I have added 434 captures of Anna from “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” and 253 HQ captures from “The Ellen Degeneres Show” into our photo gallery! She was on these two shows to promote the release of “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs”… You can see captures from each show by clicking on the thumbnails below.

Anna Faris is best known to moviegoers for her comedic turns in the Scary Movie quadrilogy and more adult fare like The House Bunny and the controversial Observe and Report. Her parody of the infamous Ring phone call in Scary Movie 3 is classic. Now she has lent her voice to the family-friendly, 3D animated film Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs, in which she plays aspiring TV meteorologist Sam Sparks, who stumbles upon the story of a lifetime when she visits the town of Swallow Falls, where food literally rains from the sky. While in New York to promote her latest movie, she spoke about her character, working in animation, memories from her childhood and her geeky high school years. With her film career continuing to grow, she is indeed proof that geeks are inheriting the earth — and that many are cuter than people think.

How did you develop your character? Did you get a chance to go back in and do more voiceover work once you saw the renderings?
They showed us a drawing of our character before we started recording, and that was all we had. They wrote pretty specific characters, so it wasn’t a huge search [to find her]. We worked for about a year and went back in to tweak all the animation. It was pretty incredible to see it all come to life.

What do you find appealing about voice acting that is different than being in front of the camera?
It is incredibly challenging. They asked me to do this movie, and I was so excited because it was a book that I grew up with. I felt really honored to be asked to do what I love doing. I did some voice work early on in Seattle when I was growing up, and I loved the idea of doing it again. It’s finally a movie that I’ve done that people under 10 can see. My parents are happy.

Do you recall your first acting job?
I was nine and did an Arthur Miller play called Danger: Memory! at the Seattle Repertory Theatre. I got paid $250, which was huge. I was rolling in the dough. I think I’m still living off of that. Then I went out and bought a piano phone. It was pretty awesome.

What was Comic-Con like this past summer?
I had never been to Comic-Con before, and I had a fantastic time. I mean, it’s a show. What surprised me was how happy everybody is there. They’re looking forward to this all year, so you’re in an environment that for the most part is really supportive and really joyous. I can relate to the idea of escaping through a character, so it was really cool to see all of these people doing the same thing.

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Based on the popular children’s book, “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs” is a story about awkward inventor Flint Lockwood (Bill Hader), who sets out to save his town with the help of an invention that turns water into food. When one of his inventions goes awry, it’s up to brainy weathergirl Sam Sparks (Anna Faris) and Flint’s trusty monkey Steve (Neil Patrick Harris) to save the town…and the world. The film also features an eclectic supporting cast of James Caan, Mr. T, and Bruce Campbell.

During the film’s press day, I had the opportunity to interview co-stars Anna Faris and Bill Hader about the making of the film.

Q: Did either of you read the book before or after the film?

Anna Faris: Yes, as kids. It was really great to see it come to life like this.

Bill Hader: Yeah, before the movie. We were big fans growing up.

Q: We asked the directors why they had selected you to play the roles?

Anna: Hey! What are you saying? (laughter)

Bill: We were the cheapest actors. Everyone else was too expensive.

Q: During the film, how much ad-libbing were you allowed to do?

Anna: We talked about this. We really didn’t do a ton. You’re saying one line over and over again. Actually, you’re pretty constricted in some ways in terms of ad-libbing.

Bill: It’s not like you do a full scene. It’s like you say “Hey guys, what’s going on? HEY guys, what’s going on? Hey GUYS, what’s going on?” You know what I mean?

Q: How do you get your inspiration because you guys are doing it by yourselves, right?

Anna: It’s hard. We were lucky enough to have meetings (with the directors). That gave us a good sense on how we were playing the roles. We’d have to be told “She’s really frustrated right now.” or “This is the scene where she goes into anaphalactic shock and there’s a peanut brittle cave and you lower a licorice rope” (laughter)

Q: Does it get really exhausting?

Anna: That was the most surprising element.

Bill: We were both not prepared for that at all.

Q: Which is harder for you, voice acting or motion pictures?

Bill: Voice acting is really tough, because your whole performance is channelled into your voice. I would do something and add all this physicality to it and they would go “It looks great what you’re doing in front of us, but the voice is not…. could you put that energy you used in your body into your voice. So, that was difficult.

Anna: I think the exact same thing. They would film us doing it and use our gestures and whatever we put into the characters movement, they used. You’re giving a full performance, but you’re alone for the most part. So, you have nothing to react to.

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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!