‘It was insane,’ the actor said. Kat Dennings has revealed the cruel comments she faced about her appearance at the start of her acting career. The 2 Broke Girls star, 38, landed a role in an episode of Sex and The City when she was just 14 – despite being told in previous auditions she was “too fat” for television.
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Dennings began her on screen career - appearing in adverts - at the age of nine and received some “extremely negative feedback” from casting directors via her agent. Detailing the remarks, she explained: “I was 12. I’d go into an audition and I’d do it, and my manager would call me and I’d be like: "How’d it go?" And they’d be like: ‘Well, they thought you weren’t pretty enough and you’re fat.’.
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“The time that I was auditioning and starting to act, it was a very different environment than it is now,” Dennings reflected. “There was not a lot of inclusivity at all. It was very harsh. There was a lot of extremely negative feedback and people would not hold back,” the star said.
Dennings, who went on to front her own sitcom, 2 Broke Girls, alongside Beth Behrs from 2011 to 2017, said she managed to retain her “strong mindset” despite the negative comments. “For some reason, it didn’t break my spirit,” she said. “I was like: ‘I’ll show them.’ I guess props to my parents, because they were like: ‘They’re idiots. Don’t listen to them.’ And I was like: ‘They’re idiots, I’m not.’”.
