Anna Faris is featured in the April/May 2012 issue of BlackBook Magazine.
It’s also the mag’s Comedy Issue!
In the issue:
For over a decade the delightfully daffy Anna Faris has been making people laugh in movies like The House Bunny, Observe and Report, and the four films of the Scary Movie franchise. She’s even lightened the mood in heavier Oscar-winning fare likeLost in Translation and Brokeback Mountain. With a role playing opposite international prankster Sacha Baron Cohen in The Dictator and a rumored return to the cast of Scary Movie 5, Faris continues to prove she’s a comedic force to be reckoned with. In the cover story of our April/May issue, Faris reveals what makes her laugh (it involves the phrase “mammary glands”) and reveals that her status as a cinematic comedienne was accidental.
It wouldn’t be The Comedy Issue without a few more jokesters, which is why we reunited Jeff Who Lives at Home costars Jason Segel and Ed Helms for an epic jam session, proving they’ve got the musical chops to shift careers (not that we wantthem to quit their day jobs). Community and Mad Men‘s Alison Brie chats about bringing humor to two very different hit TV shows, and she opens up about her role in the upcoming comedy The Five-Year Engagement. Critically beloved writer-director Whit Stillman, whose Damsels in Distress hits theaters in early April, explains his 14-year absence from filmmaking. And we answer the burning question that everyone’s been asking: are gay guys funny? (Spoiler alert: they are!)
Anna’s new film The Dictator releases May 11.