Forgetting Sarah Marshall star Kristen Bell spoke with The New York Daily News about auditioning for the role, and playing Sarah Marshall without making her a bitch. She said Jason Segel wrote the part without making Sarah Marshall the bad guy - he gave the audience a chance to like her, even though she dumped our main character.
She also talks about filming the opening nude scene with Jason Segel. She says that Segel was naked for a full two days of shooting and that,
At one point, there was a nylon sock involved,” Bell says. “That just drew more attention to the situation, so we ditched it.
She also talks about the scene in which Show Spoilers
Sarah Marshall’s show
Crime Scene gets canceled and how they filmed that scene two weeks after Bell’s real-life show
Veronica Mars was canceled. Bell says,
I was definitely coming from a place of being saddened about ‘Veronica Mars’ and a truthful place of ‘What is my next job going to be?
Read the whole interview at
NYDailyNews.com.
Release Date 12/5/2008 
