‘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.
Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk
