At the age of four, Jeff Bridges taught him to draw legs beyond the basic two sticks during a filming break. Elle Fanning unknowingly began acting at age two, when she became the younger version of her sister Dakota in I Am Sam (2001). She has grown up in front of the cameras, living through other experiences that she had not had time to experience in her real life. Moving forward in time. That is why it is not surprising that she, at 25 years old, coincides with the speech of a veteran like Meryl Streep speaking of the gift of empathy in a world that tends to ignore it.
“It is the heart of actors,” said Meryl when collecting her Princess of Asturias award; “I always try to have empathy regardless of what kind of character I'm playing,” says Elle, ambassador for Rabanne's Fame Parfum.
A casting director once told her that she had a “period” face and, in a way, she accepts it: “I'm very nostalgic.” Fan of antique dealers, of history, of the glamor of the fifties... Curious is the relationship of the Zetas with a concept that in principle would be foreign to them and in which they are interested as if it were the mirage of a future that they can't quite see clear.
The actress wanted to play Grace Kelly, like her admired Nicole Kidman, and has already stepped into her shoes for a jewelry campaign. Among her references, she also cites Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe.
The past as impulse. Elle Fanning is an expert in showing off the corset on screen, stripping it of rigidity and wearing it with ease and self-confidence. She wears it in the series The Great, where she will spend three seasons playing the Russian empress Catherine the Great in a comedic way and with a vision that is more irreverent and colloquial than historical to bring her closer to new generations.
“This is the longest I've played a character and she has meant a lot to me as I figure out who I want to be in this world. I have grown as a woman next to her,” she explains. He likes her that it didn't even cross her mind to be perfect. “I praise loudly and criticize quietly,” is one of the most remembered phrases of the empress. If the networks followed her advice, dealing with fame would be much easier, although the actress assures that she has managed to avoid the dark side of it. “A big wind blows, and that gives you imagination or a headache.” The phrase is also from Catalina and with a few drops of power it could define both networks and fame.
She dances on the plot thread that intersects career and life with hardly any doubts, like a seasoned juggler. She is not one of those who is afraid of risk. Yes, she has clear ideas and knows how to achieve her goals. Just a year ago she declared that she would love to debut in the theater and she just announced on her Instagram that she is about to debut on Broadway with Appropriate. Wish granted. It has been written that she believes in the zodiac – and in love at first sight, although she has been dumped with Max Minghella – and she must have the stars in her face.
More dreams: playing a really bad guy and an action “movie.” This last one touched him and he even auditioned for one of those franchises that break the box office, but it seems that they didn't give it to him because he didn't have enough followers on Instagram at that time. Today she has 6.4 million, so don't rule out seeing her in a blockbuster soon.
Fanning knows his profession and his world. That's why she controls projects as executive director, wants to direct one day and has a production company with her sister Dakota (they can share the screen for the first time in The Nighthingale). She knows that her voice matters. “Sometimes you have to get a little bit of Catalina's ego out and say: Listen to me!” She does it: in 2019, at age 21, she was the youngest jury member in history at the Cannes Film Festival.
Self-confident, curious, in love with fashion – she went to her first Met gala at the age of 13 – inveterate romantic… In permanent movement, like the metallic pieces of Rabanne dresses. “I express myself through clothes. I go through phases and my mood usually dictates what I wear,” she confesses. For her, her perfume “represents strength and elegance.” What does she like most about being a Frame Parfum ambassador? “I try to stand out from the crowd and being so allows me to express my individuality and my audacity,” he says.
