Kat Dennings Doubles Up, Shooting Thor: The Dark World and 2 Broke Girls at Once

Q: Did Kat Dennings shoot Thor: The Dark World on a break from 2 Broke Girls? —Rob G., Athens, Ga.

A: No such luck. Dennings, 27, shuttled between TV in L.A. and film in England with no downtime. “It was a very tight squeeze,” she says. “The jet-lag was all-consuming,” she says. “I was performing in sort of a dream state.”

Online Extra: Dennings dishes on the saucy flavor of 2 Broke Girls and more.

Does CBS ever object to some of the more risqué jokes on the show?
I think they’ve just given up at this point. A few times, we’d get an angry email like the day before shooting, saying, “Wait a second! You can’t say that on TV.” The best part of the show’s charm is the raunchiness and the pushing of the envelope. But the difference is it’s done by two girls who are very pure. It’s somehow forgivable. If it was delivered by some other kind of person, it would be extremely offensive.

Do you film jokes that don’t make it onto the air?
Sometimes they give us a joke to just wake up the audience. Something so insane that the audience losses their mind, and it just keeps them excited. When we throw in extremely raunchy jokes, they love it.

Have you ever gotten embarrassed performing some of the material?

I did during season one, but not any more. Now they can pretty much have me say anything. That’s all out the window.

In Thor: The Dark World, your character, research assistant Darcy Lewis, doesn’t wear glasses as much as she does in the first film. Is she breaking out of her nerd cocoon?
Well, glasses don’t necessarily make the nerd. I wear glasses in real life too, so I think they’re pretty awesome. But, yeah, Darcy wears glasses less in this movie. I don’t know whether it was a conscious decision, but I wore my contact lenses [more]. I actually had a bit of an emergency when we were shooting in London, because I thought I was going to wear glasses the whole movie, and I only brought enough contacts for a few days, for my personal life. And when I realized I wasn’t going to be wearing glasses I was like, whoa! I can’t see! They had to bring an eye doctor onto the set and write me a new prescription, pretty much.