Kat Dennings talks breaking down on ‘Shifting Gears’

Kat Dennings, an American actress, sat down for an interview on the Not Gonna Lie podcast where she opened up about an emotional moment for her and Tim Allen on Shifting Gears.

“We were both dreading it,” she explained, “We were like, ‘Oh God, we have to cry. What is this?’ It’s like, I looked at him and I started crying, he looked at me and he started crying. It was real.”

“In the first episode, we both got emotional and it was real,” the Thor actress added.

About filming the show, she said that it is “a really interesting experience because we are dealing with grief and real issues.”

“It feels kind of crazy to be raw and emotional in front of an audience like that,” Dennings remarked, “And it's this incredible combination of theater and burlesque or something like that. But as soon as I look into Tim Allen's little face, I'm in there.”

She continued, “I forget about everything else because … he's a very present actor, and he's really feeling these things. I mean, I really haven't experienced that a huge amount because, like me, people are thinking about their next line or whatever they're doing. He's so in the moment, and he's such an amazing actor, and he will just be there with you.”

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