Anna Faris (Scary Movie I-IV)

Anna Faris is the chick from Scary Movie I-III. She's the one who made such good fun of Neve Campbell's character Sidney Prescott from the Scream trilogy under the watchful tutelage of the Wayans Brothers. Little known as well is the fact that Anna appeared alongside fan favorite Angela Bettis in the quirky indie horror May. She also rocked in her non-horror role in Sophia Coppola's breakout love story Lost in Translation, and made a mild splash in the sugary and trite The Hot Chick. Anna Faris is just as fun and funny in interviews as she is onscreen. There's genuineness there, the sort of quality that you see in her comedy, but never believe you'll see again. With several new films coming out this year, her comedic talents won't be wasted!.

To give you an example of how much fun she is, she has an interesting rationale behind why she hates photo shoots. She had just finished a photo shoot for Zink Magazine when I interviewed her.

I have a hard time with photo shoots because, I just, people assume that actors would be good at photo shoots, I feel like, you know, when you're acting, you spend so much time trying to ignore the camera, and not play into vanity, and then with a photo shoot you're doing the exact opposite. You have to be confidant and pose-y. But this one was great because they didn't want me to stare into the camera a whole lot, I didn't have to be, like sexy little faces! I just feel like an idiot doing that.

Anna in Scary Movie 3

She also hates TV interviews. Want to hear why?

It is five minutes and you feel like you really have to perform. You feel like these people really want you to say something funny and clever and naughty, and they're begging for it. They'll look at you, with this huge grin on their face, and smiling and nodding at every dumb thing you say. I feel like I always let them down.

Her husband is actor/hottie Ben Indra, and together they have some very beautiful little kittens. Oh yes, kittens.

I have two kittens. One is black with gray and white paws, and she's a year old, and she's gotten a little bit touchy. The other one we just got from the pound and she's three months old, and she's blond with blue eyes. So sweet. . It's a handful, because they wake us up every night. They're always attacking our feet, scratching our backs. I imagine it's like the first step in what it would be like to have a child.

Anna looking more childlike and brunette in Scary Movie 1

What draws me to Anna, besides her awesome sense of humor, is that we seem to have so much in common, and she knows how to party. Is that shallow?

I live a little bit younger when I am on location. It's fun, but then I'll call my husband at 4 am drunk and he'll be like, 'What have you been doing'? But it's a great way to meet new friends.

Scary Movie was her first real gig. To hear her describe the flick it just goes to show that fate is not to be trusted, and luck is about half of everything in the entrainment business; unfortunately for the less successful, the other half is talent-related.

They called me and said, 'Why don't you put your self on tape for this movie Scream If you know what I did Last Halloween, which became Scary Movie. So I put myself on tape and its awful, it's like; my mom is feeling me on her 1992 camera in front of the camera. I'm laughing halfway through. So they asked me to fly down and audition, and I did, and I auditioned like 8 times. I was so naïve! If I knew then what I know now! I would have been much more nervous. But I was like, 'I am so gonna get this role'. I didn't even have a headshot or an agent. And I did end up getting it, which was amazing! And as soon as I got it, I got really scared. I thought, 'Ohhh they are gonna fire me. They don't know what they've done. They have hired somebody who has no idea!' I mean, I had done a few things, in the theater, but nothing like this. It was a small budget, I found out later, but felt like a 100 million dollar movie. I mean the sets, the dressing rooms!it was really eye opening. As far as comedy goes, I hadn't done any comedy before. I had only done dramatic stuff. Keenan taught me a lot. It really was like jumping off a high dive. It was like, 'ok, I am going to do this sex scene, and dive right into it, and put all my hesitations aside, praying my mom isn't watching this'. It really was about learning that humiliating yourself is okay. It's okay for people to laugh at you. Keenan told me one time, 'There's no vanity in comedy' and I was like, 'ooooooh that's gooood. I have to really embrace that. Sperm is covering my entire body'.

When she got the role for Scary Movie, she was gothic. That's' right, little known fact, she was a Goth.

I had just graduated from University of Washington. I was still living in Seattle, and I met my current manager. I was like, 'Great!' I was very naïve about everything down here. Lie, I came down wearing like all black, skirts, like, to the floor, I wore really really heavy black eye makeup, I just didn't think that that was different, though, necessarily.

Anna being slightly more goth-esque that usually Hollywood will permit

So how did Anna get the role in May?

Lucky McGee saw Scary Movie, and we were shooting Scary Movie 2, and we stopped for a few weeks and I shot it right in there. It was so different, and more sophisticated. I felt like I had been playing this really naïve girl who was sexually innocent, and I wanted to go away from that. I didn't realize how tough it would be. I feel like now I need at least three or four weeks in between each job. When I came back and we started shooting Scary Movie 2 again, Keen an came up to me, and called 'cut' and said, what's wrong with your voice? Why is your voice deeper?' I realized I am one of those actors that need a little bit of time and headspace between jobs.

Anna in Lucky Mcgee's May

May was a really fun experience. It was so different from Scary Movie 2. It felt like a bunch of friends shooting a movie. It was intense. I think I only worked four days on it. I remember there' a scene where Angela shows up at my door crying. Crying is HARD for me; I have to use that menthol stick. I don't even cry in normal like. It's awful, I hate it! If I'm drunk, sometimes I'll cry. But I remember she said she needed a minute, she walked away, and she came back a minute and a half later, just sobbing. I thought, Wow, here's an actress, what am I doing?

So check it out: Lucky Anna has been in TWO FILMS with pretty/Scary horror hunk favorite Ryan Reynolds. They both haven't come out yet; one is called Waiting, about a group of, well, waiters, and the other, also a comedy, is called Just Friends.

A Romantic comedy!I play a really crazy pop star, a sexual maniac. It's a crazy role, I make fun of people, and I make fun of people all the time, but I'm still so stupid that there's a bit of endearing about her. There's nothing that sophisticated there, everyone can laugh at it.

And what about working with Ryan?

He is a really wonderful person. It's my dream to work with him again. I have done two movies with him now. He definitely is an Alpha male. If something is going wrong onset, he'll be like, 'What the hell is this?' but not in a bitchy actor way. In a leader kind of way. He's also so generous. He'll come up with the funniest lines, and funny adlibs. He really is about making the project better, I adore him.

So the brilliantly funny and pretty scary woman Anna Faris can also be seen in the upcoming Brokeback Mountain, a movie that she has a small role in, but is proud to be in nevertheless, and the sequel to the Scary Movie Trilogy Scary Movie 4, which is due out in 2006 sometime, though they have yet to start shooting.