Arts Interview: Flight of Fanning
More than a decade after finding fame as a child star, Dakota Fanning is now becoming recognised as an actor of substance in her own right, writes James Mottram.
It’s alarming to think that Dakota Fanning is still only 20 years old. At a time when most young adults are just finding their feet, studying at college or undertaking their first jobs, Fanning has already been working for two-thirds of her life, breaking through in the 2001 movie I Am Sam. Perhaps it was no surprise that Fanning was cast as Lucy, the precocious seven-year-old daughter to Sean Penn’s mentally challenged father. ...
