The New York Post has posted a little note about Kristen’s Emmy dress (”The blue period ran the gamut from Kristen Bell’s cornflower Grecian toga to Tina Fey’s navy Carolina Herrera”) and a big article about her role on heroes:
POWER GIRL
‘VERONICA MARS’ REFUGEE KRISTEN BELL RESCUED BY ‘HEROES’
By MAXINE SHEN
September 16, 2007 — The hottest actress on television has joined the coolest series. Veronica Mars, meet “Heroes.”
Kristen Bell, the sunny star of the cult TV fave, didn’t think she’d have a job this fall – especially after the CW kept “Veronica Mars” hanging in the balance until the absolute last second, not announcing the show’s cancellation until well after it announced its fall lineup.
“There was about a month when I was taking meetings every day and going on audition after audition,” says Bell, 27. “I thought, maybe I won’t have a job this fall. I can accept that and I can still be happy.”
Meanwhile, television producers were knocking each other over to hire her.
In the first week of August, Internet wags reported that Bell, who had signed on to narrate the new CW series “Gossip Girl,” was a lock to join the cast of ABC’s “Lost.” Two weeks later, these magpies were choking on their words when NBC announced that Bell would be joining their hit serial drama “Heroes,” for a 13-episode arc this fall.
On the eve of her October debut on “Heroes,” Bell reveals that “Lost” producers never actually offered her the role.
“I didn’t hear about the ‘Lost’ rumors until they were already on the Internet. [Then] I knew I was being considered for [that show], but ‘Heroes’ came along and made the offer,” she says.
That offer was definitely put on the fast track by Bell’s connections to many of the folks at the NBC series. She’s friends with Zachary Quinto (Sylar) and Masi Oka (Hiro), and has known Hayden Panettiere (Claire) since she was 18 because they shared a manager (”Kristen likes to say she practically changed my diapers,” quips Panettiere).
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