‘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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Dakota Fanning has been in the film industry since she was 6 years old, but the young actress will take on her first adult role in the upcoming period drama, “Effie.”
The film, which is slated for release in June 2012, follows the disastrous marriage between 19th-century art critic John Ruskin and his young bride Effie Gray. The tumultuous union ended after Effie fell madly in love with young artist John Everett Millais.

“It’s the ultimate bad marriage,” Oscar-winning actress Emma Thompson, who wrote the screenplay, told the Associated Press. “It happens to be a costume drama, but you could be doing a story with this kind of complexity and oddness in any period.”

Ruskin married Gray in 1848, when he was 29 and she was 19 and according to historians, on their wedding night, something about his bride horrified Ruskin and the union was not consummated. Ruskin claimed it was her personality, but Gray wrote that her husband “had imagined women were quite different to what he saw I was.”

“We’re talking about a girl who is objectified, and then disappoints a man by being real,” director Richard Laxton said. “If that isn’t relevant, I don’t know what is.”

At the time, divorce was illegal and so Gray suffered through the marriage until she fell in love with Millais, who was part of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood – a group of painters whose boldness shocked the Victorian art world. Read the rest of this entry »