Girl who performed Cindy Lou in The Grinch explains detrimental influence it had on her

The girl who performed Cindy Lou Who in How The Grinch Stole Christmas has opened up about what it was like on set of the enduring Christmas flick and the struggles she confronted following its launch in 2000.

Taylor Momsen was simply seven when she portrayed the harmless younger character within the Christmas basic, starring alongside Jim Carrey in his iconic efficiency because the green-skinned Grinch in Who-ville.

Though most of us most likely nonetheless have the movie on our December watch lists, particularly as Carrey’s character turns into increasingly more relatable as we become old, Momsen has spoken actually about a few of the struggles she confronted as a younger woman within the wake of her appearing debut.

Momsen, now 32, went on to seem in Gossip Lady and Spy Children 2, however referred to as it quits in 2012 and pursued music as an alternative, linking up with The Fairly Reckless, whereas she’s additionally toured with AC/DC.

Nonetheless, she’s admitted that she’s going to all the time be Cindy Lou deep down, and opened up in regards to the chaos of her childhood whereas talking on the Name Her Daddy podcast at present (5 November).

She said: “Grinch to me was all the time nice, I haven’t got any dangerous recollections with Grinch . Every thing about it was superior. It was tremendous enjoyable, I used to be tremendous younger.

“It was such an unbelievable venture to be part of that was so higher echelon at such a younger age, to see actors of that calibre. After which it was additionally my first expertise in a recording studio.

“When the film got here out and I used to be at school, you are teased relentlessly for it. You are Grinch woman. I moved round lots. All of that stuff was onerous for me as a child.

“However once I acquired older and searching again on it, I am going, ‘No, all of these issues that occurred and all of these experiences of constructing this movie was fantastic.’

“And so why am I shunning this? I’m Cindy Lou Who. I’m that woman. I am nonetheless that woman.”

It is a disgrace that Momsen suffered by the hands of bullies, which possible simply stemmed from jealousy as a result of immense reputation of the Christmas hit.

Momsen wasn’t the primary and positively will not be the final to face strife as a younger title within the trade, with different notable examples comparable to Macaulay Culkin and Dakota Fanning each talking about their respective struggles.