Kristen Bell says cameras missed a top-tier performance: the one she gave while pitching her new Netflixseries, a satire on psychological thrillers like “The Woman in the Window”And “The Girl on the Train.”
“Trying to convince different networks and streaming platforms what we were trying to do when the tone had really never been done before, that was some of my best acting,” she says lightheartedly. “‘Trust me, it’s going to be funny, and it’s going to be scary and suspenseful.'”
Bell is an executive producer “The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window,”An eight-part limited series is now streaming. She plays Anna, a woman who is weighed down by her grief after the death three years prior of her daughter. This resulted in her marriage crumbling.
She spends her days observing life in the neighborhood and becomes infatuated with a new neighbor, Neil (Tom Riley), a good-looking single dad whom she grows suspicious of after seemingly witnessing a murder at his house through her window. Anna’s habit of mixing booze with medication can lead to hallucinations so it’s possible she didn’t see anything.
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Anna draws on the characteristics of protagonists in thrillers like this to make it funny. She prefers red wine by the bottle and not by glass. Instead of being agoraphobic, like Amy Adams’ character in Netflix’s “The Woman In The Window,”Anna, for instance, has paralyzing fears of rain.
“The show starts out subtle, but you start to notice the clichés,” says Bell. “For instance, my character’s self absorbed personality. She is an artist, and she can’t paint anymore (due to her grief). But she knows she should because she thinks she’s too good. And you see her paintings, and they’re very average.”Bell claims that “character is the least like me I’ve ever played”Because “I don’t drink or stare at my neighbors.” But she sees Anna as ultimately “a kind person at heart, and she is sincere.”
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Rachel Ramras (co-creator), is an avid reader and writer of this genre. “the title is a way of letting the audience know you can laugh, and you should be looking for the funny moments, as well as the scary and exciting moments.”
Ramras and her fellow showrunners, Hugh Davidson and Larry Dorf, have a background in comedy (“The Looney Tunes Show,” “Mike Tyson Mysteries”), but they took their new series very seriously.
“This isn’t like a spoof, where we’re making fun of the ways those movies were shot or anything like that,” Davidson says. “Ours is totally committed to being a thriller, while at the same time pushing certain elements to such an extent that you could find it absurd and let yourself laugh at it.”
“It’s like we took a psychological thriller and turned everything up to an 11,”Dorf:
Ramras claimed that the writing team had worked with Ramras.Sharp Objects” creator Marti Noxon on an outline for “The Woman in the House” to ensure the series played out like a true thriller.
“If at the end of the day you’re not feeling like, ‘I have to watch the next episode to find out what happens,’ then it doesn’t matter how funny it is,”Ramras. “So it was a challenge for us as writers.”
Bell faced many challenges in the series. “It was difficult to keep a straight face in a lot of the romance scenes because they were so cliché,”She said. There was also the scene when she had to be covered in mushroom soup while shooting a fight scene. The icy shots when Anna, an ombrophobic, was caught in the rain.
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“I was being covered in ice-cold water all the time when it was 50 degrees outside. That’s not the most glamorous job I’ve ever had,”Bell said. “We wanted that every time she went outside that she had this imposing threat. (So) was I sopping wet for half the shoot? Absolutely.”
Bell is also a big fan of the series’ finale. “There was a part that was so outrageous when I was reading it, and yet it felt fully truthful to the tone we were attempting to commit to. It felt right, even though it’s absolutely absurd, and I don’t think there’s going to be anyone who watches the first episode and can predict the ending. And I say that as a person who was on ‘The Good Place,’ where we found out we were in hell. That was more predictable to me than how this show ends.”
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