No one, especially young actresses, is bullet-proof in Hollywood. Elle Fanning has shared a traumatic story about missing out on a major role at 16. Elle Fanning, who’s been acting since she was two and has a famous elder sister Dakota Fanning who’s also an actor, was a victim of Hollywood preying on the young.

While the ‘Super 8’ has come a long way, we are once again reminded of Hollywood’s rampant sexism and sexualization of child actors. She didn’t name the perpetrator, but thousand of such deviants continue to work in the film industry. The people who make movies are unfortunately not as picture-perfect as the movies they make.

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Elle Fanning Reveals ‘Disgusting’ Reason Behind Not Getting Road-Trip Comedy

During The Hollywood Reporter’s roundtable conversation, the ’20th Century Women’ actress talked about the “disgusting” reason she lost a major role in a road trip comedy. She recalled a terrible experience she faced while navigating her way as a child actor. While her team protested her from the bad news, she found out why she couldn’t book the part.

Elle Fanning confessed this to a room of other actresses for the time, ” 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. I didn’t hear from my agents because they wouldn’t tell me things like this – that filtration system is really important because there’s probably a lot more damaging comments that they filtered – but this one got to me. I was 16 years old, and a person said, ‘Oh, she didn’t get the father-daughter road trip comedy because she’s unf***able.’”

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Elle Fanning On Losing Roles Due To Lack Of Social Media Followers

Elle Fanning recently talked about social media’s role in landing a role. While appearing on the podcast ‘Happy Sad Confused,’ the 25-year-old actress told the host Josh Horowitz about losing parts in mainstream movies due to her low social media numbers despite having some great auditions.

Regardless, Elle Fanning has built a strong résumé over the years. She also made the leap to the OTT space with the Hulu series ‘The Great’ and the miniseries ‘The Girl From Plainview,’ winning an Emmy for the latter. She will be seen playing Sylvie Russo in the upcoming Bob Dylan biopic ‘A Complete Unknown.’

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