Her latest role may be a glamorous Playboy model in “The House Bunny,” but in her high school days, actress Anna Faris says she sported glasses, odd hairdos and dumpy clothes.
“I was maybe a little eccentric in high school,” she told Playboy’s September issue. “I felt unattractive, short and self-conscious about my body, and I would purposely emphasize that by doing odd things… I was clumsy and awkward.”
Anna couldn’t land a date until her senior year of school, perhaps because of her outlandish fashion sense.
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“When I was a freshman I wore a Christmas tree skirt as a cape,” she said.
At least she probably got a few laughs. And with starring roles in the “Scary Movie” series and “My Super Ex-Girlfriend,” she’s gotten a few more.
Comedy is clearly Faris’ forte, but “The House Bunny” – an original idea of hers — began with a more dramatic concept.
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“About three years ago I was thinking, ‘What happens when a Bunny gets a little too old and it’s time for her to move on and adjust to a different reality?’” Anna said. “I had a dark version, with the character becoming a drug addict and returning to her small Christian Alabama town, but that wasn’t very commercial.”
Instead, the film follows a Playboy bunny who is forced to leave the Mansion and starts over as a sorority house mom, a story with real-life roots for Anna.
“I was in a relationship for eight and a half years, and when I got out of that it was like I had to relearn everything,” she said. “I didn’t know the dance or the nuances of dating, so it was an eye-opening experience.”
But Faris has learned to embrace the new, as viewers of the “Scary Movie” series’ more outrageous moments can attest.
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