BREAKING NEWS: Kat Dennings ‘Had No Idea’ What Sex and the City Was When She Guest Starred on the Show at 14. giang

Kat Dennings is reminiscing about her time as a “Hot Child in the City” — and the perks that came with it.

The 2 Broke Girls star joined the hosts of The View on Tuesday, Jan. 7, to talk about her new ABC sitcom Shifting Gears. Toward the end of their conversation, Alyssa Farah reminded Dennings, her co-host, the studio audience and viewers at home that one of the actress’ earliest roles was in on Sex and the City.

Back in 2000, when Dennings was just 14 years old, she guest starred in a single episode of the hit HBO show’s third season. “Hot Child in the City,” which took its title from the 1978 Nick Gilder song featured prominently in the episode, saw Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) and co. confronting their inner children in various ways. For Samantha (Kim Cattrall), that came in the form of handling Jenny Brier (Dennings), a wealthy 13-year-old who hires the PR exec to oversee her star-studded bat mitzvah.

“It was very interesting because, of course, I wasn’t allowed to watch Sex and the City as a child,” Dennings, now 38, told the View hosts. “And we didn’t have cable even, our family, so, I really had no idea what the show was.”

“I auditioned for it. I was like, ‘What a weird show. What a weird title,’ ” she recalled. “And then on the way home, on the train, we saw a building — like, a Sex and the City billboard across the whole building.”

The show was such a massive hit back in the early 2000s that even Dennings’ guest appearance garnered the young actress a certain level of notoriety, long before she rose to fame in films like Charlie Bartlett (2007), The House Bunny (2008) and Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (2008).

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“After I did that and I walked into, like, The Gap in Pennsylvania, people were like, ‘Oh my God, it’s Jenny Brier! Like, give her the employee discount!’ ” she said. “I was getting discounts!”

Dennings, who starred in six seasons of 2 Broke Girls and has appeared in multiple Marvel movies and TV shows, joked that her guest appearance on Sex and the City is the only project she’s done that led to those kind of perks.