NEW YORK (AP) – Lake Bell can be annoying when she’s watching TV or a movie with her husband. That’s because she tends to watch with a director’s eye.
“My husband gets very frustrated,” she said in a recent interview. “We sit down to watch a movie and I’m like, ‘I can’t. This piece of casting is really taking me out of the movie.’ He’ll be like, ‘Lake, what’s taking me out of the movie is you talking.’ I’ll be like, ‘I’m sorry, I’m sorry’ and a minute later I’ll be like, ‘Why would you light like that?'”
Bell, 36, is a busy actress with roles in the upcoming Netflix revival of “Wet Hot American Summer” and Adult Swim’s off-kilter comedy “Childrens Hospital” (airing Fridays at midnight). She’s now filming the crime thriller movie “Shot Caller” with Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Jon Bernthal.
Bell is also a director. She wrote, directed, co-produced and starred in 2013’s “In a World,” which received positive reviews. Her next film, an adaptation of “The Emperor’s Children” based on the book by Claire Messud, is in pre-production. Noah Baumbach is writing the screenplay.
She talked about her various projects with The Associated Press in a recent interview.