Taylor Momsen is feeling further nostalgic this vacation season — and followers are loving each second of it.
The 32-year-old musician and former actress took to social media to share a full-circle second greater than 25 years within the making: making an attempt on her authentic Cindy Lou Who costume from How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Momsen famously performed the candy Whoville resident at simply six years previous within the 2000 vacation basic reverse Jim Carrey, and surprisingly, the costume nonetheless principally suits.
“Sure…that’s my actual Cindy costume from the Grinch film 🥰 25 years later…it nonetheless (form of) suits 🤣 what a surreal vacation season,” she captioned a video of herself slipping into the long-lasting look.
The put up comes amid a season of reflection for Momsen, who has been more and more open about her difficult relationship with the movie that made her a family identify. Whereas the film stays a beloved vacation staple, Momsen has admitted it wasn’t all the time simple rising up with such a recognizable function hooked up to her id.
“I spent a very long time, I don’t wish to say resenting Grinch as a result of that’s too harsh,” she stated on The Zach Sang Present. “I had a very, actually nice time making that movie and I’ve no unhealthy recollections of it by any means. However it was one thing that got here round yearly that I’d roll my eyes at.”
As a toddler, being labeled “the Grinch lady” felt overwhelming — however perspective modified with time. After going by what she described as a “very exhausting interval” in her life crammed with “plenty of loss and plenty of grief and plenty of melancholy,” Momsen started trying again at her previous with new eyes. Revisiting earlier chapters helped her reconnect with components of herself she as soon as pushed away, together with Cindy Lou Who.
That course of additionally led to a different significant milestone: re-recording “The place Are You Christmas?” — the music she initially carried out within the movie — together with her band, The Fairly Reckless. For years, followers begged for a rock model, one thing Momsen resisted.
“And so yearly, followers would beg for a rock model of ‘The place Are You Christmas?.’ And for 15 years, or no matter it was, I might hear all this and go, ‘That is by no means going to occur. In no world am I doing this,’” she informed Kerrang!.
That modified through the COVID-19 lockdown, when music turned a lifeline for the band. Recording the music unexpectedly was one thing particular.
“By the top of the music, 4 very, very depressing folks had big grins on our faces – silly grins – and we had been laughing and having a good time. All of us turned to one another and went, ‘I believe that may have been magic’,” Momsen recalled.
Now, she sees the music — and the film — as a part of her bigger story. “I needed so as to add issues from now, to present it context as to who I’m as an individual, and inform the story,” she stated. “It was attention-grabbing reflecting on my life and realizing all this. It was good to spend time with this and form of come to phrases with plenty of issues that I’d shunned from my previous.”
