While Kristen Bell originally had conflicted feelings about awards show season after the devastating Los Angeles fires, she now understands their importance.
The 44-year-old actress, who is set to host the 2025 SAG Awards, explained her thought process in a recent interview.
“It felt very superfluous to have an awards show. I felt, ‘We should cancel all of the awards this year and donate all of the money!’” Kristen told People.
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However, The Good Place star saw both sides of the situation.
“I realized, ‘Wait a minute. If you cancel the awards shows, you are canceling, hundreds of hundreds if not thousands of jobs for people in Los Angeles who need them. Gig workers, musicians, hairstylists, makeup artists, drivers, caterers, tech workers — it’s actually imperative to the economy of rebuilding that we have these awards shows,” she said.
“Especially having it airing it on Netflix and making it seem global, it allows people to have a night of just fun, normal, goofy jokes and see all of the stars of television and film that they love,” she added.
When Kristen was asked to host this year’s SAG Awards, she originally turned down the offer due to her busy personal life. However, she revealed why she eventually changed her mind.
“I was coming off of 8 months of not working — well, you can say not working, but I’ve been a stay-at-home mom, which is a whole load [of] work in and of itself and more emotional work than anything,” she explained.
She continued: “But I hadn’t been acting. And I thought, ‘Wow do I want to get back into this? Do I want to take this on?’ But it felt like it’d oddly be creatively fun and fulfilling. And so far, it has been.”
The 31st Annual SAG Awards will air on Netflix on Sunday, February 23 at 8 p.m. EST.
If you didn’t see, Kristen and five of her co-stars will be returning to season 2 of the hit Netflix show, Nobody Wants This.