Dakota Fanning started NYU this fall — but she’s not living like your regular freshman.
Instead of living in the dorms on campus, the “Twilight” star is renting out a two-bedroom, two-bathoom, $8,400/month apartment. Not too shabby, right?
The place boasts a kitchen with top-of-the-line appliances, soaking tub and a ton of windows. The building also has a 24-hour doorman and sundeck with panoramic views of the city.
No word on if she’s got a roomie, but the building reportedly has at least one other famous tenant: John Mayer.
As the stars of films including I am Sam, War of the Worlds and Somewhere – as well as fashion campaigns for Marc Jacobs and Rodarte – Dakota and Elle Fanning are no strangers to the spotlight.
But a new interview paints a portrait of two girls that sound like any other teenagers – albeit ones with incredibly successful movie careers.
Dakota, 17, and Elle, 13, who pose together in the latest issue of Vogue, discuss school uniforms, Hello Kitty obsessions and borrowing each others’ clothes.
Elle, it appears, is passionate about fashion, sketching her own designs in her spare time.
Her sister told the magazine: ‘I am in the normal range when it comes to clothes. Elle is not normal.’
Though Dakota is also into fashion (how could one fail to be inspired after modelling for Marc Jacobs), her main focus these days is on college.
She admitted she was both excited and nervous about starting at NYU this September.
‘It’ll be different and scary but everyone does it!’ she said. ‘And it’ll be nice to have a space that’s just my own. I can have Hello Kitty ice trays and no one can tell me that I can’t.’
Elle, meanwhile, is due to start middle school. She said she was relieved to be free of her elementary school uniform of navy skirt or trousers and a white shirt.
‘It’s hard to find navy,’ she explained. ‘You have to go to the gross uniform store.’
Neither of the girls has let their acting career slide though.
Elle is to appear in We Bought A Zoo in December and Francis Ford Coppola’s Twixt Now and Sunrise as well as the Twilight saga, while Dakota can next be seen in The Motel Life and Very Good Girls.
The balance between school and movie commitments sounds like a demanding juggling act, but Dakota admitted that she and her sister didn’t know any different.
‘I’ve been working since I was six, Elle since two,’ she said. ‘What you grow up with is what you become used to.
‘When you choose to do this with your life, you’re in the public and people watch you. But I’d rather do this than not.’
The full feature appears in the August issue of Vogue, on newsstands nationwide from today, and on Vogue.com
Turns out that hiatus from acting didn’t last as long as one would have thought, but Hollywood is a fickle place and I’m sure Dakota Fanning knows better than anyone that “one day you’r in, and the next day you are out”. Which is probably why in less than a month the elder Fanning sister has signed on to star in three films, the first is GIRLS’ NIGHT OUT, next up is MOTEL LIFE and finally MISSISSIPPI WILD. In MOTEL LIFE, Fanning will join Emile Hirsch and Stephen Dorff, which follows a couple of brothers who are on the lamb after they are involved in a hit-and-run accident. No word on what role Fanning will play in that. The other film is called MISSISSIPPI WILD and follows a young teenage boy (Ryan Donowho) and his girlfriend (Fanning) who steal some diamonds from a local gangster. Right now MISSISSIPPI WILD has three actors in the running to star: Robert Duvall, Forest Whitaker and Mickey Rourke.
MOTEL LIFE is set to start shooting this month and MISSISSIPPI WILD should begin shooting at the end of next month.
Michael Hoffman will direct US starlet in true story of how Margaret and sister Elizabeth celebrated the end of war
Former child star Dakota Fanning is to play Princess Margaret in a new film exploring her teenage years with her sister, the Queen.
Inspired by real-life events, Girls’ Night Out will be filmed later this year, Variety reports. It concerns a weekend in which the two royals were allowed out of Buckingham Palace to celebrate the end of the second world war alongside the rest of the country in 1945.
Fanning will take the role of Margaret, with an as yet unnamed actor playing Elizabeth. The director is Michael Hoffman, who filmed 2009 Tolstoy biopic The Last Station and recently unveiled Gambit, a crime caper remake written by the Coen brothers due to arrive next year.
Elizabeth and Margaret appeared on screen earlier this year as young girls in the Oscar-nominated British film The King’s Speech, which focuses on the efforts of their father, King George VI, to overcome a stammer. Hoffman directed Helen Mirren – who played a septuagenarian Elizabeth in The Queen – in The Last Station.
Fanning, 16, is best known for appearances in films such as War of the Worlds, alongside Tom Cruise, and I Am Sam, with Sean Penn. She recently graduated to more adult-orientated roles with a lead part in the rock biopic The Runaways and supporting turns in the vampire romance series Twilight.
Girls’ Night Out is being produced by Ecosse Films, which specialises in movies based on real-life figures. The company’s Becoming Jane, from 2007, starred Anne Hathaway as Jane Austen, while last year’s Nowhere Boy featured Aaron Johnson as the young John Lennon. The new film will be written by Trevor De Silva.
Princess Margaret died in 2002 at the age of 71. At the time of the events of Girls’ Night Out, she would have been 15 and Elizabeth 19.
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Keeping up her homecoming queen looks, Dakota Fanning was spotted out at a local gym in Los Angeles, California on Saturday afternoon (November 27).
The 16-year-old actress was decked out in casual workout gear as she headed inside the fitness center to burn off those calories still lingering from Thanksgiving dinner with the family.
On the career front, Miss Fanning has cleared out her schedule to shoot her role as Jane in the two part “Twilight Saga” finale “Breaking Dawn” – which has just begun filming with locations including Louisiana and Vancouver.
A synopsis of the film – which sees the first installment hit theaters in November 2011 – via IMDB tells, “The Quileute and the Volturi close in on expecting parents Edward and Bella, whose unborn child poses different threats to the wolf pack and vampire coven.”
Enjoy the pictures of Dakota Fanning out for a weekend workout (November 27).
Dakota Fanning is adding a new acolade to the many she already holds. Over the weekend Dakota was crowned Homecoming Queen at Campbell Hall High School. The 16 year old was part of the homecoming court last year and this year took the title. The ‘Eclipse’ sate was said to have donned an short sleeved white dress, covered in gold studs, tights and black booties as she walked down the Campbell Hall football field with homecoming king Henry Aleck.
Fanning is now a senior at Campbell Hall in North Hollywood where she attends when she is not working. Fanning is grateful to be going to school rather then being schooled on set and she plans to continue her education after graduation. This is a sure sign that Dakota is growing up. She told the Today show about how important she thinks it is to have the a high school experience is and that she has been quite fortunate to have a school that can allow her to act and experience high school.
Fanning can be currently seen in Twilight: Eclipse and will soon be filming the next two Twilight films ‘Breaking Dawn’ part one and two which are due out November 18, 2011 and November 16, 2012.
Dakota Fanning has admitted that she never feels completely secure in her job as an actress.
The actress, who appeared most recently in The Twilight Saga: Eclipse, wants to keep making movies, but confessed that it is not the most secure profession, reports Naa Noo.
“I know this is what I want to do for the rest of my life but I think that everything can end tomorrow. You have to live your life for the moment and not take it for granted. I don’t think you ever feel completely secure,” she said.
Meanwhile, Fanning, who has been acting since the age of 7, acknowledged that there are still people that she would like to work with in Hollywood.
“I’d love to work with Jodie Foster. I really admire her, her career and what she’s done. I can only hope to be just a little bit of how great she is,” she added.
Fanning is currently preparing to begin filming Breaking Dawn, the final instalment of The Twilight Saga.
