Dakota Fanning is one of the most prominent child actors in Hollywood. At 15, she has already starred in 20 movies and have worked with many prominent actors such as Sean Penn, Michelle Pfeiffer, Tom Cruise and Denzel Washington. She is the youngest actor to be nominated in the Screen Actor Awards and is a force to reckon with in her craft. But as she takes in more grown-up roles, Dakota is showing that she is a child no more.

This fall, Dakota ventures into the dark side as he portrays her first evil/bad role and she is lovin it.

“My character is kind of evil and mean,” she says, laughing. “I have to have these red eyes which are kind of scary-looking and some really cool scenes. There’s one involving me and all the main cast, and all the other Italian vampires. I wasn’t required to do anything really physical but Jane really wants to get Bella, who just kills my character.” But only metaphorically, right? “Right,” says Fanning. “Jane wants to cause Bella pain so badly and that’s weird because I am really good friends with Kristen in real life now. To be mean to one another is strange, although her being scared of me was kind of cool.”

“That made reading the parts about Jane really fun when I knew it was going to be me,” she chirps. “I read all four books in a week and really enjoyed them. I think everyone will get something from the movie. I think these films are really for everyone – kids and adults alike, boys and girls …”

Though she maybe a newbie in the Twilight franchise, she is happy that the cast and crew were welcoming to her.

“It is getting a bit like a big family,” she says, grinning. “I’m in the second and the third films, and I’m now in the fourth film [Breaking Dawn], too. I am not in too much of it, just a little bit. I make my appearance there to scare Kristen’s character. We start on Eclipse very soon and I have never done that before, where I go back to a movie to do the sequel. When I first signed up I was nervous and didn’t know what to expect. The only person I had ever met from the cast was Kristen, very briefly, like twice, but honestly they were the nicest most welcoming people and I got right into it straight away. I’d never really been the new girl on set.”

However, Dakota is careful to to grow up too fast. She is taking life as a teenager and is taking it as the way it is.

“I feel like a teenager, not an adult at all, and I don’t think that I have grown up too fast,” says Fanning. “I’ve been called an old soul, but that’s not a bad thing. I think I’ve always been like that.” Fanning does already seem to have been around for a long time. Her big-screen breakthrough came eight years ago, in the 2001 Sean Penn and Michelle Pfeiffer movie I Am Sam. “I remember a long time ago that someone wrote an article saying that Sean Penn gave me a lizard and then it ran away and he bought me another one,” she recalls, laughing. “That was very odd. Why would Sean Penn buy me a lizard?”

“Honestly,” she repeats for emphasis, “I don’t think I am growing up too fast at all.”

Next stop for Dakota is the 1970’s biopic of the iconic 70’s girl band, The Runaways,where she got to work with Kristen Stewart again.

“I slept a little after we finished last night,” she says, “and then I needed to be up early today to do this interview. It was cool, though. Last night Joan Jett gave me a scarf and I love it. To me, something like that is important because it’s a gift from someone I really look up to.”

Fanning clearly looks up to Stewart, too. “We have been working together for the last six and half weeks and we have been together from morning till night on The Runaways,” she says. “When you’re together like that you can’t help but get close with someone, and Kirsten is just the coolest person ever.

“When I watch her work, I see how much she cares about the part she is playing and how much she wants to get it right. With this film there was so much to live up to as they [The Runaways] were such incredible people in real life. Clearly we’re never going to be as amazing as they were,” says Fanning, “but you try your best and Kristen was putting everything she could into it. I think it’s brilliant work.”

To read more of her interview, click on the link above to head over to The Scotland Herald.

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