Lake Bell: isn't it about time that the big screen had a female lothario?

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When Lake Bell made the breezy transition from television to movies, she might have imagined that escaping the sleazy lawyers of Boston Legal and the electric mutant amphibians of Surface would assure her an easy ride. "Now I keep getting weird sex scenes," says Bell. "In one movie I'm in the middle of a sex scene with Paul Rudd, and there's his dead fiancee, Eva Longoria, staring at us, singing, 'I believe the children are our future.'" Bell is referring to Over Her Dead Body, the first of three features she has coming out in the next six months.

In May, Bell has a best-friend part in the Ashton Kutcher--Cameron Diaz comedy What Happens in Vegas. Problem is she also has a lust-hate relationship with Rob Corddry. "Corddry and I have a make-out scene that I swear will be talked about." (If it's in the final cut, that is.) Why? "It's so disgusting. It's just creepy," she says with an audible shudder.

"The first movie I shot, though, coming straight out of Surface, was Pride and Glory--a testosterone ensemble--and I play Colin Farrell's wife," Bell says. The cop-family drama, set in Queens, also stars Edward Norton and is directed by Gavin O'Connor.

Henry Cabot Beck is the film columnist for True West magazine and a frequent Interview contributor. Above: Lake Bell wears a dress and belt by

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