Dakota Fanning

When Dakota Fanning walks into a room, your first impression is that she is just your average, fourteen-year-old girl, not an A-list movie star with a couple dozen credits on her resume. Her blue outfit and matching sky blue necklace are exactly what you’d expect a young teen to wear. For a moment, you’re almost fooled by her childish laugh and energetic smile. Her outfit might not look different than what any other fourteen-year-old girl would wear. However, when she confidently pulls out her chair, sits down, and stares each and every person occupying the room in the eye, waiting for whatever question is throw her way, you begin to realize that something is very different. Somehow a young girl, not yet old enough to apply for a temporary driver’s license, has a room full of middle-aged writers looking at her.

Her rather modest, yet confident entrance leaves a group of adults temporarily swimming in their own confusion, silently wondering how a girl, probably the same age as their own children, could make them sit up straight and talk to her with so much respect. What you begin to notice is that this teenager is a young women way ahead of her years. Few girls have lived a life like Dakota Fanning.

“It is kind of weird sometimes, because I am so young,” said Fanning. “But I love getting to have my life documented through my films. It’s something to be able to look back and see how things have changed.”

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