Rassegna stampa di Kat Dennings

Non solo si è dimostrata un'abile partner del divertente Steve Carrell in 40 anni vergine, ma la sua interpretazione, insieme a quella di Catherine Keener, si è rivelata fondamentale per il film. Le sue interpretazioni dolci e semplici sono sottolineate da una personalità mite ma determinata. Kat ha inoltre recitato al fianco di Hilary Duff in Nata per vincere e interpreta il personaggio di Zoe Butler inE.R..

Dashingly undead young men are popping their coffins in Alan Ball's new HBO series “True Blood” and Catherine Hardwicke's November movie, “Twilight.” But the most appealing vampire of the new season may well be the girl with the blood-smeared chin in Tomas Alfredson's award-winning film “Let the Right One In” (Oct. 24). As played by a 12-year-old tyro named Lina Leandersson, she looks about as predatory as a kid who got into the jam jar again.

Set in a wintry Stockholm suburb where even the drunks look slightly marooned, “Let the Right One In” revolves around the budding attraction between a slender boy named Oskar, who is savagely bullied at school, and Ms. Leandersson's Eli, his new neighbor in the apartment next door. Eli (pronounced Ellie) has some decidedly supernatural characteristics: She can scoot up the side of a multistory building in no time and appear and disappear with the suddenness of teleportation. She doesn't feel the cold, so when she first turns up outdoors as Oskar works his Rubik's Cube (she wants to work it too), she's coatless and barefoot.
Mr. Alfredson found Ms. Leandersson after a series of open auditions, but because her voice was still girlishly high, he used another young Swedish actress with a lower register to dub her lines. This does nothing to detract from Ms. Leandersson's performance because her dialogue is sparse and her character is largely defined by her physicality. She evokes Eli's radical apartness with an air of watchful caution and a contained stillness of body that not only belies her childish appearance but makes it all the more startling when we see her in a single long shot leaping on a victim's shoulders. Da The New York Times, 7 Settembre 2008

I’m not sure when I first met Kat Dennings. She played my daughter in “The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” and one day, we were having a read-through of the script and I looked over and there was this lovely girl. I thought, Who is this girl? She was kind of lit up from within. When someone is that beautiful, it’s great when they’re funny too, and from the beginning, Kat had her own rhythm: a way of being funny and emotional at the same time.

A lot of “The 40-Year-Old Virgin” was shot like a controlled improvisation. Anything and everything was welcome, and the director, Judd Apatow, never yelled “cut.” It took me a while to get used to that style of working, but Kat was a natural. In one scene her character, who is anxious to give up her virginity, is battling with me. As her mom, I don’t want her to grow up too fast. Kat’s character is in the bathroom, crying, and I’m outside the door with Steve Carell, who played my boyfriend. Kat was just screaming at me — cursing and yelling and calling me all kinds of names that were not in the script. I was thrown and I turned to Steve and I said, “I don’t know what she’s talking about.” Even though it was improvised, Judd kept that line in the movie — I clearly sounded like a frustrated mom and it was all due to Kat’s rant.
During the shoot, I looked out for Kat. I think we all did. I was protective of her and I stayed in touch with her after the movie was finished. It’s tough on young girls in Hollywood — it’s easy to fall into the tabloid culture. But that’s not what she’s made of. Kat has beauty and youth and talent, but there’s something else that sets her apart: she’s comfortable being different.
Catherine Keener has received two Academy Award nominations for best supporting actress, for “Being John Malkovich” in 2000 and “Capote” in 2006.
Da The New York Times Magazine, 5 Febbraio 2009

È una delle stelle in ascesa di Hollywood. Ha recitato assieme a Steve Carell e Catherine Keener nel grande successo della Universal 40 anni vergine (The 40 Year Old Virgin), mentre a inizio del 2008 ha affiancato Robert Downey, Jr. e Anton Yelchin in Charlie Bartlett.
La Dennings ha recentemente partecipato al titolo della Columbia Pictures / Happy Madison La coniglietta di casa (The House Bunny) assieme ad Anna Faris, Katharine McPhee e Rumer Willis, nel ruolo di una studentessa femminista che entra in contrasto con Shelley (Faris), un’ex coniglietta di Playboy, quando quest’ultima diventa un punto di riferimento per lei e le sue sfortunate sorelle della confraternita, che vogliono aumentare la loro popolarità nel campus.

La Dennings sta attualmente girando Shorts, scritto e diretto da Robert Rodriguez, assieme ai colleghi Leslie Mann e William H. Macy. Il film narra la storia di un gruppo di giovani sfortunati che si ritrovano a vivere un’avventura inattesa quando scoprono una misteriosa scatola nel loro quartiere.
Nella sua filmografia, figurano anche titoli come Nata per vincere (Raise Your Voice), Down in the Valley assieme ad Edward Norton, London con Jessica Biel e Big Momma’s House 2. E’ anche apparsa in Wonderlust della IFC, mentre è stata scelta per partecipare al prestigioso laboratorio di cinema del Sundance nel 2005, dove ha lavorato con Robert Redford al film Dreamland di Dante Harper.
In televisione, è comparsa in alcune delle serie più acclamate in circolazione, tra cui E.R. - medici in prima linea (ER), una partecipazione all’importante episodio crossover tra i telefilm CSI: Miami/CSI: NY e un ruolo controverso in Senza traccia (Without a Trace). Ha anche recitato con Bob Saget nel telefilm della WB Raising Dad. Questa ventunenne si è fatta notare per la sua partecipazione nei panni di Jenny Brier, un’adolescente che assume Samantha per fare promozione al suo Bat Mitzvah, in Sex and the City della HBO.
La Dennings vive attualmente a Los Angeles e ama scrivere e realizzare film.