Dakota Fanning has some type phrases for her youthful self.
On Saturday, Sept. 21, the Perfect Couple star, 30, shared a sweet throwback photo of herself from when she was a 7-year-old baby actor, attending the premiere of her first characteristic movie, the 2001 drama I Am Sam, during which she starred alongside Sean Penn and Michelle Pfeiffer.
“i’m sam premiere 2001. all the time pondering of this tiny lady, and conserving her shut,” Fanning wrote within the caption of her Instagram publish, alongside a photograph of her youthful self carrying a yellow costume with a bow on the waist, white tights and black Mary Jane footwear.
I Am Sam adopted Penn’s character, a mentally disabled man elevating his daughter (Fanning) who fights to maintain custody of her. Fanning earned a number of accolades for her function within the movie, together with a Display Actors Guild Award nomination for excellent efficiency by a feminine actor in a supporting function and a Critics Selection Award win for finest younger actor/actress.
Fanning has beforehand been candid about her expertise being a Hollywood star at such a younger age. Again in June, she opened up to PEOPLE about what her recommendation for baby actors may be.
“So long as you like it, you are in the precise place,” she mentioned on the premiere of The Watchers, her thriller set within the forests of Eire. “Typically you are working in a chilly, moist forest, and in the event you can nonetheless have enjoyable there, then you definitely’re heading in the right direction.”
Additionally in June, the actress spoke to PEOPLE about one of many strangest fan encounters she had as a baby — and revealed how her mother, Hannah Joy Arrington, stepped in to assist her keep away from an uncomfortable scenario.
“After I was younger, someone requested me to signal their chest or abdomen,” she recalled. “My mother was like, ‘Oh, how about only a piece of paper?’ ”
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Fanning’s time as a younger star additionally got here with some good perks. In April, she instructed Elle that the “finest wrap reward” she had ever obtained was from one in all her most well-known costars, Kurt Russell.
“Kurt Russell gave me a horse,” she mentioned with fun, earlier than opening up in regards to the making of their 2005 film Dreamer, a couple of father-daughter duo who bond over serving to an injured race horse.
“We made a film about horses. Kurt is among the loveliest, most superb individuals,” she continued. “You undergo an expertise collectively, and I cherished working with him a lot, and we made a film about horses, and he gave me a horse.”
She added on the time that working with different main stars — together with Tom Cruise, Denzel Washington and Robert De Niro — was by no means intimidating for her as a child.
“As a result of I grew up accustomed to being round individuals who could be thought of ‘intimidating’ sort of, I believe it would’ve numbed that aspect of me a little bit,” Fanning instructed PEOPLE. “If you’re 8 years previous you are kind of simply attending to know an individual as an individual and never eager about the entire different stuff, you realize?”