Kirsten Bell made the transition 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 she would be open to a reboot of her hit series’ Veronica Mars and The Good Place.
‘I’m very transparent about that!” she told People, all while smiling and laughing. ‘I never wanted either of those shows to end.’
The teen mystery-drama, Veronica Mars (2004-2007, 2019), has already made two returns since its initial three season run on UPN, in the form of a 2014 feature film and a fourth season on Hulu in 2019.
In the series, Bell played a student who progresses from high school to college who moonlights as a private investigator under the tutelage of her detective father.
Kristen Bell, 44, revealed she’d be willing to take part on the reboot of the series Veronica Mars and The Good Place, while promoting her latest small screen role in Nobody Wants This
Veronica Mars has the distinction of being Bell’s first long-running series of her career that dates back to the late 1990s.
As for The Good Place (2016-2020), it has been off the air since it wrapped up its own four-season run on NBC.
The fantasy-comedy series centered 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 Heaven-esque utopian afterlife designed and supervised by afterlife “architect” Michael (Ted Danson).
Bell’s extensive television work also includes taking part in two of the four seasons of Heroes (2007-2008), a superhero drama series for NBC, which led to her gig doing the narration voice for the hit CW series Gossip Girl (2007-2012).
During her time on the teen drama show, the Huntington, Michigan native served as the ‘Gossip Girl’ for all 121 episodes of the show, for which she made just one cameo appearance when she player herself in the finale.
Her last long-running series was for the comedy-drama House Of Lies (2012-2016), which ultimately aired for five seasons on Showtime.
Now Bell is back on television in the Netflix rom-com series Nobody Wants This, co-starring Adam Brody.
Created by Erin Foster, Bell and Brody are joined on 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 that!” Bell told People of her willingness to reprise her roles in reboots of Veronica Mars and The Good Place. ‘I never wanted either of those shows to end’; the actress is pictured in a scene from her four-season run on Veronica Mars
The fantasy-comedy series, The Good Life, centered 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 Heaven-esque utopian afterlife designed and supervised by afterlife “architect” Michael (Ted Danson)
Bell is back on television in the Netflix rom-com series Nobody Wants This, co-starring Adam Brody
The entire season of Nobody Wants This, consisting of 10 episodes, is now streaming on Netflix
Bell dished on her disappearance from the big and small screens these last few years during a recent appearance on her husband Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast.
‘A desire to be creative and leave the house a little more because I have spent the last couple of years being, like, 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 enticed to come back to performing after reading the script was for Nobody Wants This, and seeing the its potential, which is loosely based on Foster, who happens to be the daughter of musician David Foster, who’s married to singer Katharine McPhee.
The entire season of Nobody Wants This, consisting of 10 episodes, is now streaming on Netflix.
