Excuse us?!

In a recent interview with Vanity Fair, Kristen Bell revealed that when she was younger, she was often criticized for her looks.

“I would get feedback from an audition: ‘Well, you’re not pretty enough to play the pretty girl, but you’re not quirky enough or weird enough to play the weird girl,’” she remembered.

“I was like ‘OK so does that just mean I can’t be an actor? What does that mean?’ That’s what I was getting feedback on in every single audition.”

Still, things eventually turned around. (Thank God!)

“I think as I’ve grown older, those boxes have changed and they’ve almost gone away,” she explained. “It’s this huge gray area now of all these beautiful stories you can tell that have dimensional people that don’t have to be one thing.”

“It’s not the ’80s where you have to have the popular girl and then the nerd who gets the guy. It’s not that anymore and I’m really grateful for that. It opens up a lot of opportunities for everyone to play and pretend, which is the most fun part.”

Thank goodness it’s not the ’80s anymore! That’s certainly true.