There’s perhaps no more primal variety of feud in the world than the sibling rivalry, and it can get exponentially worse if those siblings happen to work in the same industry and compete for similar jobs. Fortunately, Dakota and Elle Fanning now have nothing but love and respect for one another, but there’s one long-ago project of Dakota’s that Elle just couldn’t get behind, thanks to a healthy dose of jealousy.
In a new cover interview with Net-a-Porter’s Porter magazine, Elle was discussing how she handles rejection when she recalled one of the first times she was turned down by a casting director. “I had an [audition] to be on Friends once. I might be remembering this wrong but I think I was gonna be one of Phoebe’s triplets,” she said. “I auditioned for it but I didn’t get it and I was like, ‘I’m boycotting the show, I’m never watching this again.’ Then my sister was on it and I refused to watch the episode,” she continued. “I was like, ‘I am not watching this!'”
Phoebe’s triplets appeared in episodes from 1998 to 2003, meaning the now-20-year-old Elle was auditioning for the role sometime between the ages of a few months old to five years old (Dakota was 10 when she appeared in an episode of the show’s final season), long enough ago that her childhood grudge has since worn off. In fact, Elle shared in the interview that she and Dakota are currently on the lookout for a project in which they can act side-by-side, and have a dream of starting a production company together, named after their grandmother: “We call her Gaba, so it could be Gaba Productions,” she said.
Plus, not only does Elle now fully support all of her sister’s onscreen projects, but she also even regularly revisits ones from around the dark days of her Friends boycott. “Dakota doesn’t know this, but I, like, will sometimes watch old videos of Dakota on talk shows when she was like, yeah, like six,” Elle told W in 2016. “She was so cute and I’ll just, like, watch them over and over again and they make me cry for some reason, but I’m very nostalgic.” No word, however, on whether she’s ever gone back and watched that fateful Friends episode. [Source]
With a new Miu Miu fragrance campaign and a revelatory vocal performance in the pop-powered movie Teen Spirit, Elle Fanning is on the rise.
In her first movie role at age three, Elle Fanning might have played a younger version of her sister, Dakota’s, character, but she didn’t stay in the shadow of her sibling for long. As she turns 21 this month, Elle has already racked up an impressive array of performances in her young career, variously playing a fairy-tale princess, a punk-rock alien, and a fashion victim in more than 30 films. “At first I would get mistaken for my sister,” she says. “Of course, to us we look nothing alike—we have completely different noses!”
Besides her film roles, Fanning has been garnering a lot of attention of late for her newest career move: In January, she was named the face of Miu Miu’s new fragrance, Twist. The scent combines sweet, effervescent top notes with a sensuous base of pink amber. “It’s hard and soft, which I quite like,” says Fanning.
Somewhat appropriately, part of the campaign for Twist—a short film shot by the artist collective Canada that traces a movie star’s chameleonic routine through multiple roles—plays on her seemingly limitless capacity for reinvention.
On camera she may recede into her roles, but at five foot nine, the statuesque actress is built to stand out. “I feel very comfortable being on the red carpet because Hollywood embraces my quirkiness,” says Fanning. “I always felt like it was a safe place to be—it was actually more like home than high school was.”
As a grade-schooler, Fanning, who still lives with her mother and grandmother in Los Angeles when she’s not working, enrolled at a prep school and did her best to have a normal life. But her daring fashion sense routinely drew stares. “I always felt like an outsider,” she recalls. “I remember once in seventh grade I got a pink shirt at Opening Ceremony that had Big Bird printed all over it, and I wore it with flared pants and wedges even though I was already quite tall.”
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Elle Fanning attends the 2019 iHeartRadio Music Awards which broadcasted live on FOX at Microsoft Theater on March 14, 2019 in Los Angeles. You can go to the gallery to take a look to the fantastic photos! Elle looks beautiful!
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“I always had this dream of being a pop star,” says Elle Fanning. Sitting at a corner table at West Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont in a gauzy ivory dress, the 20-year-old actress is so happy to be talking about how her dream finally came true in the new movie Teen Spirit that she lets her mint tea go cold. “That feeling, like I can just let loose and perform, was so attractive.”
In Teen Spirit, Fanning plays Violet Valenski, an introverted but tenacious English teenager who enters a singing competition in the hopes of escaping her dreary home life. Throughout the movie, Fanning sings various pop showpieces, in the end taking the stage in front of a live studio audience to deliver a primal performance of an unexpected song. To anyone familiar with Fanning’s career, her magnetism onscreen is no surprise. Still, watching her as Violet is like witnessing a best new artist Grammy winner at the moment of birth.
Written and directed by first-time filmmaker Max Minghella (perhaps best known as Nick on Hulu’s The Handmaid’s Tale), Teen Spirit, which LD Entertainment and Bleecker Street will release on April 5, follows Violet from her humble beginnings, half-heartedly singing ballads in a local pub, to the titular televised competition. The role required Fanning not only to cover existing songs like Robyn’s “Dancing on My Own,” but to also record an original track with producer Jack Antonoff, which Fanning calls a “super surreal” experience. “Jack did [Taylor Swift’s] reputation. He recorded [Lorde’s] ‘Green Light,’” she says. “I felt like, ‘Wow — maybe I am good.’”
Teen Spirit joins a rapidly expanding number of recent movies set within the music industry and led by young female actors who portray not pop personas, but real, complicated women. In the 2018 film Vox Lux, Natalie Portman played a school shooting survivor turned pop diva and sang original tracks written by Sia. Alex Ross Perry’s forthcoming Her Smell stars Elisabeth Moss as a messy, troubled, Courtney Love-style rocker. And then, of course, there’s A Star Is Born’s Ally, a character largely inspired by Lady Gaga herself.
“On some level it’s coincidence,” says Teen Spirit producer Fred Berger of this spate of films (Berger also produced 2016’s La La Land). “But music is one of the most manipulative tools we have. The [film] industry has caught up to the fact that, in an environment where people need an excuse to go to the movies, they want to feel something big.”
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