on a recent episode of the \u201cHappy Sad Confused\u201d podcast<\/a> that she loved her \u201cbrilliant cast\u201d but the time commitment became too intense.<\/p>\n\u201cI do think the intensity, towards the end, I think I started to lose my focus,\u201d she told host Josh Horowitz, referring to her time on the show from 2013 to 2020 as a marathon.<\/p>\n
Anna Faris (seen here) shared one reason why she left the series \u201cMom\u201d on the \u201cHappy Sad Confused\u201d podcast. Josh Horowitz\/YouTube<\/p>\n
The actress shared that she loved working with the cast, but the commitment became too intense. Josh Horowitz\/YouTube<\/p>\n
\u201cI never had a job besides waitressing for over three months before,\u201d Faris, 49, admitted.<\/p>\n
When asked if the \u201cintensity\u201d of the filming schedule is what led her to depart the longstanding series, she responded, \u201cIt was a complicated time.\u201d<\/p>\n
The \u201cHouse Bunny\u201d star claimed she would have to work out the details about exactly why she left the show in another podcast episode.<\/p>\n
\u201cI do think the intensity, towards the end, I think I started to lose my focus,\u201d she said. (Seen here: Faris and Allison Janney on \u201cMom.\u201d) CBS via Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cI never had a job besides waitressing for over three months before,\u201d Faris added. (Seen here: Faris and Janney on \u201cMom.\u201d) CBS via Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m always hesitant to really chew into my experience on \u2018Mom\u2019 because seven years is a huge chunk of time,\u201d Faris said. \u201cAnd being a part of an intense, amazing project.\u201d<\/p>\n
Elsewhere in the podcast, the \u201cJust Friends\u201d star revealed why she agreed to sign on to the series alongside Allison Janney as Bonnie Plunkett.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a really funny pilot, a really interesting pilot,\u201d she said, explaining that as she got older, she felt the need to \u201csettle down.\u201d <\/p>\n
The \u201cJust Friends\u201d star also referred to her show departure as a \u201ccomplicated time.\u201d (Seen here: Faris on the show). CBS via Getty Images<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m always hesitant to really chew into my experience on \u2018Mom\u2019 because seven years is a huge chunk of time,\u201d she added. (Seen here: Faris and Janney on \u201cMom.\u201d) CBS via Getty Images<\/p>\n
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\u201cI didn\u2019t think that the movie landscape looked wide open at all,\u201d Faris said. \u201cAn avenue to longevity in Hollywood could be comedy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cBut doing the show \u2018Mom,\u2019 I loved the live audience,\u201d she added, referring to them as the \u201chappiest live audience you can imagine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Until this day, the \u201cScary Movie\u201d star has \u201cMom\u201d fans approach her. <\/p>\n
\u201cI feel really moved that I\u2019ve touched lives,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n
Faris (seen above on June 3) shared that she signed onto the show for stability. John Salangsang\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t think that the movie landscape looked wide open at all. An avenue to longevity in Hollywood could be comedy,\u201d she said. WireImage<\/p>\n
\u201cMom\u201d followed Faris and Janney, who portray a mother and daughter.<\/p>\n
Janney was the official lead for Season 8, however, the sitcom wasn\u2019t renewed for another season.<\/p>\n
The \u201cJuno\u201d star previously shared her dissatisfaction with the show\u2019s cancellation, saying on a previous episode of the \u201cLate Late Show,\u201d<\/a> I wish that we\u2019d had at least another year for the writers to have that much time to ramp up to the ending. We sort of found out sooner than we thought we would.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Anna Faris got candid about her time on the 2010s hit sitcom \u201cMom\u201d before departing the series after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":744247,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[12374,44871,49,48,362,75,337,329,348],"class_list":["post-744246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-actors","tag-anna-faris","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrity-news","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-podcasts","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=744246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744246\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/744247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}