Cat Dennings opened up on how her stage name was created.
The 2 broken girls Alum revealed that she decided that a name change was needed when she was only nine years old during an appearance on Kylie Kelce’s Don’t go lie Podcast this week.
“My real family name is Litwack – that’s all you have to hear,” she told Kelce. “At 9, I was like,” It’s not going to work for me. It’s not going to work. ”
“She-Lash-I was a lot ahead of her time,” she added, joking about the decision to go with a different name.
Dennings described the name change as a ‘CEO situation’, where she feels that her real name cannot be seen on a ‘poster’.
The decision to choose “cat” was inspired by Christina Ricci’s character with the same name in the film CoffinWhat Dennings said was her ‘favorite character at the time’.
Her new family name finally comes from the wife of her mother’s friend, who was Janine Denni.
“I thought it would be a super sick idea if I mentioned her name and made it different,” she said. “It was literally thinking. This is as far as it has gone. So dins are of her. “
“So I was like” Okay, Cat Dennings. That’s it, I can really imagine it, ” she added.
Despite changing her name, Dennings previously revealed the cruel remarks she revealed at the beginning of her playing career, also at nine years old, about her appearance.
Talk to People Back in January, she remembers that she received an “extremely negative feedback” from the molding directors via her agent, including that she told her she was “too fat”.
“It was quite crazy to think about it. I’m like, ‘How can anyone say that about a little kid? It’s insane, ”she said. “I was 12. I would go in an audition and I would do it, and my manager would call me and I would be: ‘How are you? “And they would like,” Well, they thought you were not pretty enough and you’re fat. ” ‘
“The time I had auditions and started acting was a very different environment than it is now,” Dennings reflected.
“There wasn’t much inclusivity at all. It was very hard. There was much extremely negative feedback and people would not hold back, ”the actor said.
Dennings, which is further her own sitting, 2 broken girlsTogether with Beth Behrs from 2011 to 2017, she said she managed to maintain 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 think props for my parents because they were like, ‘They are idiots. Don’t listen to them. “And I was like,” They’re idiots, I’m not. ” ‘
The 38-year-old actor revealed that she thinks that the entertainment industry today is “much softer” and “friendlier” than the “completely insane” showbiz landscape she faced as a child.
“There is body positions, there is inclusivity, there is a representation, and there was none of this. It was really coarse, ”she said.
