Some time ago, Taylor Momsen had a very unpleasant time at school, due to The Grinch. In that endearing film from the year 2000, the now singer and model played the noble Cindy Lou, a six-year-old girl who, of all the inhabitants of the fictional Whoville, is the only one who, instead of fearing the lonely Grinch, sees kindness. in her tiny heart. Even so, despite being the heroine of one of the most beloved Christmas films of the 21st century, Momsen could not escape the ridicule of some of her classmates.
This week, speaking with Penn Badgley—her co-star on the series gossip girl— in the podcast podcrushed, the thirty-something celebrity revealed that children her age used to call her ‘Grinch Girl’ slyly. It was a nickname she grew accustomed to, she said, but she never failed to find it “alienating” that they reduced her whole person to a nickname.
“The Grinch it changed my life in so many ways. One of them was that they made fun of me incessantly,” Momsen said (via Variety). “I suspect that the other children didn’t even know my name every time I entered a new school or went somewhere else. It was just the ‘Grinch Girl’. Not even [me llamaban por] the name of my character, just ‘Grinch Girl’”.
Later, when the Missouri native joined the cast of gossip girlSomehow, she still felt stigmatized by that family film by director Ron Howard. While she was a teenager whose fame was still largely due to Cindy Lou, almost all of her co-stars already flaunted the maturity that comes from being in her 20s. Therefore, Momsen harbored the feeling of being out of place.
“I didn’t fit in with you guys,” he told Badgley. “I was the new girl. I was the ‘Grinch Girl’. I always felt like I was in a strange and isolated world, created in part by me, probably.”
Now, the changes in the life of Taylor Momsen as a result of The Grinch They were also beneficial. She, who years ago aspired to be Hannah Montana instead of Miley Cyrus, saw her musical passion born when she sang and recorded one of the melodies from that Christmas movie. That experience of hers made her think: “I want to make music for the rest of my life”.
“What I remember the most and what resonates with me to this day was the first time I walked into a recording studio and worked with the incredible [compositor de bandas sonoras] James Horner”, declared in 2020 (via People). “I’ll never forget walking into a beautiful studio, with an immaculate console in front of me, putting on my headphones, and singing into a microphone for the first time.”Where Are You Christmas‘».
The Grinchstarring Jim Carrey, is currently available on Netflix.
Antonio G. Spindola I have very bad memory. Out of solidarity with my memories, I choose to lose myself too. Preferably in a movie theater.