Dakota Fanning It’s one of those exceptions within the industry where a child star ends up shining despite the complications of fame and transition to adult life. And there are many artists who, after shining on the big screen when they were children, end up abandoning the profession prematurely or being relegated to the background. As happened, for example, to the actor of The sixth senseHaley Joel Osment. But unlike most others, Fanning maintained a regular filmography in which today it is a trend thanks to brilliant works like Ripley. Today, while the American was promoting her latest projects, she stopped to think about all of them these uncomfortable questions that they asked her in interviews when she was just a child.
After a few years of supporting roles and small jobs, Dakota Fanning regained her international status in part thanks to Netflix, with the production of the adaptation of Steven Zaillian and the recently released miniseries The perfect couple. All this at a time when it seemed that his little sister Elle had surpassed him both commercially and in the number of interesting projects on his future cinematic agenda. Of course, we’ll see them both together in the WWII drama, THE Nightingale under the direction of Mélanie Laurent. Although she has gone unnoticed over the past decade, at 30, Fanning has already almost 25 years of work in the industry alongside the world’s best actors and filmmakers. A phenomenon quite similar to that of other great interpretative figures like Drew Barrymore or Natalie Portman. A whole generation of stars who did not have it easy at a time when minor actors were not as protected.
Inappropriate questions
Dakota Fanning grew up with everything a generation of millennialsbut now in her thirties, she seems ready to reveal new facets of herself. In fact, he also took his first steps in production, purchasing, with the company he owned with his sister, the exclusive rights to Memoirs of Paris Hilton.
Nominated at the last edition of the Emmy Awards for her character of Marge in Ripleythe eldest Fanning seems to have made this definitive leap towards adult roles, already being very far from concept of happy and innocent girl which he exuded in his early international development as an artist. An environment in which at the start of her career she was asked, as she describes it well, questions “super inappropriate”:
“When I was a kid, during interviews, I remember journalists asking me, ‘How do I avoid becoming a tabloid girl?’ “People asked me very inappropriate questions,” the actress told The cut. Later, she said they even asked her how she could have friends when she was so famous. Some of the problems Fanning attributes to the fact that in Hollywood there is a kind of “vibe” that people want you to fail. “It makes you feel a little defensive,” he noted.
Finally and similarly, he said he didn’t feel never treated differently on set, even though I was a child among adults: “They always treated me with respect. They never said to me, ‘Bring the girl!’ Get her out! I haven’t worked with people who treated me like that. They respected me as an actress and treated me with the same equality that one can have at that age. When I reflect on my life, my career is a very present part of it, but I also think a lot about childhood memories. My life doesn’t seem so out of proportion to work and I’m very grateful for that. “I’m here to do work that matters.”
A big leap as an actress
Dakota Fanning’s debut behind the cameras took place on television, no more and no less than in an episode of the series Friends. But its move to the big screen wouldn’t be minor, premiering on celluloid with names like Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer and Laura Dern in the drama I am Sam. But being accompanied by the great totems of the industry is something that she will repeat throughout her filmography. Denzel Washington in The fire of revengeTom Cruise in war of the worldsKurt Russell in Path to victory…all a series of major productions this made her a star widely recognized by the public.
However, in the impasse of his adolescence, Fanning already has the big screen presence of yesteryear, outside of his fame has regained streaming. A new stage for an actress in full transformation.
