Kristen Bell was a big fan of Antonio Banderas. The actress, who is garnering rave reviews for her performance in the latest Netflix release, Nobody Wants This, opened up about putting up posters of her celebrity crushes on the walls of her room.
Bell also shared that during the early days of her romance with her now-husband, Dax Shepard, he took a peek into her teenage room and took a good look at the poster, which led to a hilarious reaction.
During her appearance on the Jimmy Kimmel Live show, the Good Place star mentioned that she admitted to her husband, who apparently didn’t like the image of Antonio B. in the Speedo, that she just did it because of her other friends. Had kept to meet together. ,
Recalling Shepard’s reaction, Bell said, “He opens my closet door, and he sees this huge poster of Antonio Banderas.” He added, “Like a sexy poster, really. And he was like, ‘Ahh.’ And I didn’t think anything of it; It’s been there for, I don’t know how many years, and he said, ‘This poster, huh. Antonio B in a Speedo?’ And he said, ‘Okay, let’s go.'”
While the actress thought it was no big deal, the podcast host picked it up and asked Bell, “‘Do you really like Antonio Banderas? Or were you feeling left out and the first poster Whatever you could get, it belonged to some hot guy, you picked it up and put it on?
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The Frozen star further mentioned that the poster was removed from her bedroom wall; However, years later, after the couple married, Shepard’s podcast co-host, Monica Padman, gifted the two a similar type of Antonio B, which hung above their bed for about six months.
On the other hand, the actress also talked about the rumor of her and her husband being swingers and hosting parties. Speaking to Drew Barrymore on her show, Bell revealed, “My favorite part of that event was that we got a lot of messages from our other friends, ‘How could you not invite me to the swinger party?'”
She added, “And they were joking, of course, because they know us, and they know we’re not hosting swinger parties. It was great to get a message from Kimmel saying, ‘My feelings are deeply hurt that Molly and I weren’t invited to this swingers party.'”
The actress clarified by claiming that she is not a swinger.
On the work front, Kristen Bell appeared in the new Netflix series Nobody Wants This opposite Adam Brody. The episodes are available to stream now.
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