‘I don’t have a Twitter account and I won’t ever’: Dakota Fanning explains how she maintains a private life

She has successfully made the tricky transition from child star to Hollywood starlet.

And Dakota Fanning has achieved it by doing her best to live a normal, quiet life.

One thing the Twilight Saga actress has vowed is that she will never join the ranks of social networking sites, stating that she values her privacy too much.

In an interview with Wonderland magazine, the youngster said: ‘I really don’t need to let people know where I am and what I’m doing. I feel like a lot of people want their privacy but yet they tell people where they are.

‘It’s just not for me. I don’t have a Facebook or Twitter and I won’t ever. There’s plenty of impostors out there. There’s enough Dakota Fannings on Twitter for all of us.’

Dakota, who is currently studying at NYU, found fame aged seven in I Am Sam, where she played Sean Penn’s daughter.

However despite starting in front of the cameras at an early age, Dakota insists she never considered herself a child star.

She told Wonderland: ‘I’ve never really felt like a child star. That name always felt really odd to me.

‘I’ve just felt like I was an actor at six and seven and, you know, a child who happened to act. But when you turn 18 you’re seen as able to do more things and more roles.’

It was while filming I Am Sam that she first realised she could make a career out of acting.

She said: ‘For someone who’s that young to feel completely at home being filmed playing someone else, that really means that that’s where you belong.

‘So that’s how I view that film as a whole – as a moment when I just realised, “I could do this. I could do this forever”.’

Dakota’s candid interview with the magazine for its April/May 2012 cover is accompanied by a quirky fashion shoot.

The actress’s musings about her transition into adulthood are reflected in the coming-of-age style shoot, shot by Cedric Buchet.

Dakota looks like a living doll in the mixture of colourful and black-and-white images, which see the starlet’s golden locks styled into curls as she models a series of chic outfits.

As well as her role in the Twilight Saga coming to an end in the final instalment, which hits cinemas in November, fans will see Dakota portray the title role In Effie, which looks at the unusual relationship between Victorian art critic John Ruskin and his teen bride Effie Gray.

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Dakota Fanning has grown up in front of the camera — and today, she turns 18!

The young actress got her start doing TV appearances on shows like “Ally McBeal” and “Spin City,” before getting her first big break starring alongside Sean Penn in “I Am Sam.”

From there, Dakota’s career was off and running — co-starring with Tom Cruise, Mike Myers, Robert DeNiro and Julia Roberts in flicks like “War of the Worlds,” “The Cat In the Hat,” “Hide and Seek” and “Charlotte’s Web.”

Recently, she juggled projects like playing the evil Jane in the “Twilight” movies with high school, where she was a cheerleader. Dakota graduated in June 2011.

Fanning currently attends NYU … but may be the only undergrad who also mingles with Natalie Portman, George Lucas and Marc Jacobs in the front row of New York Fashion Week‘s hottest shows.

Through it all, Dakota has remained a pretty, stylish and well-adjusted girl … and for that, we applaud her.

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It’s been nearly a year since the news broke that Dakota Fanning had joined the cast of  “Girl’s Night Out”, Michael Hoffman’s film based on the true story of how the future Queen of Britain, Princess Elizabeth, and her sister Princess Margaret celebrated VE Day in 1945. Alexandra Roach joined the cast back in November, but as with all films long in gestation, it looks like Fanning has dropped out of the project – allowing British actress Juno Templeto jump into the role.

When the film was first announced back in February 2011, the plot details weren’t too specific, stating ” When [Princess Margaret] and her sister Elizabeth are allowed out from Buckingham Palace for one night to join in the celebrations, the night encompasses thrills, romance and danger.” However Britain’s Daily Mail now have further information, “Elizabeth has an innocent romance (this bit is totally fictional, folks!) with a recently returned soldier, who doesn’t realise he’s hanging out with a princess. The pair even go dancing at the Ritz.”

Temple was one of our Faces to Watch in 2012, and this year alone will see her in dark comedy “The Brass Teapot” opposite Michael Angarano, and filming thriller “Magic Magic” opposite Michael Cera. This is a great coup for the actress however, who will get her first big breakout in perhaps the most anticipated film of the year, Christopher Nolan’s “The Dark Knight Rises”.

Filming on “Girls’ Night Out” is set to start this Fall on location in London.

source: upandcomers.net