Jennifer Love Hewitt already has a long career behind her. In a recent podcast, she talks about the hypersexualization she experienced as a teenager, and the difficulty of growing old in a youth-obsessed Hollywood.
This is not exactly a discovery, as the subject has already been discussed many times. But the recent comments of actress Jennifer Love Hewitt have the merit of being a good reminder.
The 44-year-old star, whose notoriety was propelled in 1995 by joining the series La Vie à cinq, then two years later by following the example of her partner in the soap opera Neve Campbell by becoming the heroine of a slasher by Kevin Williamson, Remember… Last Summer (1997), already has a long career behind her.
In a recent podcast called Inside of You (via Deadline), the actress talks about her discomfort at having been largely sexualized when she was a teenager, and the difficulty of growing old when working in a Hollywood industry obsessed with the cult of the body and youth.
“I felt like I was constantly being watched. I felt like I had to be everything to everyone all the time. I was called ‘sexy’ before I even knew what it meant to be sexy .I was 17 when I was on the cover of Maxim magazine, and I didn’t know why.”
The actress of Maddie Buckley in the series 9-1-1 adds to find “weird”to put it mildly, that people still ask her to continue being the young girl she was then. “This girl was insecure and so disturbed” she continues; “I like who I am. I feel good. I’m good.”
“Growing old in Hollywood is really hard. It’s really hard because you can’t do anything right. […] Pretending that we don’t care is false. We are human and yes, we call them “haters”.
But it’s human nature to wonder what people think of us. I’ve been an actress for 36 years… You don’t want to worry about what people think of you, but you have to care about what they think of you. You want to know what they think of you.”