Dakota Fanning ‘Looking Forward’ To New Roles
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Dakota Fanning doesn’t want to rush growing up but hopes people will take her more seriously as an actress. The 16-year-old star’s first major big screen role was alongside Sean Penn in I Am Sam when she was just six. Dakota has appeared in a string of hit movies since then and is anxious to continue developing her career.
The starlet recently played rocker Cherie Currie alongside Kristen Stewart in The Runaways and is confident the role proved she isn’t a child anymore.
"When you start out young, people get really attached to who you are at 6 years old," Dakota said in an interview with Marie Claire. "I hope that The Runaways was kind of a moment to be like, 'You know, I'm not that young little girl anymore, but I'm still not all grown up, either.'
“As you get older, there's so much more that you can do in films. I've never wanted to rush that; I've always wanted to do what's right for my age, but as you approach 18, a whole new world opens up to you as an actor, and I really look forward to that."
Dakota and Kristen shared a kiss in one scene of the movie and although the lip lock whipped up a media frenzy, the blonde star insists she didn’t think too much about the experience.
"It's out of the way, and it was with my friend and a girl - no pressure,” Dakota explained. “It was not something Cherie [Currie] and Joan [Jett] ever really spoke about, and that's how it was filmed - as not that big of a deal."
Dakota became good friends with Kristen on the set of The Runaways and the pair got the chance to work together again when Dakota joined the cast of Twilight.
Dakota plays a villainous vampire in the hit franchise and she loved wearing red contact lenses for the role. "It's something that's always been there for me, that I have huge blue eyes - it's been something that people have always talked about," Dakota added. "But I enjoyed the red. You're automatically transformed into a creature when you put those red eyes in."
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