Dakota Fanning Looks to the Future
Filed under: Drama, Independent, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Family Films, Newsstand, Cinematical Indie
Man, it must be terrible to be a 12-year-old child superstar and realize you can't rest on your laurels, but instead, must think about the future when your looks start to go and you just aren't the cutest thing around anymore. What's a pre-teen actor to do when this kind of problem inevitably arises? Thus is the current issue apparently confronting the precocious Dakota Fanning who was asked, according to a recent AP story, what she might want to do when she grows up. Her answer? Are you sitting down? Good. She wants to direct.According to the article, Fanning was asked about her future career plans during an interview for Time Magazine promoting her upcoming films Charlotte's Web and the indie-drama Hound Dog. "I would love to direct someday," Fanning told the magazine. "I've learned a lot from watching directors I've worked with, like Steven Spielberg and Gary Winick, whom I worked with on Charlotte's Web. I would love to have that relationship with another actor." Well, I guess if you've spent that much time with talented directors like those, something is bound to rub off, right? What a great way to learn.
Besides, there are many directors working today who started out as actors -- the most successful probably being Ron Howard. But there's also, of course, Mel Gibson, Kevin Costner, Danny De Vito and one of my personal heroes Orson Welles. I'm sure I missed a bunch more. To be honest, Dakota Fanning is one of the few child actors who doesn't bug me when I watch her films -- I especially liked her in Man on Fire. Maybe its her or more the directors or actors she works with. Whatever the reason, if I had to bet on someone making a successful transition from actor to director I would have to bet on her. Plus, she's just so darn cute -- and that never hurts either.
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12-11-2006 @ 10:01PM
Jason said...
that's quality material - i love it...
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12-11-2006 @ 9:45PM
Kaonashi said...
I forsee Dakota Fanning as the next Jodie Foster. She seems so serious and drive at such a young age. Like Foster, I can see Fanning take a few years off to go to college, then crank out some heavy duty movies every couple of years.
I just hope that she doesn't fall into the child actor trap that so many, many have before her. I really don't want to see this gifted little girl stumbling drunkenly out of a bar 10 years from now a la Lindsay Lohan.
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12-11-2006 @ 9:49PM
shelly said...
what child actor (or adult actor for that matter) doesnt want to grow up and direct. I think its a common dream. in this case however, I bet dakota's dream comes true. what more has she got to do? she is on the brink of 13 and has just about done it all.
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12-18-2006 @ 11:38PM
Sandy said...
Please try not to put a disgusting low life pig like Mel Gibson into the same sentence as such truly decent and talented human beings like Kevin Costner, Ron Howard, Danny DeVito, etc.
Thanks so much and Happy Holidays to all.
Sandy
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