Kristen Bell remembers being told she wasn’t pretty enough to act

Fashion mavens and VHS haters aren’t the only ones who are glad the '80s are long gone—Kristen Bell is happy that the world has moved on from some of the more terrible things the decade once boasted too. Like, typecasting every female actor in Hollywood and trying to fit them into certain boxes, for one. The Good Place star revealed in a new interview with Vanity Fair that when she was starting out as an actress she was often told she wasn’t pretty enough or geeky enough for roles. As film buffs might remember, those were two trends started by a certain coming-of-age filmmaker whose movies were quite popular in the 1980s (okay obviously it was John Hughes).“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,” Bell said in the video, which takes a bigger look at her career. “It opens up a lot of opportunities for everyone to play and pretend, which is the most fun part.”