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Many actors deal with fans confusing them with their characters. But not many have a term like "adorkable" following them around.
Unfortunately for Zooey Deschanel, the star of Fox's New Girl since 2011, a cute marketing ploy for the show's first season has dogged her ever since. The combination of the words "dorky" and "adorable"—featured on billboards for the show's first season—has come to define people's perception of the actress.
"[Adorkable] was something that was calculated, you know what I mean?" she tells The Huffington Post.
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