Dakota Fanning Steps Out For Children’s Rights
TEEN star Dakota Fanning hit the red carpet for the First Star Celebration For Children’s Rights at the Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles, CA., Sunday night.
The 15-year-old — who plays Jane in New Moon and Eclipse, the sequels to Twilight, based on the novel by Stephenie Meyer — recently revealed that she accepted a role the smash hit vampire movie franchise because it sounded like fun and she was desperate to be a part of it.
“I read all four Twilight books in one week,” she told Teen Vogue. “It’s such a phenomenon, and I wanted to be able to say that I was a part of it.”
Asked how she prepared for the role, Fanning said, “I wasn’t in my mirror like Zoolander, doing the Blue Steel!
“The red contacts were enough.”
Fanning’s plans for the future? “I’m going to get older,” she said. “And I want to act for the rest of my life — it’s what I love — so I have to move forward with my career. The choices that I make might not always please everyone, but I have to do what I feel is appropriate and right for the time.
“I get my rebellion out through my movies. I’m boring in that way. I enjoy having a normal life.”
Dakota says that despite her celebrity, the kids at her private school in Los Angeles have never treated her differently to anyone else.
“I started there in the ninth grade, and they were pretty receptive to me right away, ” she said. “I really wanted a home base, because I feel like no matter how old people are, they remember homecoming. They remember their senior prom. And I really wanted that.”
[Pic: Tina Gill]
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