Kristen Bell Dishes On Upcoming Projects And A Good Cause

Kristen Bell has a lot going in her life at the moment. Her new movie Astro Boy came out in theaters today, she has another movie, When In Rome, coming out in January, and will begin work on Burlesque with Christina Auguilera. She chatted about it all with Ok!:

“I’m excited. I’m really excited. It’s a different role for me, it’s kind of a departure, which is exciting. I don’t want to be pigeonholed as the bubblegum girl next door and this is getting back to my snarkier roots. There is a lot of dancing in the movie, which is intimidating, but I think Christina is unreasonably talented in pretty much every facet of her life. She has written music for the movie, which is crazy good. I’m excited to start.”

She’s also very involved with the charity organization “Invisible Children”, which films the stories about the unseen war and displaced refugees in Northern Uganda.

“I met the documentarians in San Diego when I was working on Veronica Mars and was so paralyzed by what they presented in this documentary and furious that no one else knew about it,” she recalled. “The numbers of children that are taken weekly, how long this has been going on and the lack of involvement of anyone else in the world to stand up for these people’s humanities… it infuriated me.”

She says that the documentary is powerful.

“it’s not sad music and children that are crying and begging for five dollars. A lot of it is the kids laughing and the story telling about what they live through every day. It’s very powerful because it’s inspiring at the end of the documentary.”

I love when celebrities bring a good cause to the forefront. And it certainly sounds like something she is passionate about.

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