Why is dakota fanning a good actress

She also began to get knocked back a fair amount and here, perhaps, her response was unusual. I had short hair and was different looking. Fanning kept getting work, and her mother kept pushing back their flight home; this went on until she was cast in I Am Sam a year later. The unsavoury aspect of child actors holding down adult jobs, with adult pressures and responsibilities, is one that Fanning seems, blithely, to have sailed through unscathed.

One advantage of being so young when she started is that there was almost no sense of before and after, no dislocation. My mum was with me. I was visiting my cool aunt. And I was enjoying what I was doing. A year to the day after she arrived in LA, she was cast in I Am Sam, the story of a man with learning disabilities Penn fighting for custody of his daughter, with Michelle Pfeiffer in the role of his lawyer.

It was a short hop from there to Fanning being cast by Steven Spielberg in the sci-fi mini-series Taken , then as the younger version of Reese Witherspoon in Sweet Home Alabama and, within another year, to starring in movies opposite Robert de Niro and Denzel Washington.

She puts her ability to endure this kind of pressure down to the way she was raised, and specifically to her mother. Manners were important and so was respect for adults: that was taught to me from birth. And that became a sense of professionalism, as I started to understand the decorum of movie sets: have respect for the people who are trying to help you.

Fanning was home-schooled until she was 13, and during those early years most of the people she hung out with were adults. She retains a slight formality of speech that is either a stylistic quirk or, as it occasionally seems, a hangover from the years she spent playing up to adult expectations. I see everyone the same. I think it was such a special way to grow up. Summary : Newlyweds Olivia Fanning and Luke Theo James find their happy lives encircled by the possessive reach of philanthropist Franny Watts Richard Gere , a mysterious man who feels responsible for the deaths of Olivia's parents.

Summary : "The Last of Robin Hood" is a drama based on the true story of the affair between Hollywood legend Errol Flynn Kevin Kline and aspiring actress Beverly Aadland Fanning , and the wave of negative publicity that their relationship unleashed.

Fanning appeared in the film as Jane, a high-ranking vampire of the Volturi coven whose reign determines the future of Bella and Edward's relationship. Her prime suspects in the abduction are local teens Ronnie Fanning and Alice Danielle Macdonald who were just released from juvenile detention. Summary : In the drama "I Am Sam," a sweet father Sean Penn who has an intellectual disability risks losing his daughter Lucy Fanning to a social worker who believes that he doesn't have the capacity to raise a child.

But high-powered attorney Rita Harrison Michelle Pfeiffer soon takes his case in an effort to reunite the family. In London, she makes it her mission to help fellow immigrants reunite with their families. However, it is later revealed that her work is not purely altruistic because she is really looking to reconnect with her lost love Yahya Abdul-Mateen II.

Summary : In "Brimstone," frontier woman Liz Fanning suddenly becomes a fugitive after she's pinned for a crime she didn't commit. On the run from the vengeful Reverend Guy Pearce , Liz does whatever it takes to stay alive. Summary : Based on the book "Winged Creatures" by Roy Freirich, "Fragments" centers around a group of strangers whose lives are thrown together after they witness a horrifying murder in a diner. Summary : In the final installment of the "Twilight Saga," Bella Stewart and Edward Pattinson fight to protect their new family from the towering threat of the Volturi coven, which includes cold-hearted Jane Fanning.

She resolves to make a bucket list of everything she wants to do before she dies, but doesn't factor falling in love with her new neighbor Adam Jeremy Irvine.

Summary : In the coming-of-age story "Please Stand By," Wendy Fanning is a young autistic woman who runs away from home and travels across the country to enter her page "Star Trek"-inspired script into a Hollywood writing competition. Immersed in a world of beekeeping and strong women, Lily comes to learn more about her late mother's past. Fanning makes a short appearance as Penelope Stern, the new "it" girl in Hollywood who is making Daphne jealous.

Summary : The documentary "In the Realms of the Unreal," narrated by Fanning, explores the complex life of artist and missionary Henry Darger through the eyes of the people who knew him.

Summary : Based on the classic story by H. Wells , the science-fiction film "War of the Worlds" centers on Ray Ferrier's Tom Cruise desperate attempts to keep his children Rachel Fanning and Robbie Justin Chatwin safe in the midst of a global alien invasion. Summary : In the drama "Nine Lives," the lives of different women come together in nine episodic chapters, including the story of grief-stricken Maggie Glenn Close and her daughter Maria Fanning.

Summary : Based on the beloved children's book by E. Sent to a farm down the road, Wilbur worries about his limited lifespan until a friendly spider named Charlotte voiced by Julia Roberts offers to help.

Summary : In the drama "Night Moves," three radical environmentalists — Harmon Peter Sarsgaard , Dena Fanning , and Josh Jesse Eisenberg — plan to blow up a hydroelectric dam to further their political agenda.

Summary : In the animated film "Coraline," Coraline Fanning moves to a new town with her family and discovers a secret door in their house that leads into a new dimension. But when her alternate life turns out to be more of a nightmare than a dream, Coraline races to find a way back to normalcy. Meeting Andrew [Renzi]. I just connected with him right away and I really loved the script.

I thought it was a beautifully written story, and I loved the character. And also, again, working with Richard Gere is really exciting. But I think most of all, Andrew. Andrew is really special and really talented. Getting to work with him was such a pleasure, and getting to know him was really amazing. We have a great friendship.

I was so excited to come to work every day. I think this role is such an amazing role for him and so I was just really, honestly excited to see what he was going to do every day and what he was going to say and how he was going to bring some of his eccentricities to life. I was really inspired by him each day. And he definitely does that. Was there any actors in your career, growing up, that really turned a corner for you in some way? Or taught you an invaluable lesson? I really learned how to behave on-set through the people that I worked with, like the importance of being on time and the importance of being professional.

Little things like that. Working with Richard, the amount of himself that he gives to his character is really inspiring. And Robert De Niro , when I worked with him, he would always be there, off-camera. He was also really giving.