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Awards Chatter

Elle Fanning - 'The Girl from Plainville' & The Great'

Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

Tv & Film, Film Interviews

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

The former child star, who is now 24 and garnering career-best notices for her work on a Hulu comedy series and limited series, reflects on growing up in the biz alongside Dakota, when she took ownership of her career and what led her to projects on the small screen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 438th episode of Awards Chattered, the Hollywood Reporter's Awards podcast.

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I'm the host Scott Feinberg and my guest today is a gifted actress who is already a widely respected veteran at the age of just 24.

0:53.0

She is by four years the younger of two sisters who both made tremendous impressions as child performers, on route to impressive careers as young adults, with no major bumps along the way.

1:05.0

Of her work on the big screen she is perhaps best known for 2010s somewhere and 2018's The Beguiled, both directed by Sophia Coppola.

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But she has also starred in films big and small, under the direction of, among others, Francis Ford Coppola, J.J. Abrams, Alejandro Gonzalez-Iñari II, David Fincher, Cameron Crow, Sally Potter, J. Roach, Mike Mills, Nicholas Winding Reffen, John Cameron Mitchell, Tony Scott, Terry George, Ben Affleck, and Woody Allen.

1:34.0

This year, she played substantial parts on and executive produced two TV programs, both for Hulu,

1:42.0

and both of which could bring her Emmy nominations to go with four prior Critics Choice Award Noms, two Golden Globe Award Noms, one Spirit Award Noms, and one Sago Award Noms.

1:53.0

The first is The Great, a comedy series on which she portrays the young Catherine The Great, who arrived at the Russian Court of Emperor Peter III with a twinkly-eyed vision of life as his wife, mother of his heir, and reformer of an empire, only to get a rude awakening.

2:09.0

And the second is The Girl from Plainville, a limited series on which he portrays Michelle Carter, a high school student in Massachusetts who encouraged her own boyfriend to kill himself, and then, after he did so in 2014, wound up on trial for involuntary manslaughter.

2:25.0

I'm talking, of course, about L-fanning.

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Over the course of our conversation, Fanning reflected on the series of events involving her older sister Dakota, which led their family to relocate to California and her to get her first acting gigs,

2:40.0

how Phoebe in Wonderland, a 2009 film, as well as the aforementioned somewhere and The Great, each marked major milestones in her development,

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