Anna Faris and Chris Evans, We've Got Your "Number"!

In their new rom/com What’s Your Number?, actors Chris (Captain America) Evans and queen of funny Anna Faris (House Bunny, Scary Movie) play mismatched neighbors who are meant for each other. He’s Colin, a modern playboy (He hides in her apartment the morning after, while his “dates” leave bewildered) and she’s the gal who has been looking for love in all the wrong places… with 20 guys!  Now, she’s desperate to end the quest and enlists Colin to help her find the ex-boyfriend that might have been “the one”.

We’re lounging at the posh Shutters Hotel at the beach in Santa Monica to get insight from the two stars on hook ups, true love, stalking your ex and we’re asking “Hey, why is Captain America in the buff (sorta) in this movie? (Warning: This film is rated “R” for sexual content and language).

TeenHollywood: Have either one of you looked up an ex on the net? If so, how far did you go?

Chris: I’ve done a little diggin’.  I’ve done my share but Facebook makes all that real easy.

TeenHollywood: So they never knew you were looking for them?

Chris: On no. I succeeded and made contact and now we’re good friends.

Anna: I had my college ex-boyfriend’s class schedule memorized.

Chris: That’s normal….right?

Anna: (laughs) So I would “accidentally” bump into him all the time. He tried to reach out to me six months ago so I feel like I came out on top.

Chris: You win on that one.

Anna: I don’t try to keep in touch with exes. I have like two.  

TeenHollywood: We see a lot of both of you in this movie (skinwise). Is that something you’re comfortable with or was it awkward at all?

Anna: I don’t know about you (Chris) but I love showing my a**.

Chris: That’s right. Well, the first time I read it, I was like “Yeah, there is a lot of skin” but it’s all funny. It’s all funny. It didn’t ever really feel gratuitous. It felt like it was all serving a pretty humorous purpose.

TeenHollywood: Anna, are you that good at basketball? You’re not really, are you?

Anna: What? You could tell?

TeenHollywood: And was that scene between you two always strip basketball? Not that you are totally in the buff or anything….

Anna: No. We were able to secure the Boston Garden so they changed it suddenly to strip basketball and I suddenly had to be at basketball rehearsal every night after work. It’s one of those things you read and don’t actually think “Oh, I’m gonna have to be in my underwear”.  I just thought “Oh, that’s kind of charming”. Then the day comes and, suddenly, you’re wearing like the tiniest clothes of front of people you’ve been working with the last three months. All your credibility is just down the drain (we laugh).

TeenHollywood: Do women really treat some of those magazines like “Marie Claire” like a bible because your character seems to be threatened by the article on relationship “numbers”?

Anna: She’s glued to those. My mom actually didn’t let me read any women’s magazines growing up.

Chris: You didn’t read “Seventeen”? My older sister had all that crap.

Anna: She wouldn’t let me see Pretty Woman. She though that I was going to want to….

Chris: …be a hooker?

Anna: Yeah. So instead, I just got cast in Scary Movie. (laughter, Chris is cracking up). Uh, well these are girls who are trying to figure it out. This gal Ally is particularly lost I the moment in the movie when we meet her and she’s looking for guidance wherever she can find it.

TeenHollywood: Chris were you looking for this type of role as a change up from your new superhero status?

Anna: I love doing comedies and I feel like I hadn’t done one in a little while. I did “Scott Pilgrim” but I was in and out in like four days. That was so out there. I love doing comedies. Any film you do, you can’t help but take a little bit home with you. If you’re doing something really heavy and dramatic, you’re gonna go home exhausted and spent. If you do comedy things like this, you go home cracking jokes. It feels like summer camp. I’m always looking to do a movie like this.

TeenHollywood: So then you think this movie will remind people that you are more than  superhero Captain America?

Chris: (laughs) “He also takes his clothes off”. Yeah, I don’t know. I hope so because I think a good thing about film as opposed to TV is you get variety so you get to flex a lot of different acting muscles. It’s fun to play a certain character and put on a blue suit and toss a shield around and it’s fun to go and crack some jokes and get naked.

TeenHollywood: What was it about this comedy script that really gelled with you?

