{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "I\u2019m glad Kristen Bell as a thing finally happened, she had amazing range in Veronica Mars, acting as a character who frequently...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/180948655348/", "html": "<p>I\u2019m glad Kristen Bell as a thing finally happened, she had <i>amazing</i> range in Veronica Mars, acting as a character who frequently acted as other people in a way that you could subtly see how Veronica\u2019s acting decisions reflected her actual character</p><p>I\u2019m pretty sure she swept through three layers of persona in the course of a line sometimes, and then Hollywood didn\u2019t know what to do with her, like \u201cI dunno she\u2019s a new young actress maybe put her in a bikini for <i>Forgetting Sarah Marshall</i>?\u201d</p><p>And she looked <i>great</i> in a bikini but even then, it really looked like she might drop out of mind for a while, subsisting on <i>VM</i> nostalgia, but then Frozen and The Good Place (And all those national ad campaigns! Don\u2019t underestimate that!)</p><p>And good for her. She\u2019s done Broadway and Off-Broadway before, I\u2019d love to see her starring on stage some time.</p>"}