Elle Fanning Says She Was Turned Down From A Movie Role At 16 For Being Unfuckable

Actress Elle Fanning Reveals She Was Turned Down From A Movie Role At 16 For Being Unfuckable

Actress Elle Fanning appears to be on the list of young stars who survived teenage hypersexualization in the media.

“The Great” star, 25, got candid during the Hollywood Reporter’s Comedy Actress Roundtable interview recently.

She recalled how she lost out on a role because she wasn’t sexually attractive enough to casting directors when she was just 16 years old — for a “father-daughter road trip comedy,” no less.

 

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Fanning explained how her team had to “filter” explicit comments that people had said of her audition.

“I was 16 years old, and a person said, ‘Oh, she didn’t get the father-daughter road trip comedy because she’s unf – – kable.’” “It [was] so disgusting. And I can laugh at it now, like, ‘What a disgusting pig!’” the actress said of her reaction at the time.

Fanning also disclosed that she felt “very protected” as a kid in Tinseltown, thanks to a strong team.

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