You understand Kat Dennings — however do you know that is not even her actual identify?
Throughout a current look on Not Gonna Lie With Kylie Kelce, Kat revealed that she truly determined to drop her given identify — Katherine Victoria Litwack — when she was simply 9 years previous.
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“My actual final identify is Litwack — that’s all it is advisable to hear,” she joked. “At 9, I used to be like, ‘This isn’t going to work for me. This isn’t going to work.’ She-slash-I used to be very forward of her time. It was a CEO state of affairs. I used to be like, ‘This may’t be displayed on a poster.’”
Kat then defined that she acquired the thought to alter her identify after visiting with a household buddy, kids’s fantasy writer Lloyd Alexander. “Randomly, he was my mom’s greatest buddy,” she stated. “So I went there each week till I used to be 15 years previous, and so they have been like my grandparents, he and his spouse. And his spouse’s identify was Janine Denni, she was French. And I assumed it might be a brilliant sick concept if I took her identify and made it totally different. Actually, that was the considering. That’s so far as it went. So Dennings is from her.”
As for the “Kat”? Effectively, she took inspiration from a stunning supply — particularly, Christina Ricci’s character from the 1995 movie Casper, who was Kat’s “favourite character on the time.”
“So I used to be like, ‘Okay, Kat Dennings. That is it, I can actually image it.’” she stated. “It’s insane.”
