Elle Fanning Covers The Winter Issue Of L’OFFICIEL USA
Elle Fanning is on the cover of L’OFFICIEL USA. The young actress is on the cover of the magazine to promote the second season of her hit TV series, The Great. Highlights from her interview are below.
On filming her new series, The Girl from Plainville: “It’s been intense! It really could not be more different from The Great, which is dark too, but a satire, and a much lighter set. But I think I’ve always tried to do that, to surprise people with my choices and with the characters I play. It’s a challenge. In my family, it’s all sports backgrounds. Everyone in my family was an athlete. Everyone. My dad played professional baseball, my mom played tennis in college, and my grandfather was a quarterback in the NFL. I think that athleticism is in my blood, that how my family approaches life is very much from an athlete’s point of view. You have to put in the work and the dedication. I feel like when I’m teetering on ‘I’m so freaked out’ or ‘I’m so scared’ about something, that’s when I do my best. It almost feels like you’re pumping yourself up for a race before you do a scene; that’s the mindset. You’re like a racehorse and the gun goes off and you’re like, Okay, let’s do this! I thrive on that feeling.”
On the podcast she narrated One Click: “I’d never done a podcast before; I narrated it with Jessica Wapner, who wrote the initial January 2020 article [‘The Deadly Internet Diet Drug That Cooks People Alive,’ which was published in the Daily Beast]. I’m 23, and a lot of the victims who were preyed upon were around my age. And we’ve all experienced that awful feeling of comparing yourself to other people. Social media really is a weapon.”
On her dream roles: “I think playing real people, I haven’t done much, but now I’m getting a taste of it. I’m really enjoying emulating a person who we have videos of the way they talk and the way they move. I’m enticed by that. It’s a delicate balance…you don’t want to be a caricature, and you can’t worry if you don’t look exactly like them or sound exactly like them. You can’t really think about that; it has to be on your mind, but you have to let it go and just play the truth of it. I do dream about playing Grace Kelly. I have thought about that. I would have to be older though.”
You can check out even more from her interview here.
