You recognize Kat Dennings — however do you know that is not even her actual identify?
Throughout a latest 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that she truly determined to drop her given identify — Katherine Victoria Litwack — when she was simply 9 years outdated.
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“My actual final identify is Litwack — that’s all you must 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 received the concept to vary her identify after visiting with a household good friend, youngsters’s fantasy writer Lloyd Alexander. “Randomly, he was my mom’s greatest good friend,” she stated. “So I went there each week till I used to be 15 years outdated, they usually had been like my grandparents, he and his spouse. And his spouse’s identify was Janine Denni, she was French. And I believed it could be a brilliant sick concept if I took her identify and made it totally different. Actually, that was the pondering. That’s so far as it went. So Dennings is from her.”
As for the “Kat”? Properly, 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.”
