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Kristen Bell Would Make 'Any Day' a Reboot of Veronica Mars or The Good Place (Exclusive)

A Veronica Mars or Good place start anew? Never say never, says Kristen Bell.

The 44-year-old actress recently returned to the big screen to star in the Netflix rom-com series Nobody wants that After taking a break for a few years, she says she is open to resuming one of her popular shows.

“I’m very transparent about that!” she tells PEOPLE with a laugh. “I never wanted any of these shows to end.”

Veronica Mars did Returning for a fan-funded film in 2014 and for a brief revival season on Hulu in 2019. But The good place has been off the air since it ended in 2020 after four seasons.

Kristen Bell and Ted Danson in The Good Place.

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Veronica Mars, The series, which premiered 20 years ago in September 2004 and starred Bell as a college student with a part-time job as a private investigator, was Bell's first long-running television series – well, in which you could see her face, anyway.

After the popular teen drama ended after four seasons in 2007, Bell famously served as the voice of the title gossip Girl in the hit CW series with 121 episodes.

Although she appeared as Gossip Girl in every single episode between 2007 and 2012, she never made a physical appearance on the series – except for a cameo playing herself in the finale.

Kristen Bell in 2022.

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Now it's back on Netflix Nobody wants thatwhere she plays an agnostic sex podcaster who falls in love with a mild-mannered rabbi (Adam Brody). Recently she was with her husband Dax Shepard Armchair expert podcast to explain why she returned to acting after a few years off.

“The desire to be creative and get out of the house a little bit more because I've been kind of a full-time mom for the last few years,” she says Frozen Star said. “I realized I wanted to do it again. I want to feel that kind of electricity again.”

Bell recently told PEOPLE that she was also drawn to the script, which is loosely based on the real life of show creator and producer Erin Foster (the daughter of musician David Foster).

“Erin wrote a very interesting romantic comedy that had a lot of depth and was very modern,” says Bell. “Just the fact that she chose to be this agnostic podcast host and kind of an unconventional rabbi, people who are kind of ill-starred, people who want to be together but shouldn't when the world against them… there is.” There’s inherently a lot of history behind that.

Kristen Bell and Adam Brody in Nobody Wants This.

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“I think interpersonal relationships are very interesting when you're dealing with different outlooks on life or obstacles that you might encounter… like what it actually means for people from different backgrounds and different outlooks on life to acknowledge those differences in the name of a cause “They call it love,” she adds. “It is a adult Romance.”

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