Dakota Fanning has been acting almost her entire life, scoring her first SAG nomination at 8 years old.<\/b>
\nDakota Fanning has been acting almost her entire life, scoring her first SAG nomination at eight years old and growing up in front of the camera. A childhood in the spotlight has brought plenty of queries about if she wished she had experienced a more traditional upbringing or missed out on being a kid, which she admits are questions that bother her.
During a recent conversation with Freddie Highmore for Variety \u2019s \u201c Actors on Actors,\u201d presented by Shutterstock, Fanning said with those kind of questions, \u201cI feel like I have to defend my life, and then it\u2019s like when you hear someone like overly defending you\u2019re like, \u2018Oh they must be overcompensating for something.\u2019 So you\u2019re walking this line of defending yourself, but not too much, because I don\u2019t have anything to defend.\u201d
\u201c The Alienist \u201d star added, \u201cWhen I look back and I think of the experiences being an actor has brought me, I just don\u2019t know a lot of other people our age who have been to the places we\u2019ve been and met all different kinds of people and the friendships. It\u2019s added so much to my life and it does kind of hurt me a little bit when people try and somehow turn it into a negative and I don\u2019t like it.\u201d
Now 24, Fanning began her professional acting career at five years old, and by seven had her first starring role opposite Sean Penn in 2001\u2019s \u201cI Am Sam.\u201d
Highmore, who also started his career as a child actor, agreed, saying, \u201cacting for me just added something onto my childhood, as opposed to thinking it was taking me away from the childhood I was meant to have.\u201d
The Emmy Award-winning \u201c Actors on Actors \u201d series will air in two episodes on PBS SoCal KOCE, the first on June 19 at 7 p.m. and the second on June 21 at 7 p.m. Both episodes will stream on pbssocal.org following their premieres.
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