Kristen Bell Talks "Hit and Run" on "Today"

Full View  DAX SHEPARD: That’s exactly what happened. We were doing press for a movie that David Palmer, Nate [Tuck] and I made, called Brother’s Justice, and they invariably asked us what we were going to do next and I kept saying, “A car chase movie.” And then, our friend Andrew Panay, who produced Wedding Crashers, finally said, “Hey, aren’t you guys doing a car chase movie? I think I have someone that wants to make it.” And then, I had to actually come up with what the car chase movie was. So, I went away and wrote it, and then we shot it. It all happened within a couple months. It was a very, very fast process. Was there a point when you realized you were actually making a romantic car chase movie? KRISTEN BELL: Not until the test screenings....

Full View  SHEPARD: I was. The commitment was, “Okay, I’m going to put all these people in really insane situations and have these crazy events happen, but I want everyone’s response to be very human, very grounded, very real and very flawed.” So, I was aware of that part. Tom Arnold’s van drives away from him, but it immediately turns into a very emotional exchange. I do recognize that he’s super embarrassed and I try to comfort him, but now he’s so embarrassed that it’s hard to get him back....

Full View  Kristen, have you gotten to record any of your voice work yet for the Disney animated feature, Frozen? BELL: I have, yeah! What’s it like to be a part of a Disney fairy tale? Is that just a dream come true? BELL: It’s so dreamy! It really is, more than anything, a dream come true. I can remember being six years old and watching Sleeping Beauty or Aladdin or The Little Mermaid. I saw Pocahontas and desperately wanting to be Judy Kuhn. I wanted so badly to be a Disney princess, but also be able to sing that role. There’s such a sense of quality. Those Disney cartoons are so consistent. So, I have recorded all of the dialogue and some of the songs....

Full View  BELL: We’re not doing anything exceptionally. We’re very communicative. That’s probably the only thing we know that helps us. SHEPARD: We have sex, yearly. We do that annually. We commit to that. BELL: Yeah. But other than that, there’s no secrets. SHEPARD: Well, there is one secret. I was reading Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell, and there is a chapter in there about a guy who studies couples, and he can predict, with 98% accuracy, who will get divorced by watching them communicate. And the number one key ingredient to a divorce is contempt, so we put a lot of energy into making sure we don’t ever have contempt for one another....

Full View  There's a lot of "auto" in Dax Shepard's debut as an auteur. Shepard (who previously co-directed the mockumentary Brother's Justice) wrote, co-directed and stars in the action comedy Hit and Run; he even cast real-life love Kristen Bell to play the role of his cherished girlfriend, but their romance is not at the center of this movie — rather, it’s the deep love between Shepard and the many cars that populate the film that drives Hit and Run....

  Kristen Bell Talks "Hit and Run" on "Today"

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