Hello and welcome to armchair expert. I am Dack Shepard and today my guest is the lovely Kristen Bell.

She was Veronica Mars, Sarah Marshall, Princess Anna, and she is currently Eleanor Shellstrop in the good place.

She can sing, she can dance, she can do drama, she can do comedy, she's frustratingly talented

and special and above all those things, she's my wife and even more importantly she's an

incredible mother to our girls. What is funny about this interview is that I

naively assume this would be a slam dunk because we've acted opposite one another and a bunch of things and done dozens of interviews together.

And for the most part, those things have always been pretty effortless. And in full

full disclosure, she was my first interview because I was so confident it would go well.

But on this day, this day you're about to hear,

we just were not getting along.

We were bickering and impatient with one another

and the first half of the interview was a struggle.

In fact, I considered just leaving this unreleased because truthfully I'm embarrassingly controlling throughout most of it and she is, by my estimation, very suspicious of my motives throughout.

But ultimately, I have decided to put it out

because it's real and true.

And we do find our way back to liking each other by the end.

In short, I want you to think of this episode as the antidote to our Samsung commercials.

Please enjoy.

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