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In accordance with the January 30 release of Nick and Norah in the UK, Times Online posted an interview with Kat, in which she reveals she prefers pyjamas, would play a cheerleader if the right script came along, and that she’s not dating Matthew Gray Gubler, or anyone, at the moment. Since some people were so interested. ;)
Kat Dennings offers directors a touch of va-va-voom The nocturnal comedy Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist suits its pyjama-clad rising star, she tells Kevin Maher
She is not like other girls. “I’m not this super-pretty popular person,” Kat Dennings says, 22-year-old head slung low, silky brown tresses hiding one entire side of her face in a Veronica Lake wave. “Sure, I have my moments,” says the star of the nocturnal comedy Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist, gazing curiously down at herself, and at the shimmering black sleeveless mini-dress she’s chosen for today’s movie promotion — though she wears it, slouched forward here in a Toronto hotel room, with the sweetly sullen mien of a teenage tomboy who’s been forced to dress up for daddy. “But if you want to know the truth, I’d rather be at home in my pyjamas.”
Pyjamas, it soon transpires, play a big part in the life of Dennings. They are her outfit of choice while at home in LA, on breaks between filming the forthcoming indie drama Arlen Faber and the new Robert Rodriguez action comedy Shorts. They feature heavily in her regular YouTube video blogs (the true mark of a digital-age star), during which she prances around her bedroom in, alternately, the orange check, grey striped and pink flowery variety. She wore them for almost the entire production of Nick & Norah, changing into her screen denims only when the movie’s gruelling month-long night shoot demanded it.
“We’d arrive on set when most people were going home from work,” she says, describing the late night set-up in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, in November 2007. “And then we’d work all night. Most days I didn’t bother with real clothes. Just my hunting cap, boots and pyjamas.”
The movie, a leisurely hipster rom-com from the school of Juno, follows the eponymous protagonists, played by Dennings and Michael Cera (also from Juno), as they ping about the streets of New York, hoping to find the secret midnight venue for an achingly enigmatic punk band called Fluffy. In reality, of course, these two star-crossed music lovers are trying to find each other.
The narrative may be light, the plot complexities rare, but the casting of Dennings is the movie’s genuine coup. With a sleepy deep voice, half-closed eyes and full-bodied screen presence (Yes, she has real hips! And thighs! And real flesh on her body!) she is a fabulous antidote to the legions of squeaky blonde twiglets that normally constitute the rising-starlet brigade.
“I’m not your typical heroine,” she says, before adding drolly, with a low Lauren Bacall smirk, “But I wouldn’t rule out playing a cheerleader, if the right script came along.”
Typically, Dennings has become the first choice for casting directors in search of bookish, slightly introspective girls with a touch of va-va-voom. She played the wise-beyond-her-years daughter of Catherine Keener in The 40-Year-Old Virgin, and of Robert Downey Jr in last year’s indie comedy Charlie Bartlett (“Robert is just sooo amazing. He’s really smart. We have a lot in common!”). And yet there seems to be direct and conspicuous connections between her on and off-screen personae.
From Philadelphia, and the youngest of five children, she graduated from highschool precociously, at 14, having never once set foot inside the building. Instead, she was home-schooled by her biochemist father and speech therapist mother (“They were unhappy with school system at the time”). Consequently, she remains a heady creation to this day, is close friends with the 28-year-old LA literary tyro Andrea Seigel (To Feel Stuff), and has written her own screenplay — an unnamed and top-secret project currently in pre-production. A voracious reader, she is prone, during the course of our conversation, to extolling the virtues of Japanese writer Haruki Murakami (“He’s like, the Nabokov of Japan!”).
Even at 14 years old, however, and free from the obligations of education to pursue a career in acting, she says that she could see straight through the entertainment industry. Her first gig was a commercial for the now defunct Orleans low fat crisps, or “potato chips”. “They were like poison, and we weren’t even allowed eat them for the commercial,” she says. “They’d open the bag, and then dump them and replace them with other chips. It showed me, right then, how this whole industry is full of crap.”
