Jennifer Love Hewitt Reflects On Being Viewed As A Sex Symbol As A Teen
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The actor reflects on being objectified after her breakout role in "I Know What You Did Last Summer" as she prepares to return to the horror franchise.
As she gears up for the revival of “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” Jennifer Love Hewitt is opening up about the inappropriate comments she received after first starring in the horror franchise 28 years ago.
Hewitt rose to fame as a child actor in the early 1990s, with roles on the Disney Channel series “Kids Incorporated” and the Fox teen drama “Party of Five.” She nabbed her breakout role, however, in 1997 when she starred as Julie James in the original “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” and found herself unprepared for being viewed as a sex symbol.
“When ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’ came out, everybody said, ‘Oh, I know what your breasts did last summer,’” Hewitt explained on an episode of “Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown” podcast this week. “There were grown men talking to me at 16 about my breasts, just openly on a talk show, and people were laughing about it.”
“I didn’t know what being sexy meant, and I was on the cover of Maxim magazines,” she added. “People would openly walk up and be like, ‘I took your magazine on a trip with me last week,’ And I’d have to be like, ‘Oh, ha ha.’ I didn’t really know what that meant ― it’s kinda gross.”
The film’s marketing certainly didn’t help. “I was so mad that I had done my first movie and worked so hard, and the only thing that you see is a movie poster with boobs on it,” she said.
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