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Dakota Fanning Answers Your Emails
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Editor's Note: We are pleased to welcome actress Dakota Fanning
to the Suck My Blog, where she'll be posting from time to time. She is
very talented, and you can see her in such films as Charlotte's Web and
her upcoming controversial movie Hounddog. You can check out her main blog right here.
To: Dakota Fanning
From: Bojo Smith
Subject: couple questions
i
have a question for you. i have 2 young daughters ones 8 and ones 12
and they want to get into acting and become movie stars...can you help
me out with any ideas on where i would start out at? i would very much
appreciate it and so would they. please get back to me if you can help
me thank you very much
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Thanks for the email, Bojo (that's such a great name! were your parents part of a circus?)
When I'm not making movies, people always stop me in the street and ask, "Dakota, how does my daughter get into acting?"
Well,
there is no wrong or right answers! But what I've found is that helps a
young actress most is that she have a good mother/manager, publicists
that know what they're doing, but most of all you have a good sense of
what works and what doesn't when it comes to chosing roles.
You
see, many people can act. It's not that hard. But to chose a role that
you were made to play...that takes an eye...that takes talent.
Take my new movie Hounddog, the film where I get brutally raped.
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I'll
admit it, when I first read the script I had no idea what was going on.
Some dancer named Elvis played some part of it. It takes place a long
time ago. There are no dogs in it, which I found weird consider the
title of the movie. But when my mother told me that this was a role
that just have to take -- THAT I COULD WIN AN OSCAR IF I TOOK THE ROLE
-- well, what do you say to that? You take the role. And when I found
out that my character would get brutally raped, I didn't flinch once.
If I have to get fake-raped to win an Oscar, I'm going to do it.
Any 12-year-old worth his or her salt would do the same. And if not, they should get out of this f**king town.
*sigh*
Okay,
now where do you start out if you want to act? Well Hollywood of
course! This place is fantastic for making movies! I say sell all of
your belongings right now and come here fast! Hang out at the Saddle
Ranch Bar & Grill on the Sunset Strip and say hello to the first
man wearing a pinstripe suit you see. For some reason you might ditch
your kids for a few hours like my mom did and go to the neighboring
hotel to work out the business deals, but this is just standard
practice in LA. People are always staying at hotels when they have
homes on minutes away! (they're also going to the bathroom --
alot...Hollywood is so WEIRD!)
Well, I hope this helps. Keep in touch.
Read more of Dakota's musings at her blog:
http://www.liquidgeneration.com/blog/dakota/blogger.html
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on Tue: 06-02-07 06:48 PM CDT |
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