Jennifer Love Hewitt Pulled a Director Aside Who Told Her She Needed to Act Sexier, She Replied: ‘I Don’t Know What That Means. I’m Only 23’
variety.comZack Sharf Digital News Director Jennifer Love Hewitt appeared on the “Inside of You” podcast and revealed she once had to pull a filmmaker aside on set because he was telling her she had to be sexier.
As an actor in her early twenties, Hewitt had no idea what such a request even meant. She said that she never felt like she was “in her body” as a young actor as she was constantly sexualized from a young age. “I didn’t feel self-confident.
I felt watched. I felt like I had to be everything for everybody all the time,” Hewitt said. “I was called sexy before I ever knew what being sexy was.
I was 17 years old on the cover of Maxim, and I had no idea why I was on the cover of Maxim. I was honored. I loved it. But why?” “I remember doing ‘Heartbreakers’ at 23 and the director was like, ‘We just need you to be sexier.’ I had to pull him aside and be like, ‘I don’t know what that means.
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