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Kat Dennings was home-schooled. Did she learn anything? Who knows. What we do know is that she is very nice. She graduated high school when she was 14, and convinced her family to move from Pennsylvania to Los Angeles so she could pursue acting. She’s been acting her ass off pretty much ever since, and now she’s not only acting in movies, she’s writing movies. Thanks for nothing, College!

So, during the eight years most people are in high school and college, Ms. Dennings was steadily chomping away at Hollywood, and this spring the 24-year-old has reached the pinnacle of artistic and financial success for an actor—she’s in a comic-book movie. Thor is about the Marvel character Thor, who is in turn based on the Norse god Thor. The film features beautiful men acting like tough men and beautiful women acting like extremely beautiful women. Thor! Word to Walt Simonson.

What is your favorite thing about yourself?
Jesus, that’s a really hard question. I think I’m a loyal friend. That’s very important.

What does that mean? What do your friends get out of that?
I don’t know, it depends…friendships are so different, from person to person. I appreciate each of my friends as the person they are and try to respect them and love them in the way that they need. Be there for them.

What would you like to change about yourself?
That list keeps growing. [Laughs.] That’s a process. I’m still young and I’m hoping to learn as I grow.

Choose one.
I wish I was a less anxious driver. L.A.’s a stressful place to drive, and I tend to seize up when I drive. I get very nervous when someone goes in front of me. I’m working on that. I’m getting better at it.

I got deep into heavy metal because of driving, it calms me down.
Do you listen to Slayer?

Yes.
I love Slayer. I understand that, it’s very cathartic.

Were you ever a shoplifter?
No. God, no. In fact, I stole something when I was a little kid. I stole it from my friend Anna, from her sewing kit. It was a snowflake bead. I’ll never forget, because I love snowflakes, but I felt so bad. The next time I went over to her house, I snuck it back in.

Did she ever find out?
No. I guess she will now.

Did you take anything from the set of Thor?
No. They gave me stuff, but I never stole anything. [Laughs.] I have a problem; I don’t like to do things that are bad.

You’re better off. Follow the Golden Rule.
I’m a very do-unto-others type of person.

What did they give you from the set?
Oh, they gave me a book from the set and a poster, just little things.

Book and a poster?! What were you, an extra? What book did they give you?
I’m not sharing all the secrets. Maybe when you guys see Thor, you can try to pick it out of the movie.

They gotta give you some cooler stuff.
No, that is so cool. A book is the ultimate present for me.

Oh, then you hit the jackpot.
I did, oh my god. Huge jackpot.

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Kat is in the Vogue US April issue, and looking damn fine like always. Click the above image to be taken to the gallery with one other picture.

“[Actress Kat Dennings demonstrates] the hourglass architecture of fifties dressing is no less alluring today.” -Vogue

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Kat pops up around the 3-minute mark.

Kat is in ELLE’s November issue this year, and had a photoshoot with Calvin Klein’s main man Francisco Costa. To see the full scans, click on the image above. I typed up the article for your convenience and bolded the Kat parts here:

HARD ROMANCE
Calvin Klein collection designer Francisco Costa – and his killer dress – meet their match: the thinking guy’s bombshell, Kat Dennings. Anne Slowey interviews the king of “reductionism” and finds that, when it comes to keeping a brand on top, sometimes nice guys finish first.
Photographed by Daniel King

“I feel sexxxy!” trills Kat Dennings, tossing an exaggerated pout over her shoulder, channeling her best Madeline Kahn. It’s the kind of proclamation this 24-year-old indie darling would only make ironically; yet, prancing around in a pair of towering ’40s-style platforms on the set of her ELLE photoshoot, she looks all that and more. This is due, in part, to a shimmering silver Lurex dress from the fall/winter 2010 collection of her costar at this shoot, Francisco Costa, the creative director of Calvin Klein Collection women’s wear. The two just met, but before long they’re shaking their groove thangs and exchanging hugs and besos.

