Before we knew that Elle Fanning was Dakota’s younger sister, she was playing the younger version of her sister in I am Sam. How absolutely awwwwdorable is the 2 year old in that 2001 movie.
Elle Fanning was a guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live yesterday and the ABC host asked her if she has a boyfriend or any crushes. The 14 year old giggled like a school girl when she admitted that she has a thing for Ryan Gosling. In fact she also let him know that her mother got her the Ryan Gosling coloring book for Christmas. The teen was so happy with her gift that she made sure to rewatch all of his movies to get the coloring of his shirts correct. Because no one would want to see the actor in the wrong colored shirt.
Hopefully in 4 years when she is of legal age and he is twice her’s, he will consider taking her on a date. That is if she is still interested in him because a lot can happen to someone in their high school years.
BTW I love that she is such an endearing a teenager who acts her age and not like she is 14 going 50. That makes the extremely talented actress even more lovable.
Elle Fanning was on The Tonight Show on Friday and Jay Leno asked her about getting her first on-screen kiss! As soon as he started asking her the question, she started to giggle and blush about it and that was just so cute to watch. It’s almost as though the 14 year old was telling her friends about her first kiss with that boy she likes likes as compared to the TV world. Seriously how refreshing was it to see a teen star act like a teenager and not like a grown up?
BTW I think she really has a long future in this business, she is just so talented and likable. Even more so than her sister, who I think had such potential but some how blew it along the way with bad movie choices.
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When Dakota Fanning was photographed with short hair on the set of Now is Good, a lot people thought she really cut off her long blonde locks. Well as you can see in the above photo it was just a wig. If she wouldn’t shave her head for My Sister’s Keeper, why would she cut it short for another film. Personally I think she needs to change up that hairstyle because it does nothing for her.
Amen! Even though the critics said the rape scene was not that bad, it was still was, in my opinon, too much for a 12 year old girl with so much talent to go through for a role. I wonder how her mom and agent, who made her do it for a possible Oscar, feel now that her movie will most likely go straight-to-DVD only!
Dakota Fanning had to work hard to persuade her parents she should keep a controversial birthday present from Tom Cruise. The 12-year-old was sent a mobile phone by her War Of The Worlds co-star, but her parents initially thought she was too young to keep the grown-up gadget. She recalls, "My mom and dad really don’t approve of mobile phones and they really didn’t want me to have one. But then on my birthday this parcel arrived from Tom and it was a phone. In the end they let me keep it."
Cute-as-a-button child star Dakota Fanning, who turned 12 in February, is venturing into sexually disturbing territory in a movie being filmed in North Carolina. The screenplay for "Hounddog" – a dark story of abuse, violence and Elvis Presley adulation in the rural South, written and directed by Deborah Kampmeier – calls for Fanning’s character to be raped in one explicit scene and to appear naked or clad only in "underpants" in several other horrifying moments.Fanning’s mother, Joy, and her Hollywood agent, Cindy Osbrink, see the movie as a possible Oscar vehicle for the pint-size star. But despite Fanning’s status as a bankable actress – whose movies, including last year’s "War of the Worlds," have earned more than half a billion dollars since 2001 – the alarming material seems to have scared off potential investors from the under-$5 million indie project."The two taboos in Hollywood are child abuse and the killing of animals," a source close to the situation told me. "In this movie, both things happen."Fanning’s carefully choreographed rape scene has already been filmed. But then the production – which also stars Robin Wright Penn, David Morse and Piper Laurie – was shut down for lack of funds. Penn, who’s also an executive producer, gave a pep talk to the dispirited cast in the days leading up to the shutdown. The desperate producer, Jen Gatien, daughter of former club czar Peter Gatien, sent out an SOS to New York entertainment entrepreneur Lawrence Robins. Robins located emergency investors, filming resumed, and the movie is scheduled to wrap tomorrow."The subject matter is very tough," Robins told me, "but I was attracted to it because in the end it’s a story about human understanding, about a little girl who’s dealt a very bad deck of cards, but finds solace in the music of Elvis and survives."The script requires the preteen actress to confront tougher challenges than Brooke Shields and Jodie Foster did when, at Fanning’s age, they played child prostitutes."It’s not just the rape scene – the whole story is challenging Dakota as an actress," Fanning’s longtime agent, Osbrink, told me. "And I’ve never been so proud of her in my life. I’ve seen the dailies, and in every scene she gets better and better."
This is child pornography. Dakota’s parents need to be locked up over this. This will f()ck Dakota up for the rest of her life. Look at all the anguish that both Jodie Foster and Brooke Shields went through in their lives for doing the same thing. Are her parents so desperate to live through Dakota to get an Oscar that they are making her do this? Then she should be taken away from them. She is an Oscar worthy actress and she will get that Oscar, but she does not need to do this. Just look at well Oscar nominations or wins at such a young age worked out for River Phoenix, Linda Blair, Tatum O’Neal and Haley Joel Osment.
If you want write Cindy Osbrink and tell her you feel about this do so at:
Oscar may be almost 80, but he’s still young at heart – enough to keep company with Heath Ledger and even Dakota Fanning.
On Thursday, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which hands out the Oscars each year, invited 120 artists and executives to join its ranks – including such young actors as Ledger, 27, Fanning, 12, Keira Knightley, 21, and Jake Gyllenhaal, 25.
"Most people who aren’t really aware of the Academy think it’s probably a bunch of elderly people," AMPAS director Bruce Davis told the Associated Press. "They’re not thinking Scarlett Johansson and Maggie Gyllenhaal, they’re thinking really old guys. That’s a hard perception to overcome."
"Two years ago the Academy decided to slow membership growth, and to become even more selective in choosing members," Academy president Sid Ganis said in a statement. "Instead of inviting every proposed person who has achieved the minimum qualifications for his or her branch, the membership committees are selecting the most exceptionally qualified names from those lists."
The Academy will welcome new members on Sept. 20 at a reception at its Fairbanks Center for Motion Picture Study in Beverly Hills.
