Kirsten Bell transitioned back to television with the premiere of her new Netflix series Nobody wants this this past Thursday, after taking a few years off from acting.
During the promotional push for the romantic comedy, the actress fondly recalled her past experiences working on the small screen, before confessing that she would be open to rebooting her hit series Veronica Mars and The Good Place.
“I’m very transparent about it!” he said. Peopleall while smiling and laughing. “I never wanted any of those shows to end.”
The teen mystery drama, Veronica Mars (2004-2007, 2019), has already returned twice since its initial three seasons on UPN, in the form of a 2014 feature film and a fourth season on Hulu in 2019.
In the series, Bell played a high school-to-college student who works as a private investigator under the tutelage of her detective father.
Kristen Bell, 44, revealed that she would be willing to participate in the reboot of the series Veronica Mars and The Good Place, while promoting her latest role on the small screen in Nobody Wants This.
Veronica Mars has the distinction of being Bell’s first long-running series in her career dating back to the late 1990s.
As for The Good Place (2016-2020), it has been off the air since it concluded its own four-season run on NBC.
The fantasy comedy series focused on an afterlife in which humans are sent to the “good place” or the “bad place” after death. Bell played Eleanor Shellstrop, a dead woman who is placed in a celestial utopian afterlife designed and overseen by afterlife “architect” Michael (Ted Danson).
Bell’s extensive television work also includes participating in two of the four seasons of Heroes (2007-2008), a superhero drama series for NBC, which led her to provide the narrating voice of the hit CW series Gossip Girl (2007 -2012). .
During her time on the teen drama show, the Huntington, Michigan native She served as ‘Gossip Girl’ for all 121 episodes of the show, in which she only made a cameo when she played herself in the finale.
His last long-running series was the comedy-drama House Of Lies (2012-2016), which ultimately aired for five seasons on Showtime.
Now Bell is back on TV in the Netflix romantic comedy series Nobody Wants This, co-starring Adam Brody.
Created by Erin Foster, Bell and Brody join the cast with Justine Lupe, Timothy Simons, Stephanie Faracy, Tovah Feldshuh, Paul Ben-Victor, Jackie Tohn, Emily Arlook, Sherry Cola, Shiloh Bearman, Stephen Tobolowsky and Ryan Hansen.
“I’m very transparent about it!” Bell told People about her willingness to reprise her roles in reboots of Veronica Mars and The Good Place. “I never wanted any of those shows to end”; The actress appears in a scene from her four-season run on Veronica Mars
The fantasy comedy series, The Good Life, focused on an afterlife in which humans are sent to the “good place” or the “bad place” after death. Bell played Eleanor Shellstrop, a dead woman who is placed in a celestial utopian afterlife designed and overseen by afterlife “architect” Michael (Ted Danson).
Bell returns to television in the Netflix romantic comedy series Nobody Wants This, co-starring Adam Brody.
The full season of Nobody Wants This, consisting of 10 episodes, is now streaming on Netflix
Bell discussed her disappearance from the big and small screens these past few years during a recent appearance on her husband Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast.
“A desire to be creative and get out of the house a little more because I’ve spent the last few years being a full-time mom,” the Frozen star said. ‘I realized, I want to do it again. “I want to feel that kind of electricity again.”
Bell went on to share how she was also drawn to return to acting after reading the script for Nobody Wants This and seeing its potential, which is loosely based on Foster, who happens to be the daughter of musician David Foster, who is married to singer Katharine. McPhee.
The full season of Nobody Wants This, consisting of 10 episodes, is now streaming on Netflix.