As Dennings slinks from pose to pose, her arms writhing in the air, as if risen from an oyster shell like a Botticelli disco ball, Costa joins in the fun with all the bossa nova bravado of a Brazilian nightclub dancer. Still, he saves his real excitement for the construction of the dress. “Look! It only has one seam!” he says.

Only someone with an in-depth knowledge of fashion physics could fully appreciate that single-seam feat. It’s almost as complex as the genetic coding that gave issue to the quirky and talented Dennings. For all her endless curls and ginormous bedroom eyes, the actress doesn’t have a Hollywood-standard look, and that suits Costa just fine–she’s just the kind of smart, sexy woman he’d love to see wearing his clothes on and off the red carpet.

Wisecracking roles in The House Bunny and The 40 Year Old Virgin have earned Dennings a following as Tinseltown’s reigning smart-aleck ingenue. As the girl who wins Michael Cera’s indie-loving heart in 2008′s Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, she put a sardonic, Generation-Y spin on the classic romantic-comedy heroine. (Next up, she joins Natalie Portman and Anthony Hopkins in the Kenneth Branagh-directed superhero fantasy Thor, out next year.) With not a hint of Botox, Restylane, or saline in sight (okay, she’s only 24, but actresses start young these days), her 5’4″ frame jiggles, crinkles, and smushes in all the right places. “I love her,” Costa says later, pouring over outtakes from the shoot. “She’s so real, so nice. Beautiful.”

Costa certainly knows a thing or two about keeping it real. He’s won over even the most die-hard fashion critics with his sweet-natured charm and somewhat softened take on his company’s hard-edged heritage. After a slightly shaky start when Calvin Klein and business partner Barry Schwartz retired from the company in 2003, selling it to manufacturing giant Phillips-Van Heusen and anointing Costa as Klein’s successor, Costa’s stewardship of this über-cool intellectual brand has turned its aesthetic ever so slightly on its modernist head.

The billowing color-block silk dresses of spring/summer 2006, for which he won the CFDA’s women’s-wear designer of the year award; the floaty-yet-structured suits of fall/winter 2007; the white columns and lean, bias-cut silhouettes of spring/summer 2008 (for which he won his second CFDA award); the serene, geometric, cool-tone neutrals of spring/summer 2009; and this fall’s sculptural tailoring–collections like these, which marry hard and soft, have made Costa the smart dresser’s go-to designer.

For resort, he returned to the company’s separates roots, working handmade stitching into all the looks to create flat, foldable shapes that stand away from yet still delineate the contours of a woman’s body. Veering subtly from the essential Calvin mantra, he has gone so far as to make the clothes softer, even–gasp–in some small ways romantic. So, while resort’s dresses have a traditional Calvin length (below the knee) and techno fabric (rubberized cupro), Costa adds a devore velvet in beachy shades of seafoam green and yellow to give the silhouette a decidedly feminine elegance. “I’m not a minimalist, I’m a reductionist,” says the 46-year-old. “Since ’90s minimalism ended, there has been an evolution at Calvin. For me, that means there’s a lot of heard behind what I do.”

Costa, who designed his first suit at the age of nine–a burgundy safari number with patch pockets, for a trip he was taking to his uncle’s cattle ranch–never had designs on becoming a fashion celebrity. He grew up one of five children in Guarani, Brazil, and spent his after-school hours working in his mother’s childrenswear factory. “There wasn’t a lot of privacy,” he says. “If you went off to your room to read a book, everyone thought there was something wrong with you.” When his mother died in 1991, he came to New York to attend FIT. In short order, he learned English and got a job working for Bill Blass Dresses and, later, Oscar de la Renta. “I grew up in a very neutral-tone world,” Costa says of his family’s home and its surrounding landscape. “Oscar taught me how to play with color.” After working with de la Renta for five years, he was tapped by Tom Ford, becoming one of the lead designers on Gucci’s seminal spring 1999 Cher collection, with its $2,000 embroidered jeans and turquoise-embellished slingbacks. Costa had been design director at Calvin Klein Collection for less than a year when he fast-forwarded to the top spot.

