Dakota Fanning was asked “super inappropriate questions” as a child star

Dakota Fanning looks back on growing up as a child actress in Hollywood, including the bizarre aspects.

The perfect couple The actress, who made her television acting debut in 2000 at the age of six, recently shared: The cut for a cover story that she experienced strange interactions in interviews when she was younger.

“I remember journalists asking me in interviews when I was young, ‘How do you avoid becoming a tabloid girl?’ People would ask completely inappropriate questions,” she said. “As a kid, I was in a job interview and someone asked, ‘How did you even have friends?’ It’s like, Huh?”

Fanning added that she also has “great compassion for people who have been made into role models because of the former tabloid phenomenon of young Hollywood.”

“If society and the media hadn’t done their part, who knows?” Fanning continued, seemingly referencing how the perspective of children working in the industry had changed after the difficult childhoods of former child stars. “I don’t think it’s necessarily 100 percent related to being in this business; there are other factors too. I just didn’t fall for it and I don’t know the exact reasons, except that my family is made up of very nice, friendly and caring people.”

The dusk Graduate also praises her mother, Hannah Joy Arrington, for teaching her “how to treat other people and also myself.”

“She was there every second,” Fanning remembers. “I was always treated with respect. It was never, ‘Bring the child in! Get her out!’ I didn’t work with people who treated me like that – I was respected as an actor and was as equal as one can be at that age. When I look back on my life, my career is a very present part of it, but I also really think about the childhood memories. My life doesn’t conflict with work, and I’m so grateful for that. I’m there doing the work that matters.”

As for the “fallen child actor” idea, Fanning later noted that she “definitely felt that kind of vibe from people who almost wanted me to fail or something.” You feel a little protected. I just live my life here.”

After her TV debut on HE In 2000, Fanning rose to fame the following year for her role as Lucy Diamond Dawson in the 2001 film I’m Samalong with her sister Elle Fanning. Since then, she has starred in dozens of film and television projects.