Taylor Momsen Says She Was “Made Enjoyable of Relentlessly” in Faculty for Her ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas’ Position

Taylor Momsen has opened up about her position in How the Grinch Stole Christmas, which noticed the Grinch get teased in class, and the way one thing comparable occurred in her personal life as a baby.

In the course of the newest episode of the Podcrushed podcast, the Gossip Woman actress, who performed Cindy Lou Who within the film starring Jim Carrey, informed hosts Penn Badgley, Nava Kavelin and Sophie Ansari, “The Grinch modified my life in a mess of how — one in every of them being I used to be made enjoyable of relentlessly.”

“Each time I’d begin a brand new college or go elsewhere, I don’t even suppose the children knew my title. I used to be simply Grinch Woman,” she added. “Not even the character title [Cindy Lou Who], simply Grinch Woman.”

Momsen admitted that whereas she “acquired used to it” over time, it nonetheless “was alienating.”

The musician was simply 7 years previous when she filmed the Dr. Seuss film, and he or she stated that shifting round to totally different colleges as a baby resulting from her profession didn’t assist with teasing from her classmates. However as soon as she acquired to center college, and her life turned extra stationary, Momsen stated she was capable of develop a buddy group.

“That was the primary 12 months … the place I used to be in class, and I had the chance to attempt to truly make buddies,” she stated. “I put a band collectively. It was my first band, my middle-school band, a storage band. We by no means might choose a reputation. However we’d jam after college, and that was all the time enjoyable. I used to be singing, taking part in guitar, writing.”

However just a few years later, she landed the position of Jenny Humphrey on Gossip Woman in 2007, which is the place she met Badgley, taking part in his youthful sister on the hit teen drama.

“In order quickly as I began to search out my little groove in class as a traditional child, Gossip Woman happened, and I acquired uprooted to New York and the band fell aside,” she stated. “We had been going to be large. It was an actual bummer. And I needed to type of restart all of it once more in New York, which didn’t take me that lengthy.”

As for her time in Whoville, Momsen beforehand reminisced on her expertise filming the traditional vacation film throughout an interview with the At this time present in 2020, to have fun the movie’s twentieth anniversary.

“I believe that folks love The Grinch simply just because the core of the story is so candy and it’s so heartwarming and it has such a very good message,” she stated on the time. “Apart from how wonderful Jim Carrey’s efficiency is and the theatrics that went into the shoot, simply the best way the movie seems to be and strikes and is edited is wonderful in its personal proper.”