“I can laugh at it now, like, ‘What a disgusting pig!’” she said in a new interview.
Elle Fanning says she once lost a role at 16. Elle Fanning got real about dealing with “disgusting” comments made about her when she was a child actor.
During a roundtable conversation for The Hollywood Reporter, Fanning recalled losing out on a film opportunity at 16 years old because she was deemed “unfuckable.”
“I was very protected, I have an amazing manager and agent who’ve been with me since I was 8 or 9, same people, which is [rare] … and I recognize that,” she said. She noted that her manager’s protection extended to filtering out “damaging comments” that may have hurt her when she was younger.
“I’ve never told this story, but I was trying out for a movie. I didn’t get it. I don’t even think they ever made it, but it was a father-daughter road trip comedy,” she continued. “I didn’t hear from my agents because they wouldn’t tell me things like this—that filtration system is really important because there’s probably a lot more damaging comments that they filtered—but this one got to me. I was 16 years old, and a person said, ‘Oh, she didn’t get the father-daughter road trip comedy because she’s unfuckable.’”
She added, “It’s so disgusting. And I can laugh at it now, like, ‘What a disgusting pig!’”
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Of navigating fame as a child star, Fanning said, “I was always immensely confident, but of course you’re growing up in the public eye, and it’s weird. I’ll look at paparazzi photos from when I was 12 and think, ‘Is that a good thing to see such a mirror of yourself at that age?’ I don’t feel like it damaged me, but it definitely made me very aware of myself.”
Fanning has since gone on to star in movies like Maleficent, Teen Spirit, and All the Bright Places, as well as earn an Emmy nomination for her lead role in Hulu’s The Great. She talked about coming into her own in a recent interview with Harper’s Bazaar UK.
“These days, I feel like my voice matters,” she said. “For a while, I’d be like, ‘Oh well, I’m young, people don’t necessarily want to listen to me, they probably know more anyway.’ But there comes a point when you register that you’ve been doing this for 20 years.”
