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Elle Fanning got candid about her experiences in Hollywood as a young actress.
When she was just a teen, aged 16, she was turned down from a role because she was deemed "unf***able" to star in the "father-daughter road trip comedy."
“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 started during the Hollywood Reporter’s Comedy Actress Roundtable.
She went on to recall a "person" saying: "Oh, she didn’t get the father-daughter road trip comedy because she’s unf***able.”
Elle shared the shocking moment (Getty Images for L'Oréal)“It’s so disgusting," Elle added. "And I can laugh at it now, like, ‘What a disgusting pig!'”
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She thanked her team for creating a "filtration system" that shielded her from as many "damaging comments" when she was at such an impressionable age.
“I was very protected,” Elle said. “I have an amazing manager and agent who’ve been with me since I was 8 or 9, same people.”
Elle was "very protected" by her team (ellefanning/Instagram)
She was "confident" growing up (Corbis via Getty Images)And despite being "immensely confident" in herself, she went on to admit: “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?'”
“I don’t feel like it damaged me,” Elle added, “but it definitely made me very aware of myself.”
It comes after the younger sister of fellow actress Dakota Fanning expressed the importance of finally coming into your own.
Elle shared the importance of having a voice (Getty)"These days, I feel like my voice matters,” she told Harper's Bazaar. "For a while, I’d be like, ‘Oh well, I’m young, people don’t necessarily want to listen to me, they probably know more anyway.
“But there comes a point when you register that you’ve been doing this for 20 years.”
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