Actress Elle Fanning Says ‘Disgusting Pig’ Gave Vulgar Reason Why She Lost Movie Role At 16

Actress Elle Fanning recalled getting passed over for a movie role when she was younger, saying the reason for the rejection was her being “unf***able” when she was a teenager.

“I’ve never told this story, but I was trying out for a movie. I didn’t get it. I don’t even think they ever made it, but it was a father-daughter road trip comedy,” the 25-year-old star said during the Hollywood Reporter’s Comedy Actress Roundtable, per The Hollywood Reporter. 

Fanning said she was 16 when someone said, “Oh, she didn’t get the father-daughter road trip comedy because she’s unf***able.”

“It’s so disgusting. And I can laugh at it now, like, ‘What a disgusting pig!’” the “Maleficent” star said. Fanning said the adults surrounding her created a “filtration system” so she never heard any “damaging comments” as a child actor.

“I was very protected,” she admitted. “I have an amazing manager and agent who’ve been with me since I was 8 or 9, same people.”

The sister of fellow actress Dakota Fanning further reflected on growing up under the spotlight of Hollywood.

“You’re growing up in the public eye, and it’s weird,” she said. “I’ll look at paparazzi photos from when I was 12 and think, ‘Is that a good thing to see such a mirror of yourself at that age?’”

Fanning said she’s been trying to revise her image lately, which includes taking on darker, more adult roles compared to what she’s played before. 

“I was Sleeping Beauty in ‘Maleficent,’ and you can’t get sweeter or pinker or blonder, and I’m cool with that, but for a while I was most known for being either a child actor or a Disney princess,” the actress said during the roundtable discussion. 

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“That’s a box that I feel like, a couple of years ago, I really was trying to shatter. I don’t even know what people thought, but I thought, ‘This is all they think of for me.’ ‘The Great,’ again, it’s like a blond royal, but it’s so turned on its head because it’s raunchy and violent and we’re saying the C-word every other word.”