our next guest is a talented young actress starring on the upn television series veronica
mars here's the lovely kristen bell welcome to the show thank you were they playing ring my bell
i'm sure yeah yes we were thank you it's my theme song name that tune welcome to the
program you look wonderful you look lovely thank you now let me ask you a question are
you going somewhere later or are you dressed this way for the show this is for you dave i am
tell us beautiful us uh about yourself where you're from and a bit about your career
uh i'm originally from detroit michigan i grew up on 10 mile which now everyone can reference
because they know eight mile um yeah i i actually i went to nyu and i was sitting in your audience
six years ago five years ago yeah no kidding do you remember who was on the program
no yeah i was i was there to see you oh god bless you i don't i think you know there are no refunds
but it's exciting to be up here i'm nervous it's yeah it's happy i'm
happy to have you here and uh it would if i knew you were in the known in never mind
are you nervous so detroit and is detroit where you started your acting deal yeah kind of i mean i
grew up there i left there when i was 17. but uh i enjoy it there hockeytown it's always a good place
you have no hockey now though do you everyone in detroit is severely depressed about the the
lockout well but detroit is re they're avid hockey fans because growing up you can't really there's
not an option to be a tigers fan i mean we set the city on fire when we won in 84 that's hard to yeah
um but then the lions weren't doing so well now they're actually doing okay but they're uh
big time hockey fans and uh what will happen there's no hockey
they're talking about until labor day they won't get it settled well they
hopefully they'll come to some terms in in january but a third of the season's over now so yeah it's
a sad thing yeah do you know what the issue is the lockout yeah well it's a salary cap thing and it's
the players they want more money basically i heard that it was just they were too cold
that might be it conditions were too chilly yeah yeah that's what i heard it's tough
yeah uh and you're living now in los angeles i just bought a house congratulations that's
a big important landmark in it nice place what kind of yeah it's beautiful yeah it's
just a little house but you know i got a dog and um yeah what kind of dog do you have i
have a a mutt she's a corgi chow and she her body's about this big but her head is like
i kid you not her body's like the size of a dachshund and her head is the size of a horse
and i have been stopped it's so awkward i've been stopped on the street and people go
what an enormous head and it's i'm like thanks i don't know how
so she's awkward we have an intern like that yeah
but uh is it what's the doggy's name lola well a good pet lola very very good it doesn't make
a peep and uh what are you what kind of things do you do in los angeles of course you're always busy
with your career and stuff but uh regular stuff do you have time for regular stuff at the house yeah
sometimes you know moving in is a is a big thing i'm a big outdoors person what kind of stuff do
you do outdoors i like hiking in the canyon i went skydiving on new year's eve see this to me is i i
admire people who do this but i i'm not going to do it because i kind of know what that would feel
like how i just can imagine what it feels like to fall out of an airplane awesome it's awesome dave
it was the most invigorating feeling but of course when i went to the play i went in florida and
there's like 10 instructors and you go tandem so you have a guy strapped to your back and there's
like nine of them look solid you know like they know what they're doing and there's one guy in
the corner who's like fixing this blue wig onto his head to jump and i'm looking around i'm going
i know that's my guy i know that's him and he comes over and he's this um hungarian guy and
he's like kristen now you're ready and i was like oh my god you don't need that no you don't
want him to be wacky there are certain areas in life you don't need a guy to be zany you
need stability that's that's right i see right there i would have packed up and gone home but
you know i went for it i'd already paid i figured what the heck really and and how from how high did
you leave the plane 14 000 feet and did you have trouble exiting i guess you've got a guy on your
back you do whatever well whatever he wants to do pretty much they give you a count of three and if
you don't i jumped but if you don't they push you i saw people that were like one two three and they
were still gripped and the guys were just like at their elbows and you gotta go and so what's that
first moment when you realize okay i've done it is your mouth open or closed when you do it your
mouth is open and it's that thing you see on like funniest home videos where your cheeks go
never seen them they get really big
we have an intern who looks like that
uh and are you just is is it the the worst kind of terror you've ever experienced for a second for
like a nanosecond you think this is it i made a terrible mistake i'm dead yeah and i was
screaming but then like two seconds into it and you fall for like 80 seconds and then you get
to control it and you just you feel like a bird yeah it's great even with a hungarian on your back
now this um the veronica mars show what is that about are you are you veronica martin i am very
cool hey thanks it's um it's kind of like the oc meets twin peaks it's like a dark teen weird is it
peculiar yeah it's if it's a bit peculiar and you solve crimes yes yeah i am i i sort of dabble in
my dad's private investigating so your father is a private investigator and you're veronica mars yeah
and you're you're in high school yes yeah and and also you work on crimes yeah yeah and uh
what kind of crimes are nasty ugly crimes um some of them but mainly sir it's kind of like
has that laura palmer feel where there's a there's a murder that happens right in the
beginning it's my best friend and throughout you're trying to solve that but little cases
that come in and out it's like a modern day nancy drew kind of thing right uh any blue collar crime
you know there's little i mean i'm sorry white collar crime
know what's the matter with me tonight there's there's a little bit of everything yeah you
enjoying yourself yeah yeah and is this the first year the show's been on the air yeah we've only
had four episodes but it's being so well received the critics and the fans are just they're being
wonderful and how do people get the upn get to youvpn yeah how do you get it where does it come
dave i think it's it's 13 in l.a we're on tuesday nights at night it's on regular tv
oh yeah but it's it's like a network the upn network it is it is yeah i knew that
i i knew that it's got good stuff now i know it does it's fine everything's good
um and now we'll be right back again oh i have to say good night now okay yeah i'm sorry that's okay
pleasure meeting you thank you very much for being here kristen bell we'll be right back everybody
you