Anna: I loved how it felt so sharp. I loved playing characters are a bit of a mess. I think for the last decade we’ve seen a lot of women in film that are not that. That are trying to juggle it all in an organized way. I was really excited to play someone who’s lost, unemployed, who drinks a lot, she sleeps around. That was exciting to me. Those scripts don’t come around very often.

Chris: For me, a lot of times when you read those scripts you don’t know who is going to be in the film. I knew it was going to Anna. It is a character that is a mess and Anna’s really good at being a mess. (She punches him in the arm). I mean, she’s funny in every scene. I knew Anna was going to destroy this. I laughed out loud at least six or seven times when reading the script. If that happens, that’s a good sign.

TeenHollywood: Anna, you are a producer on this, what was it about Chris that you wanted for the film? Was there a chemistry read?

Chris: I missed the chemistry read. I was in Houston working on something else and I got sick. I was like, “Well, I just missed my shot” and I begged (the casting director) “please fight for me”.

Anna: I was in New Zealand and they sent me your tape but, it was just so clear. Of course (it should be Chris).  

Chris: He’s such a pig. I can just sense it. (laughter)

TeenHollywood: Why is your guy such a player that he’s pushing women out the door and hiding from them?

Chris: Is that radically new for a guy in his 20’s? That’s pretty standard. There’s that window of time when guys in their 20’s are just selfish and trying to have a good time. They aren’t looking to settle down. At least not a lot of the guys I know.

TeenHollywood: Anna, this was the first movie you and your husband (Chris Pratt) did together as a married couple. Was it a different dynamic?

Anna: Yeah, it was terrifying actually because I think I’m more concerned about his opinion of my acting than anybody else and he is really particular so it was really scary but great. He plays Disgusting Donald (laughter) who is sort of the instigator for my character’s whole journey but I did not cast his fiancé. She was way too hot for my liking! (Chris cracks up).

TeenHollywood: Did you guys practice lines at home together?

Anna: Yeah, we would. It’s just terrifying in general. It’s like your parents or loved ones reading something you’ve written. The scrutiny is going to be much more magnified.

TeenHollywood: Let’s get serious. Anna, your character faces a moment when she finds the strength to really be herself. Have either of you had that moment in Hollywood where, as an actor, you are being pushed in certain directions and have to fight to just be you?

Chris: I’ve never had to compromise who I am, meaning shift the way I present the person I am. Maybe there are things I might not want to do. You’re great but this (press interviews) might not be where I wanna be on my Saturday (us either, although the beach is nice). You’ve gotta jump through those hoops at times but I don’t think that’s a compromise of your integrity so that’s a no.

Anna: In every career you are balancing how you negotiate tricky waters but I think that’s been something nice that comedy has been able to give me; the ability to laugh at myself and hopefully, not take this whole Hollywood world too seriously.

TeenHollywood: Chris you sing and play guitar in this. Was that you or…?

Chris: Yeah I do play guitar and, once upon a time, I used to sing. It’s still awkward to do it in front of people but I wasn’t too scared.

TeenHollywood: And, Anna, was the crazy dancing you do choreographed?

Anna: (laughs). No not choreographed, probably should have been.

TeenHollywood: Chris, you shot in Boston? I know you’re from the area.

Chris: Yeah. I loved it. It was the time of my life. My whole family was 10 minutes away.

TeenHollywood: Watching you shoot some of those scenes?

Chris: No, they weren’t allowed to come on set (he laughs).

TeenHollywood: Anna, as a married woman, and Chris, as a single guy, do you feel the double standard with women sleeping around being called sluts and men doing it being studs is warranted at all?

Anna: No. It’s unfortunate.

Chris: No, of course not. I think the definition of a double standard, is it’s not warranted.

Anna: I think it’s a conversation we can’t help but have. I think there is a bit of a moral identity as women to somehow to link the number of people we’ve been with, or how much experience we have and whether or not we should feel guilty for those experiences. It’s a fun conversation to have, unless you’re asking your husband (laughs). I don’t want to know how many people he’s been with. But do I think it’s a dated, archaic conversation? Yeah. But, it’s still there.