Actress Kristen Bell refuses to work outside Los Angeles because she “can’t physically operate in the world” if she is unable to spend time with her family during the day.
Kristen Bell refuses to work outside Los Angeles because she “can’t physically operate in the world” if she is unable to spend time with her family.
The 44-year-old actress is mother to two daughters – Lincoln, 12, and Delta, 10 – with her husband Dax Shepard and Kristen has revealed she won’t take on any acting project that will require her to leave town because she needs to be able to see her partner and her kids every day.
In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, she explained: “I can’t physically operate in the world if I don’t have some part of the morning or evening with my family. I am so rooted in that life, and I can explain it best by saying, I like being an actress, but I love being Kristen.
“And if I had to choose between the two, I would quit this career in a heartbeat.”
Kristen explained she made the decision after Lincoln was born and she’s stuck to LA-based projects ever since.
She added: “About 12 years ago, because my oldest is 12, I was like: ‘What if I just tried to see if I had leverage to be like, I’m not going to shoot outside of L.A. anymore?’
“No matter how good the director is or how good the script is, I won’t do it. I wouldn’t care enough. I’m not trying to do the Revenant 2 in wherever they shot that. I don’t need to do that. It wouldn’t fulfill me.
“So, I said: ‘Don’t even send me anything if it’s not shooting in L.A. or if it’s not early enough in the development that I can say: ‘We have to shoot in L.A.’ and I’ve been really, really lucky.
“But that does bleed in a little to the, when I get there in the morning, I will absolutely compartmentalize and shut that off and I’m never trying to bring baggage to set unless it’s happy, playful, fun stuff that would excite us.
“But then, at the end of the day, I’m not really here for: ‘Let’s do a couple [takes] more just for us’. If we’ve got it, I need to go home and reconnect with my family because otherwise I can’t come in tomorrow.”
Kristen Bell refuses to work outside Los Angeles
