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You recognize Kat Dennings from loads of issues. It is attainable you are even watching her on the brand new ABC present Shifting Gears.
After all, Hollywood has been fairly merciless to little one actors throughout its existence — and in a brand new interview with Individuals, Kat bought actual about how she was body-shamed at a younger age by a casting director.
“The time that I used to be auditioning and beginning to act, it was a really totally different setting than it’s now,” she mentioned. “There was not plenty of inclusivity in any respect. It was very harsh. There was plenty of extraordinarily unfavorable suggestions and folks wouldn’t maintain again.”
Kat went on to specify how casting administrators specifically may very well be “very merciless” when speaking to kids: “It was fairly loopy fascinated with it. I am like, ‘How can anybody say that about just a little child? That is insane.'”
“For instance, I used to be 12. I would go into an audition and I would do it, and my supervisor would name me and I would be like, ‘How’d it go?’ And so they’d be like, ‘Properly, they thought you were not fairly sufficient and also you’re fats.'”
Kat went on to say that such feedback in the end did not “break my spirit.” “Props to my dad and mom, as a result of they have been like, ‘They’re idiots. Do not take heed to them.’ And I used to be like, ‘They’re idiots, I am not.'”
Kat additionally claimed that in the present day’s leisure trade is “a lot softer [and] kinder” than the “utterly insane” setting she confronted as a toddler actor.
“There’s physique positivity, there’s inclusivity, there’s illustration, and there was none of that earlier than. It was actually gross.”