{"id":97268,"date":"2025-10-23T21:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T21:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/97268\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T21:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T21:11:08","slug":"kristen-bell-on-nobody-wants-this-why-she-pushed-back-on-her-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/97268\/","title":{"rendered":"Kristen Bell on \u2018Nobody Wants This\u2019: Why she pushed back on her role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dptlwVDgxxGx\" style=\"display:none\">She explained: \u201cOnce I saw the show, and to be honest, once I saw people seeing the show, because proof is in the pudding, I was like, \u2018Oh wow, this girl is writing about what happens to your neighbour or your girlfriend\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dptlwVDgxxGx\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cSo it wasn\u2019t just because of the success of the show that the second season got easier; it was because Erin [Foster, creator] and I finally saw each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dptlwVDgxxGx\" style=\"display:none\">For Foster, Nobody Wants This is her first project as a creator and showrunner, and she admitted while people involved all had their own visions, she was fighting her own corner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dptlwVDgxxGx\" style=\"display:none\">She said: \u201cThere were a lot of different visions. I just kept saying, \u2018Guys, please trust me\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dptlwVDgxxGx\" style=\"display:none\">Bell insisted the show will put Foster in an elite group with the likes of Tim Burton and Wes Anderson for her own distinct style.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dptlwVDgxxGx\" style=\"display:none\">She said: \u201cNow, if you ask me, I\u2019d say, \u2018I believe Erin Foster will become a reference point in TV and film meetings going forward\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dptlwVDgxxGx\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cPeople will say, \u2018Oh, it\u2019s Tim Burton-esque. It\u2019s Wes Anderson-esque. It\u2019s Erin Foster-esque.\u2019 I just wasn\u2019t adept enough in season one to realise it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"She explained: \u201cOnce I saw the show, and to be honest, once I saw people seeing the show,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1443,6876,1863,2033,16772,23552,71728,156,1364,68497,111,139,12908,69,90,26520,205,20863,1961,14638,4276],"class_list":["post-97268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-about","tag-actress","tag-back","tag-bell","tag-character","tag-claimed","tag-constantly","tag-entertainment","tag-her","tag-kristen","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nobody","tag-nz","tag-on","tag-pushed","tag-role","tag-she","tag-this","tag-wants","tag-why"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}