Kristen Bell, who you may know as the voice of Gossip Girl or as the harlot who broke Jason Segel’s heart in Forgetting Sarah Marshall or as “Holy crap, I didn’t think it was humanly possible for someone to be that adorable,” is set to star alongside Don Cheadle in a new dark comedy for Showtime called House of Lies. The premium channel has hit the ball out of the park time and again with new comedies – a few years ago it was Nurse Jackie and more recently it was The Big C – so it’s no wonder that the starlet wants to lend her talents to another comedy for SHO.
She’ll play an Ivy League grad who works at a consulting firm run by Marty (Cheadle), a “self-loathing” management consultant who’ll stop at nothing to get his customers what they need, presumably even if that means doing the wrong thing. From the looks of things, her character, Jeannie Van Der Hooven, is going to give Cheadle’s baddie a run for his money. Wait did they swipe name ideas from Gossip Girl too? Swap a few letters and Jeannie becomes a Van Der Woodsen.
This pilot will make Bell’s schedule very busy, she just wrapped Everybody Loves Whales and has another film in the works in addition to her Gossip Girl voicing duties, but I guess it’s better to be an overworked actor than an out of work one.
Source: Deadline
