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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Kristen Bell opened up (a little) about her life and relationship with Dax Shepard. They filmed the movie 'When in Rome' together.

"We were trying to one-up each other," she says. "That's what we do at home, too. It's like, 'Wait – watch me do this funny bit.' 'No, watch me do this funny bit!.' "

Kristen even shared the secret to their relationship.

"I've learned the necessity for healthy communication. How important it is to talk about your deepest, darkest fears and feelings," she says. "Your partner should hear your most embarrassing insecurities, because once you say them out loud, you've created a safe zone."

Oh, and one more thing.

"A snuggle party can fix anything – it's true," she adds.

Doesn't sound bad to me! Kristen also said she tries to seek a balance between work and downtime.

"There is almost nothing, barring a natural disaster, that I would let eat into my time at home, playing Scrabble with Dax or talking to my girlfriends," Bell, 29, tells Women's Health...

"There's packing your day and then there's jam-packing your day, and I won't do it anymore. I need to decompress. I need to feel like I'm a person – a human being – first."

Sounds like a great set of priorities to me :)

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The cast of the upcoming feature film “Couples Retreat” spoke to Ben Lyons about stripping down for a scene in the film on E!’s “Daily 10” (airing tonight at 7:30 p.m., ET/PT).

When asked if the scene in which everyone strips down made for an awkward day on set, star Vince Vaughn says: “No not really, it was just a fun day on set. You know Faizon (Love) was such a good sport with that I think it's always easier to laugh at yourself I think.”

Writer and star Jon Favreau disagrees: “It was a weird day on set. You know Faizon takes a lot of guff for actually going fully commando and being naked. I wrote that into the script, so it’s my fault. I'm sorry Faison for doing that to you.”

The cast then talked about a scene involving a yoga instructor (played by Carlos Ponce. Hawk says: “Did you see our yoga coach? I'm not turned off by that yoga coach. Wait is my husband gonna see this?”

Vince added: “The thing with Carlos is, the girls really find him attractive, and it made me funnier standing next to him.”

Ben then asked Jason and Kristin if they watched the scene and naturally things got funny.

Jason Bateman : “Well I don't close my eyes anymore around Carlos Ponce ‘cause you might open up a –“

Kristen Bell: “Mixed nuts? And as I always tell Jason it's always been a dream of mine to see another man sit on his face and so for me this –“

Bateman: “See, everybody's got their price. You keep saying that you just need to cut me a check!”

Bell: “It was a true dream of mine, it was fulfilling so thank you.”

Everyone has different dreams right? LOL!!! Will you be heading to the theatre to see this movie?

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