After bursting onto the acting scene in the Scary Movie franchise, Anna Faris has gone on to make a name for herself in campy, fun, and lighthearted movies. Since appearing in Scary Movie in 2000, Faris landed roles in such films as Lost in Translation and Brokeback Mountain, but it was her work in movies like Waiting, My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Just Friends and Mama's Boy that helped to cement her as one of today's "hottest" comedy actresses. Now Faris is taking her comedic game to new heights in The House Bunny, about a Playboy Bunny who gets expelled from the Playboy Mansion only to take up shop with the girls of the Zeta Alpha Zeta sorority - Emma Stone, Rumer Willis, Kat Dennings, Dana Goodman and former American Idol Katharine McPhee - who are just as lost as Faris' ex-Bunny Shelley.

At The House Bunny press conference in L.A., we had to remember to turn on our recorder since we couldn't take our eyes off of the lovely Anna Faris, who really could be a Playboy Bunny if she wanted to ditch the acting career.

Can you talk a little bit about the preparations you had in playing this character and to what extent did you or could you identify with her?

ANNA FARIS: Well, I would like to say that I slept with Hef, but I didn’t. I’ll dispel that rumor right now. I was thinking about three years ago, about what happens when it’s time for the next phase of life for some of these girls that have lived at the Playboy Mansion and how do you sort of re-enter the real world? I pitched the character to these ladies [Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith] and they wrote a script and together we produced it, and the next thing you know we’re shooting at the Playboy Mansion. I have to admit I did very little to emotionally prepare to play Shelley Darlingson. [laughs] I guess she’s always been in there somewhere, but I did workout, you know, I got some hair extensions, wore a lot of padded bras. That’s the extent of my prep.

When you pitched the story were you able to imagine yourself as a bunny and what was it like shooting in the Playboy Mansion alongside such enhanced...

FARIS: [laughs] Yeah, it was really intimidating. When we went and pitched it I would be in character, so I was starting to really already have a really clear vision of who Shelley was. Having said that, yeah, it was really intimidating. I kept feeling like, ‘I don’t belong in this crowd.' You know, all of these girls are very hot and confident and I felt really self conscious for sure.

Was the idea of playing a Bunny before hand intimidating at all before you could even envision yourself as that?

FARIS: I thought that maybe people wouldn’t, like the studio world wouldn’t necessarily see me as that. So that was intimidating. But when I floated the idea past my mom, who’s pretty conservative, she was like, ‘You’re doing what?’ And now of course she’s like, ‘I’m so proud of you.’, which is nice.

The notes say something about three hours in make up. Are the shoes the toughest or...?

FARIS: [laughs] Shelley, she’s got a lot of hair, she likes a lot of make up. We had to do a lot of body make up and make up to make my cleavage look bigger. But the shoes, getting into the wardrobe definitely took a good twenty minutes or so. It was a challenge. The shoes I loved, as I think everybody knows I kept them all. I still will put them on at night and trot around in them. I don’t go anywhere, but... Yeah, I loved wearing those.

What would you like to say to bloggers or people who like to write mean things about you or the way you look? What would you say to that considering as how I feel like in this movie you make the statement that it really doesn’t matter, and that you’re really comfortable with yourself?

FARIS: Everybody has an opinion and we live in American, so you’re allowed to. And the thing about it is, the media is a very interesting outlet, because it allows people to see who they think you are, an idea of you. But it might not necessarily be who you are. And as long as you are comfortable with who you know you really are and true to be, and your friends and the people around you know that and who you really are, that’s all that really matters.

Was it hard for you to keep a straight face?

FARIS: Yeah, luckily Shelley smiles a lot. But it was - there were times for sure that it was really hard, especially when we were doing the weird voices thing, because these girls were really funny about it. You know, I think that’s just one of the many joys I get out of what I do. And being in comedy, I feel really fortunate that I get to work in an environment where we’re laughing all of the time.