Recently, Costa has tweaked his fashion shows’ model lineup to better reflect what he sees as the company’s clientele, casting such nonteenagers as Kirsty Hume, Kristen McMenamy, and Stella Tennant. Of the much-discussed Lara Stone, the face of the company’s Calvin Klein Collection, ck Calvin Klein, and Calvin Klein jeans campaigns, he says: “Lara embodies sexy, yes. But she also has a full life. And she has a big, womanly figure, but she’s not dowdy.” He’s brought in women in diverse shapes, ethnicities, and personalities–Eva Mendes, Kate Bosworth, Kerry Washington, Diane Kruger, Zoe Saldana, Natalia Vodianova–as “friends” of the brand. While on one hand, Costa appreciates the androgyny of a McMenamy or Tennant, he loves a woman with curves– hello, Ms. Dennings (or fellow fans Liv Tyler, Elle Macpherson, and Michelle Obama). “In my mind, being modern means embracing more reaces, ways of being, and yes, body types,” he says.

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It’s a hot-as-hades late spring Kat Dennings lounges in a Toluca Lake café. Having seen the actress in The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, she’s easy to spot. She is striking—Leonardo DiCaprio’s eloquent Kings of New York character Amsterdam Villon would have referred to her as a “prim lookin’ stargazer”—doe-eyed, fair-skinned, full-lipped, and somehow sage-like despite her youth. Dennings greets with a firm shake, even though she’s just observed the reciprocating hand in question perform a perspiration-reducing brow wipe. She has either a bohemian respect for the putridity of the human body or is painfully polite. Not necessarily words you would use to describe the usually sarcastic and rye characters that she is known to portray. Rather, she’s genuinely welcoming, the results of which spill into the kind of girlish, sissified chatter that inspired The Baby-Sitters Club with weekly story lines.

Having just wrapped her latest film, Thor, Dennings admits that she is exhausted, but eagerly describes the experience as if she would be willing to do it all again tomorrow. “I was awestruck,” she gushes. “It’s the most fun I’ve ever had.” The film, based on the popular Marvel comic, has already attracted media buzz and is expected to draw a massive following, torturously virginal 15-year-old boys notwithstanding. Thor’s cast also includes the lauded and appropriately Norse Stellan Skarsgård, whom Dennings and Natalie Portman, also a fellow castmate, prompted to teach swear words in Swedish—naturally. Dennings recalls a particularly juicy expletive and with very little prodding she invokes skit bollar (“shit balls” to those south of the Artic Circle).

There is more oohing and ahhing over the cast, working with legendary director Kenneth Branaugh, and more about the swarthy Skarsgård, but Dennings was particularly thrilled to be able to include her brother Geoffrey, with whom she is very close, in her work trip. “It was cool to bring him to set,” she says. “Usually he’s like, ‘Oh, a sex scene with Josh Lucas… I think I’ll stay home.’” She’s referring to another new film called Daydream Nation in which she plays an acerbic teenage girl who simultaneously begins an affair with her teacher (played by Lucas) and a fellow classmate. The town short circuits and calamity ensues.

One can’t really blame her brother for his hesitation, considering her early role in Sex and the City, in which she plays a 13-year-old nymphette. Along with bit roles in CSI, ER, and The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Dennings’ voluptuous body has lent itself to some pretty salacious characters and she doesn’t apologize for it. Her characters tend to be confident in their skin, smart, teenaged, and very, very spirited… you do the math.

Desiring a break from the usual, albeit very cool and sexy Parker Posey-esque, roles, Dennings made the film Defendor with Woody Harrelson, which she describes as her most challenging part to date. “Sometimes you read a script and you think, ‘I can’t do this,’ and that was one of them,” she says. Dennings herself is a self-described homebody: she has never smoked and barely drinks. Yet, in the film, she plays a crack-smoking 15-year-old runaway hooker named Kat Debrokowitz—the irony of the shared name is not lost on her. Debrokowitz is dark, emotional, and also 20 pounds lighter than Dennings. “I decided to lose the weight on my own,” she explains. “No one asked me to. I did research and it seemed like part of the character.” Still, don’t expect to see Dennings in size 0 jeans—when it comes to body politics and show business, she has very firm ideas and expectations. Personally, she feels comfortable with her hour glass physique, but she also knows that acting is her job and as such may require her to be physically malleable for certain roles. “There is a point when you’re not getting the roles you want,” she lets on. “I realized this is part of my work.”

