SOME PARENTS

“'But everyone says you’re always so kind and thoughtful on the set,' Karen said. 'David Zucker'—who directed Faris in 'Scary Movie' 3 and 4—'sent you a card saying you were a director’s dream.'”

'That’s because I was willing to get hit in the head a million times,' Faris said. In the course of the four films, her character, Cindy, gets choked, kicked, run over, pegged in the head with a football, told she has 'orangutan titties,' called a 'fuckin’ tease' by a parrot, and hosed into a wall by gallons of semen, among many other indignities. She told me, 'It started to break me a little, all the physical stuff I had to have done to me.'"

~ T. Friend

"Funny Like a Guy" | The New Yorker
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/04/11/funny-like-a-guy

“'Yeah, why did you accept that?' Karen asked. Jack Faris grinned at his wife’s fluid transition to offense.

'Because you taught me not to be a baby,' Faris said. 'I blame you! I wanted to be one of the guys!'

'That’s right!' Karen said.

Earlier, she had told me, 'I remember saying to Anna, ‘You have a cute figure, but you don’t have to show it off. And, if you use your period as an excuse, that shows weakness. Be tough.’ ' Every month or so, Faris sends her mother a vintage postcard of a buxom starlet emerging from a waterfall, or unzipping her top, with an impish note on the back: 'Hey Mom—trying to make it as an actress in LA—met this great photographer, and he says I’m going to be a star!' 'It gives me such joy,' Faris told me, 'because I know how mortified my mom is going to be that the postman has seen them.'”

~ T. Friend