...about Kristen Bell, Josh Duhamel and When In Rome:

1 female star + 5 male stars = More funny.
What clearly separates 'Rome' from your average rom-com is the addition of the wildcard suitors in Shepard as a model, Arnett as a painter, Heder as a street magician and De Vito as a sausage king (actual occupation). "They're all very unique and very eccentric," Bell said. "So when they come together, the scenes with them just interacting is hysterical." At first Duhamel feared, as the straight man, he'd be "the most boring character in the movie," but his journalist Nick was bestowed one idiosyncratic characteristic: He has no peripheral vision. And tunnel vision is funny.

Bell got a workout.
In the scene we watched filmed -- during the Italian wedding of Beth's sister Joan (Alexis Dziena) -- Bell struggles frantically to smash an antique vase against the floor, a local matrimonial tradition ("the number of pieces symbolize the years of happiness you wish for the bride and groom," the actress explained). She failed repeatedly, one take after the next. Could she ever hope of breaking the prop vase? "No, it's rubber," Bell said before deadpanning, "It's indestructible, like my spirit."

There will NOT be full-frontal male nudity in this one. We think.
"God I hope not," Bell answered when asked if any of the actors in 'Rome' will make like Jason Segel in her last romantic comedy, 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall,' and go The Full Monty. Of course, with Danny De Vito in the picture, who regularly raunches it up on the edgy FX sitcom 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,' you never know. (Good news for readers potentially haunted by that image: 'Rome' is rated PG-13.)

Bell won't play favorites.
Despite Bell's offscreen relationship with co-star Shepard -- the two have been dating since 2007, and she sat on the actor's lap in between takes the night we were on set – she quite politically correctly refused to pick a favorite 'Rome' suitor. "Gosh, nail me to the wall," she joked. "I couldn't, they're all so unique." We'll take that as "Dax."

Bell comes to terms with schoolgirl crush.
The actress said she can't relate to Beth's dilemma of having multiple suitors (if it's happened it was unbeknownst to her), but has experienced the other side of group-lust. "In middle school my girlfriends and I always had a crush on the same guy, but he was someone [older] who was completely unattainable who didn't know we were alive." The most memorable object of her affection? A guy named Cory. "I don't know that I ever made contact with Cory, let alone said one word to him, but I swore that I was in love with him." You blew it big time, Cory, wherever you are.

The leads burned for Rome.
When actually in Rome to shoot, the two leads relished in different aspects of La dolce vita. Bell saw all the sights, but found enchantment in the simpler things, "just being on a street where there's a real shoemaker and a real dressmaker and it looks like time has forgotten them." Duhamel, meanwhile, who minored in art at Minot State University, ate up the breathtaking Baroque architecture, and visited landmarks like the Pantheon and Vatican. "I got my very Catholic grandmother a rosary blessed by the Pope, which put me in her good graces." What, she's not a 'Transformers' fan?

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