True to character, she avoids straying into the too serious and makes a joke, “I want an excuse to go nuts and only eat vitamins!” Luckily, she wasn’t saddled with a body-dysmorphia-projecting “show mom” growing up. On the contrary, Dennings was raised in a remote part of Pennsylvania, and home-schooled, meaning her sizeable family of seven has long been very close-knit. In fact, when Dennings moved to Los Angeles, her family came along to support her. She’s even begun writing scripts with Geoffrey. “Where I’m lame, he’s awesome,” she says with a grin, “and where he’s lame, I’m awesome.” They sold their first script and were promptly put onto the Black List 2008, a misleadingly ominous title that means they are up-and-comers to watch.

When the youngest member of the Dennings clan is not in the midst of a salty scene, or writing one, she can just as often be found nose-deep in a novel. “When I’m not working, I’m reading or sleeping,” she says. This sets her off and the remainder of the interview is spent discussing favorite authors and books, Dennings’ being Haruki Murakami and The Phantom Tollbooth. Conversation organically meanders onto the topic of Edgar Allan Poe, which leads to Christopher Walken’s YouTube-able reading of Poe’s The Raven. If you are at all familiar with Dennings’ prolific video blogging, then you’ll know she has quite the crush on Mr. Walken—dreamy and creepy all at once. Who could resist?

So, what’s up next for the budding ingénue? Dennings says she would love to be offered another action role or even a period piece. When asked about the quality of her English accent, she quips in a voice intentionally reminiscent of something between The Count and Mrs. Doubtfire, “Terrible. I sound like James Mason.” So a casting in the remake of The Age of Innocence as stuffy old Countess Olenska might be a long way off, but we can imagine Dennings making ripples as Hollywood royalty in no time at all.

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Kat’s featured in Issue 110 of Flaunt Magazine, which is out this month. These scans are sort of tiny, but we’re working on finding an actual physical copy to scan for you guys. In the meantime, Warwick Saint did the photography, and you can see his work here.

In my humble opinion, Kat looks absolutely stunning in everything we’ve seen so far from the W Magazine shoot. Hopefully the actual magazine has more pictures in it, but no one I know has been able to get hold of it as of yet. Click the above image to see more pictures.

“My first audition was for a commercial for the lottery. I didn’t get it, so I hate the lottery.” Since that rejection, Dennings, 24, has become an indie favorite—the smart, seductive, prickly downtown darling in such movies as Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist and Charlie Bartlett. Her curves and her attitude—bemused but sweet, self-aware but curious—set her apart from other young actresses. As a kid growing up near Philadelphia, “I wanted to be Christopher Walken,” Dennings says. “I saw a film version of Puss in Boots, and he was Puss. He had a mouse tail hanging out of his mouth, and he said ‘Growl’ as only Chris Walken can. That performance made me want to be an actor.”

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Kat is on the cover of the September issue of W Magazine, as part of their “Hollywood’s New It Girls” feature. The rest of the girls are Jessica Chastain (also gracing the cover), Yaya DaCosta, Greta Gerwig, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Jennifer Lawrence, Emma Roberts and Zoë Kravitz. Can’t wait to see the rest of the pictures, and the article. :)

The August 2009 issue of Vanity Fair has hit the stands, and we’ve scanned in the editorial Ain’t We Got Style, featuring our beloved Kat, along with a couple other familiar faces.

Kat was featured in the British Arena Magazine in their March issue of this year, just before the magazine went out of business. Good job including Kat in one of their last issues. ;) She looks really good in them, in any case.

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