after all their friends had left to return home to the U.S.
Faris reveals there were only two others present for the intimate wedding – a local priest and a hotel employee who filmed the romantic event for the couple.
She tells U.S. talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, “We got married in July in Bali. We were actually there for a friend’s wedding and all our friends left and then we were like, ‘Let’s do it’.
“The hotel offered a Balinesean-style ceremony. They throw things like rice and water and flower petals on you… I had no idea what was going on.
“It was the two of us, the Balinesean priest and a guy from the hotel filming. It was great, it was really spontaneous.”
The Scary Movie star insists she has no regrets about eloping – and her mother and father are equally as happy about the minimal cost of the wedding.
She adds, “I told my parents and they were like, great! My mum was happy we didn’t spend much money!”

From Contact Music

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs star Anna Faris began performing at nine-years-old. Faris was drawn to acting because of its ability to make a tiny person feel enormous. “I was a really short child,” Faris admitted exclusively to SheKnows from a suite at the Four Seasons Beverly Hills.

Faris is starring in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, in theaters September 18, an animated spectacle based on the beloved children’s book by Judi and Ron Barrett.

Meatballs also stars SNL’s Bill Hader as an inventor who seeks to create a device that turns water into food for his island-town that is surviving only on sardines. Faris’ weather reporter arrives on the island for another story and explosively becomes part of the food falling from the sky story.

Faris is widely known for her priceless comic timing in the Scary Movie films, The House Bunny and starring opposite some of Hollywood’s hottest funnymen including Ryan Reynolds in Just Friends and Seth Rogan in April’s Observe and Report.

The Cloudy with a Chance of Meatball star recently wed sweetheart Chris Pratt July 9 and with her star ever-rising, the forecast for Faris is blindingly sunny.
Anna FarisFaris’ firsts

SheKnows: First of all, congratulations on your wedding.

Anna Faris: Oh, thank you!

SheKnows: When actors discover they want to act very young as you did, what was it about performing that first appealed to you?

Anna Faris: When I was six, my mom enrolled me in an acting class. I loved it. Most kids were into swimming or soccer and I just loved acting. There never was any pressure to do it. See, I was really short! It was my identity that I was the short girl. I think out of that I needed to find a way to express myself. Also, in many ways too I was terrible at public speaking — but, through escaping in a character…

SheKnows: …that gave you more confidence to do it.

Anna Faris: Totally! Plus, I worked with adult actors. That was really big for me to be surrounded by adults hearing them complain about, I don’t know, adult things (laughs). It was really fun for me. I didn’t have too many friends. I really cherish those memories.

SheKnows: You have the most impeccable comic timing…

Anna Faris: Oh my God, thank you.

SheKnows: You do, like a Lucile Ball for the modern era.

Anna Faris: That is so nice of you…

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Anna Faris made her mark playing sexy blondes who aren’t always the brightest bulb in the bin. And she’s pushed the envelope of raunchy comedy in films like The House Bunny and the outrageous Observe and Report.

Now, she is strictly G-rated in the animated version of the popular children’s book Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.

Parade.com’s Jeanne Wolf found out why Faris has a special connection to the story.

The good and the bad of reliving childhood memories.
“It was a book that I loved as a kid, so I couldn’t wait to be a part of it. I thought it was going to be easy, but it’s so much harder than I thought. You’re on your feet for hours in front of a microphone and you’re giving a full performance. The producers sort of sell you on it going, ‘This is going to be fun. No hair. No makeup. You just pop in. You record your voice. You act out a funny animated character.’ Believe me, it’s still a challenge.”

Getting to reveal her ditzy side.
“I provide the voice of Sam Sparks, who’s smart and feisty. Normally, a girl in a movie goes from being shy and geeky to super cool and hot, but Sam takes the reverse journey and I loved that. I think there are some great messages in the movie about being true to yourself and following your passions and your interests–even though they may not be the coolest thing in the world.”

Real food among the animation.
“Bill Hader’s character and I voice this big scene where cheeseburgers are raining down and we’re chomping them. So they brought in real cheeseburgers to the studio and we’d eat them while we recorded the lines. OK, the truth is they had a spit bucket so we’d eat part of one and then just dump the rest in the bucket. But, we still went through a lot of cheeseburgers.”

Burger nostalgia.
“I did a training video for a burger chain, which I won’t mention, in which I played the perfect hostess. And one of my lines was, ‘Here, we always give good phone.’ The whole crew was like, ‘I don’t understand what giving good phone means. Is it like a double entendre?’ The hardest part was saying it without breaking up.”

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Anna and her “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” co-star Bill Hader have interviewed each other for the Moviefone Unscripted series. The questions that were asked were submitted by fans from across the country!

You can watch the entire interview below!

“My relationship with food is very neutral. We’re just friends,” says SNL comedian Bill Hader, while doing press for 3-D animated feature Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs.

Hader voices Flint Lockwood, a crackpot inventor who makes it rain cheeseburgers and pea soup for the local citizens of Chewandswallow, who suffered for years with only anchovies to eat.

Though the film, based on a children’s storybook of the same name, focuses on the town’s growing dilemma of this unstoppable raining food, Hader and co-star Anna Faris say that what they loved most about the film was it’s celebration of geek-dom.

“It’s kind of a cool moment when you realize that that can be attractive to somebody, that being yourself is kinda good,” says Hader.

“I remember the first time I met my wife, I went to her apartment and she had Star Wars curtains. I said, ‘I am going to marry you.’”

“Bill and I are both geeks,” Faris says, before Hader swiftly reminds her to speak for herself. But Faris persists, “I used to wear a Christmas tree skirt as a cape and now I feel cool enough to talk about it.”

Doing the animated film was a challenge for both comedic actors, who thought they were in for an easy ride.

“It’s the hardest job that I’ve ever had,” says Hader. “It’s such a unique challenge to try to channel everything into your voice. You say the same line three times in a row, talk about it and do it again.”

But Faris, who has starred in such comedies as The House Bunny and the Scary Movie franchise, sees a bright side to all that hard work.

“It’s finally a movie I’ve done that people under 10 can see.”

From Metro News

Anna is scheduled to be a guest on “The Ellen Degeneres Show” on Friday, September 18th! The show airs in syndication, so make sure you check your local TV listings or ellen.warnerbros.com for exact air times in your area!

Anna is scheduled to be a guest on “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” on Tuesday, September 15th! The show airs on the NBC network at 12:30am – but make sure you check your local TV listings for exact air times in your area.