TheGoodPlace star Kristen Bell on the sitcom’s final season, working with Ted Danson, and why she may take a hiatus from acting
’s fourth and final season this summer, we spent over an hour taking refuge in her trailer from the brutal heat, discussing her experience of making the series, getting ready to say goodbye to it — and, perhaps, to regular acting work for a while — and the meaning of making a show about being good at a time when the world seems so bad. True to form, Bell had a lot to say about every subject.
Do you find yourself thinking even more about morality and ethics and how to be a good person since you’ve done the show, or is it about the same as when you started? There’s this longstanding, toxic thesis of the business, which is that some geniuses need to be assholes in order to be geniuses. I don’t care about food that much, and everyone kept talking about how this one place had an AMAZING salmon bowl, and I said, ‘I don’t like salmon because it smells and tastes like ocean garbage,’ and they said, ‘No no no, you don’t understand, blah blah blah.’ So I ordered it, and it was a slimy sea slug on a bed of weird grain, and I groused about it for like 11 hours.
Your other co-stars, this was basically their first significant job. For Jameela, it was her first acting job of any kind. And she told me that for the first half of the first season, she couldn’t even look you in the eye. She said she would look over to Will when playing scenes with you because she was afraid to make eye contact.She looked me in the eye! She’s being dramatic. We were fine. We lucked out so much with how quickly everyone who was green was not green anymore.
What is it like for you as an actor to have this density of jokes in every background? You turn the corner and suddenly there’s a sign that says, “Lasagne Come Out Tomorrow.”
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