August 29.2008

Movie Minute: The House Bunny

By News Desk

Anna Faris plays a 27-year-old Playboy Bunny who gets kicked out of the mansion for being too old, in the new movie The House Bunny. After leaving, she finds herself a job as the house mother to a bunch of misfit sorority girls. It's a story that, as Faris told us, she had a hand in creating.

"This was a movie where I had come up with the character a few years ago, and I then pitched it to the writers of Legally Blonde, and they wrote the script, and together we pitched it all around town. And we were able to make it. It was incredible for me. I had never produced anything and it was really exciting."

Assisting Faris was Adam Sandler's Happy Madison Productions, the company who brought us Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison and other funny flicks. Anna said Sandler was great to work with.

"He was really supportive, really excited. Heard the idea and was right away like, 'Let's do this!' And I guess when somebody as powerful as Adam Sandler says that then that's what happened, which was awesome. He was really hands-on in the decision-making and wrote a bunch of jokes for it and came to set. And it was great to have his support."

The House Bunny also stars Colin Hanks, Emma Stone, Katharine McPhee, Rumer Willis and Hugh Hefner.

Opening in cinemas in Singapore on October 1.