She nonetheless became a big draw and, playing up or down the soulful, sullen routine (big eyes, lots of mascara, pale skin, and greatest full-lipped pout since Angelina Jolie), graduated from bit-parts in CSI, Sex and the City and ER to supporting roles in Down in the Valley and The 40-Year-Old Virgin.
Her big scene in that last movie, bursting in on mom Keener and partner Steve Carell in bed is already a classic clip (“I can’t believe it!” screams her character Marla, cornering a semi-clad Keener, “You’re allowed to have sex and I’m not! That is soooo unfair!”).
Today, as the star of Nick & Norah, and four forthcoming movies of impeccable pedigree (including the Don DeLillo adaptation End Zone) Dennings is struggling with the inevitable arrival of the high life. Though she was previously romantically linked to fellow Hollywood actors Ira David Wood (Down in the Valley) and Matthew Gray Gubler (The Life Aquatic), she announces firmly: “I don’t have a boyfriend. I have friends, girl friends, great friends. We just hang out in other’s places and have one-on-one bonding time.”
And as for the impending arrival of interstellar status? “If it were to happen, I don’t think anything would really change about me,” she says, before adding, quick as a flash, and with a wry nod to her hermetic pyjama-clad lifestyle, “I’d just, finally, put on some normal clothes and go outside.”
So after congratulating myself on a relatively error-free move, I made a stupid mysql mistake and we lost all of our new posts + the new stuff in the gallery. Never fear! We reuploaded it all, and this will serve as a huge post to relist everything new and the bits and pieces of news about Kat we have. Sorry if anyone was confused by the reversion!
First: Arlen Faber has been screened on Sundance quite a few times in the last week, and while it hasn’t met with rave reviews, everyone seems to agree that Kat was awesome in it. Our deleted post had a longer paragraph, but that’s the gist. Congrats, Kat! EDIT: Yuzu tells me the missing part is that Elle Driver picked up the international distributing rights.
Next: Hollywood Life scans, and a little something Rach found in Blender in the CD review section:
Third: Kat attended an event on the 12th! We’re late updating because of moving the site etc. but Yuzu got hold of some images:
What we’ve all been waiting for: NICK AND NORAH’S INFINITE PLAYLIST screencaps, 1443, medium quality, along with 2 The House Bunny stills and THB behind the scenes caps:
64 new images from the Williams + Hirakawa shoot (watermarked, but still oh so pretty):
Last but not least: Kat was in the Presidential Pledge video that Demi Moore directed and uploaded to Myspace Celebrity the day before Barack Obama’s inaguration! She’s at about 1:48 and there are caps in the gallery.
John Hindman, the director of Arlen Faber, gave an interview concerning his film and what it was like to work with the cast (including Kat!). There is also a clip from the film, which while it doesn’t have Kat, is still pretty awesome.
Kat was featured in the Fall 2008 issue of Nylon Guys. You can now view the full article in the gallery. I’m in love with the shot of her from it, too.
She also posted today promising a new blog layout. While I’m fond of the current one, I’m curious to see what she’ll do with it next. Keep your eyes peeled, guys.
Anyway, I acquired The House Bunny on DVD over the weekend, so once the holidays roll to a halt I’ll get started on bringing you guys HQ screen captures!
Hope all of you have wonderful holidays and an awesome New Year. ♥
The New Ingenue: Tired of guest stints on the small screen, actress Kat Dennings risks one of her nine lives while on the prowl for Hollywood notoriety.
By Tony Horkins
December 07, 2008
According to her acting coach, Kat Dennings should just “forget about the whole acting thing.” According to her mother, going into the profession was “a terrible idea.” According to casting agents, “her teeth are too weird, she’s funny looking, not pretty enough and too fat.” Luckily, Michael Cera’s love interest in Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, who also stole scenes in The House Bunny and The 40-Year-Old Virgin, is made of stern stuff. “Yeah, I’m not easily swayed,” says the 22-year-old with a lazy drawl. “I’m a pretty strong-willed person and the criticism doesn’t really bother me.” Instead, Dennings stayed focused, abandoned acting classes altogether and served her apprenticeship on small-screen staples like ER, CSI (both Crime Scene Investigation and NY) and Sex and the City before graduating to Hollywood.
