OlderElle Fanning @ 2008 Sundance Film Festival
FAWNING OVER FANNING
Elle Fanning, Dakota’s little sister, attends the Cotton Market world premiere party for Phoebe In Wonderland held during the 2008 Sundance Film Festival on Sunday in Park City, Utah.
In the film, Elle, 9, plays a little girl named Phoebe, who struggles with her increasingly mysterious and obsessive behavior and her Alice in Wonderland-infused fantasy life. Phoebe seeks enlightenment from her unconventional drama teacher (Patricia Clarkson). Felicity Huffman plays Phoebe’s mother and Bill Pullman also co-stars.
Pictures of Elle and costar Felicity shooting scenes turned up back in May.
Also check out this interview with the film’s director Daniel Barnz at IonCinema.com.
Barnz spoke very highly of Elle: “We went to Elle Fanning, who had made an impression on me in both Door in the Floor and Babel. When I met her I was immediately struck – as I think many people are – by this kind of luminous quality she has about her. In fact, later on, when we were in the height of our pre-production stress and wondering how we were ever going to pull this off – we did our hair and makeup tests. Elle’s face appeared on the screen – there were probably ten people sitting in the room – and there were audible gasps. It sounds like a cliché but it was true – she literally lit up the screen. It really reassured all of us, knowing that we had that kind of presence in the role.”
Elle Fanning and Felicity Huffman in Phoebe In Wonderland
20+ pictures inside of Elle Fanning @ 2008’s Sundance Film Festival…
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Damn, she’s grown. Where the hell have I been. I feel so old and I’m only a teenager, haha.
She’s so cute! Just hope they don’t turn out like Britney or Lindsay.
Dakota is one of the best child actress in silver screen history.
she proved she can draw big box-office by herself tho..that’s very impressive….
Elle is cute & talented!
i love the fanning sisters!
Creepy.
She is so cute like Dakota!!!
XoXo
bulletin 14 !!
shes nine years old !!
shill dude. its my dream and
im 11 and school sucks you just
dont know what it feels to go to
school these days. there TALENTED girls the
fannings and dakota started reading at 2 ya`ll are
just jealous and i have to admit i am jealous of them
talented girls
Love the pics of her with Patricia Clarkson. They are adorable!
I don’t think in this families case it is so much of pimping out their kids, and I don’t think we will be seeing Dakota turn into a Britney, From interviews with her co-stars it seems that she is the one who wants this, she asked to go to an audition when she was younger. Denzel Washington said she was the best and most mature actress he has ever worked with, and that she takes the job very seriously. If her sister is anything like her then I don’t think there is much need to worry, or bash their parents. Some kids are just born to do the job and other are pushed unfortunatly, I think these two were born for this, and they have the personality for it. Look at Kirsten Dunst, she turned out to be fine even though she was a child star!
Whats creepy is many of the comments here.
Shes a beautiful kid that’s for sure. And she has thebest parents so you people can shut up. Elle loves acting, she’s the best!
Awwwwwwwww, what a cutie pie!
what a strange thread.
Aw, so cute. Both her and Dakota are amazing actresses, much better than Miley Cyrus, Zac Efron and the rest of those teeny-boppers.
She’s just as creepy looking as her sister.
she’s going to be bigger than dakota.
she looks cute
no… just… NO…
we dont need any more funking Fannings….
this one is MUCH worse then the sister… at least i could somewhat LOOK at dakota with little vomiting, but, no, this one is worse, and i agree with #14…
P.S>- i hates dakota fannings, and others alike
P.P.s>- #32, i know how school is, yur only in SIXTH GRADE!!!!
IM PHUCKIN DOUBLE THAT GRADE!!!!!
>: O!!!!!!!
yur just dumb, and NO, they are NOT talented….
they, like YOU, are dumb…
P.P.s>- #32, i know how school is, yur only in SIXTH GRADE!!!!
IM PHUCKIN DOUBLE THAT GRADE!!!!!
>: O!!!!!!!
yur just dumb, and NO, they are NOT talented….
they, like YOU, are dumb…
Didi and the others have a right to be concerned. Has anyone forgotten what happened to Dakota in the summer of 2006… and her consequent humiliation at Sundance just last year? Does anyone remember why?
Dakota was once as endearing, on and off the screen, as her little sister now is. All that changed when, at the age of 12, she was made into the youngest screen tramp in Hollywood history. When you’ve been exploited like that by your own agent and parents, what is the result; both long and short term, both personally and professionally? Historically… unpleasant. It’s reflected even now in Dakota’s life. Thelong term? Well, no child star has ever been subjected to repeated and graphic scenes of child sex and other abuses on a film set as she was in “Hounddog”. Britney and Lindsey had dream careers as children compared to Dakota… and look what’s happened to them.
Elle Fanning has not suffered like that. No other kids in feature films have. Therefore, her personal dearness is reputedly still intact. But she’s already been involved in R-rated movies. And she shares in her sister’s desecration by proxy. Worst of all, her life and career are managed by the same people who control her now pathetically degraded sister and are leading her to ruin.
How long before Elle Fanning is presented with her own “Hounddog” moment? She’s only 9, it’s true. But her sister was hardly an adult when her “moment of truth” was thrust upon her. And, while “Hounddog” failed to get a distributor and was widely decried by parents and children alike, it was never prosecuted, despite any number of broken child protection laws. Thus, a terrible precedent has been set. When the next overt attempt to bring legitimized child p*rn to the theaters occurs (and it will!) who better to fill the central role than the younger sister of the actress who vanguarded the movement?
This may not be what Elle wants. She has the advantage of knowing what her sister didn’t about the soul-numbing destructiveness of being sexually exploited like that… and from her sister’s own example. But, if and when that moment arrives, what will she do? Like it or not, her parents and agents command her life. And, as has already been remorsefully proven, the legal safeguards for children no longer extend to Hollywood.
God help the Fanning sisters, all child actors and, particularly, all the young supporters who generationally share in their abuse. No one else seems concerned anymore. Everyone should be.
SHE LOOKS WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY BTR WITHOUT GLASSES
SHE LOOKS WAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY BTR WITHOUT GLASSES
hahahahahah…lotta jealous people on here cutting down little kids…;
the fannings have fame and a lotta money…things you ******** will never see…..Didi,you are nothing in this world….the fanning sisters are,so go on and continue on with your sad life and ****** job and little money…hahahahah Dakota and Elle are talented beautiful young girls with their whole lives ahead of them….what do you have?? NOTHING! drop dead Didi,,no one will care…DIDI IS A NOBODY AND A LOSER
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