Kat Dennings is fondly remembering the late Bob Saget, who portrayed her TV dad in The WB sitcom 'Raising Dad.'
Casting directors called me fat when I was a child
In an exclusive conversation with PEOPLE, Kat Dennings looks back at the harsh critiques she received from casting directors as a child actor and recalls how she was told she was "fat" at just 12 years old.
Bob Saget still holds a special place in Kat Dennings ' heart. Three years after the late actor's death, the Shifting Gears star, 38, remembers her former TV dad and explains why his kindness has stayed with her for decades, during an exclusive sit down with PEOPLE.
It was pretty crazy thinking about it. I’m like, ‘How can anyone say that about a little kid? This is insane,'” Dennings recalled.
Shifting Gears star Kat Dennings reflected on her time working with Bob Saget three years after his death. Dennings, 38, said Saget was “lovely” to work with and remembered his “protective” nature in an interview with People published on Saturday,
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While Dennings chatted about Hollywood Dads with People -- seeing as Carell played her step-father in The 4o-Year-Old Virgin and Tim Allen plays her father in her new sitcom on the 2025 TV schedule called Shifting Gears -- she had the following to say about Steve Carell and his "anxious energy" on set:
"It's surreal to work with him," the actress says of her costar on the new ABC sitcom Kat Dennings and Tim Allen are a father-daughter match made in TV heaven! Over the course of her decades-long career,
Kat Dennings revealed that casting directors said awful things to her, but her parents instilled a confident mindset into her.
Bob Saget was always "very protective" of Kat Dennings. The 38-year-old actress starred alongside Bob - who died in January 2022, aged 65 - on the short-lived TV sitcom 'Raising Dad', and Kat still has fond memories of working with the late actor.