But don’t expect to see her pictured, crotch on display, outside of an L.A. nightclub anytime soon. “Ugh, you can’t even talk in those places,” says Dennings, who stars in four films this year, including the Robert Rodriguez project Shorts, and The Dream of the Romans opposite Jeff Daniels. “Plus, I don’t drink and I don’t smoke and I don’t like being around people who do. Oh no, I sound really boring!” We’ll beg to differ.
The Satellite Award nominations are in and Meryl Streep is leading the pack. Streep was nominated for her roles in both Doubt and Mama Mia!. Competing with Streep in the category of Actress in a Drama is heavyweight Angelina Jolie for Changeling and unexpectedly Melissa Leo for Frozen River. The International Press Academy must have had a soft spot for Frozen River because it was nominated for Best Motion Picture in the drama category as well.
Another name you’re going to hear a number of times at this show is Slumdog Millionaire. This independent film nabbed five nominations including Best Motion Picture in the drama category, Best Director for the work of Danny Boyle, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original Score, Best Original Song for “Jaiho” by A.R. Rahman and Gulzar, Best Film Editing and was named one of the top ten films of the year.
In the comedy category, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist is a main contender. Kat Dennings was nominated for Best Actress In a Comedy or Musical and Michael Cera for Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical. The film is also up for Best Motion picture in the comedy and musical category.
The big night will take place on December 14th at Century City’s InterContinental Hotel in Los Angeles. My fingers will be kept crossed for Best Motion Picture in the animated or mixed media category nominee WALL-E.
As strong as the dramatic and supporting races are, this category is weak, which means the HFPA will likely round out two or three strong nominations with others from movies that would not normally be considered awards-worthy.
On the comedy/musical side, awards magnet Streep is back in contention with Universal’s big-screen adaptation of the ABBA-loving stage hit “Mamma Mia.”
Two other Oscar winners are in contention in this category — McDormand, who plays a gym worker hungry for plastic surgery in Focus Features’ “Burn After Reading,” and Emma Thompson, as a London airport employee who finds unlikely romance with an American jingle writer (Dustin Hoffman) in Overture Films’ “Last Chance Harvey.”
Scanning the year for standout female performances in comedies, it’s hard to get past the film adaptation of the HBO series “Sex and the City” (New Line), which boasts juicy turns from its core quartet — Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon and Sarah Jessica Parker. As leader of the pack Carrie Bradshaw, Parker must be seen as the favorite.
There might also be room in the category for fresh faces Elizabeth Banks, who plays a regular gal who makes an adult film in the Weinstein Co.’s “Zack and Miri Make a Porno,” and Kat Dennings, who plays Norah in Sony’s “Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist.”
Hot New Winona Ryders
Before Johnny Depp famously had a tattoo artist delete the “na” from his biceps, he had it right: “Winona Forever.” Everywhere we look these days, there’s another young brunette playing an ultrasarcastic, liberal-minded, sensitive slacker — the type of grunge Hepburn that Winona Ryder once made famous. Just watch Olivia Thirlby in The Wackness, Emma Stone in The Rocker, Hannah Bailey in American Teen, Ellen Page in Juno, Kat Dennings in Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist — if you squint through Nick and Norah, you might mistake Dennings for Ryder herself. Both are five-foot-four-inch Jewish girls whose curvy top halves upend their bottom halves, and both, curiously, were home-schooled. Why the Winona-vitalization? Maybe it’s because America is starting to resemble the place it was when Winona schlepped a greasy Dave Pirner to the Oscars: The economy blows, grads can’t find jobs, even flannel is back. Meanwhile Ryder, after a brief detour through shoplifting ignominy, is sticking to the future. She’ll be in J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek prequel, playing Spock’s mom. Shit, we’re old.
We just got a little heads up in our inbox that Kat made it to the Teen Vogue’s October list of the Ten Best Dressed! She’s made number 10 with her floral Dolce and Gabbana dress on the October 2nd Nick and Norah premiere, and is on the list with actresses like Camilla Belle, Ashley Tisdale, Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez and Dakota Fanning, among others. It seems to have been a great month for Disney actresses, but then again with the premiere of HSM3, who’s surprised?
