Jim Carrey plays the titular character, a bad-tempered, Christmas-hating creature who delights in terrorising the citizens of Whoville.
The Whos are characterised by elaborate hairstyles and upturned noses.
However, Cindy Lou Who is the only member of the town who doesn’t have an upturned nose.
Gossip Girl actress-turned-rocker Taylor Momsen plays Cindy Lou. She was only six at the time of filming, which meant that working conditions were very different for the child actor.
Momsen told The Today Show that she remembered having a lot of fun on that set.
“I mean the prosthetics, for example, all the Whos wore prosthetics, but I was too young to actually wear the prosthetics, so they wrote a line into the film of, 'She hasn't even grown into her nose yet.’”
"So, they just put a little blush on my nose."
Despite missing out on the characteristic nose, Momsen was able to wear outrageous hairdos and false teeth.
"I remember it was the first time I'd ever worn a wig in my life. Putting all my hair into the bobby pins and into the wig cap and the big wig every day," she explained.
"It was the first time I ever wore fake eyelashes, and I had the fake teeth, and I remember with the fake teeth, I hated the taste of the glue that went in... and so I wouldn't take them out once I put them in and I would eat with them and everything."
