Dakota Fanning is featured on the cover of the latest edition of The Edit, and she has a lot to say in the wide-ranging interview, including how she feels ab0ut being judge by people know don’t know her.
“It’s the thing I hate. Hate!” she declares. “No one knows you better than you know yourself. And you have someone going, ‘I don’t think you’re like that…’ or, ‘I don’t think you’re able to do that…’ I’m sorry? We’ve never met. You have no idea about me. What are you talking about?”
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She also discusses why she feels uncomfortable playing the Hollywood “game” when she encounters other celebs at parties. “[At] those parties there’s this culture. ‘Oh! You’re an actor? So am I! So we’re friends!’ Well, maybe we could be friends, but we’re certainly not yet,” she says. “We don’t even know each other! I would rather be with my real friends at a dive bar on a Friday night, you know?”
Another topic of conversation is her relationship with her actress sister Elle, and she says it’s disheartening that people hope to see sibling rivalry. “People unfortunately love to see conflict. And if it’s between family? Between sisters? Even better,” she says. “The assumption that we’re really competitive, that people even ask that, is horrible. It’s implied our family [is] torn apart by jealousy. It shows people don’t pay attention to who we are, just surface stuff: sisters, blond, blue-eyed, kind of the same age… We don’t even think we look alike! Our personalities are worlds apart; we both feel that, we both know that. Anyone who knows us knows that.”
You can read more with Dakota Fanning in the latest edition of The Edit.
