Elle Fanning revealed that she lost a role when she was a teenager (Picture: WireImage)
Elle Fanning has opened up about the darker side of Hollywood, revealing that she was once rejected from a role as a teenager because she was deemed ‘unf**kable’.
The actress started out in Hollywood when she was just three years old, sharing the screen with her older sister, Dakota Fanning, in 2001 flick I Am Sam.
The 25-year-old has barely stopped since then, commanding roles in The Great, Maleficent, All the Bright Places and Super 8.
Speaking about her career in the Hollywood Reporter’s comedy actress roundtable alongside colleagues including Jenna Ortega, Sheryl Lee Ralph and Natasha Lyonne, Elle revealed that she once heard shocking feedback about herself when she was a teenager, after losing out on an unnamed role.
‘I was very protected, I have an amazing manager and agent who’ve been with me since I was 8 or 9, same people,’ she told her colleagues. ‘I’ve never told this story, but 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.
Elle took part in a comedy actress roundtable (Picture: Getty)
‘I was 16 years old, and a person said, “Oh, she didn’t get the father-daughter road trip comedy because she’s unf**kable.”
‘It’s so disgusting. And I can laugh at it now, like, “What a disgusting pig!”’
Although the remained tight-lipped over the film in question, Elle added: ‘I was always immensely confident, but of course you’re growing up in the public eye, and it’s weird. I’ll look at paparazzi photos from when I was 12 and think, “Is that a good thing to see such a mirror of yourself at that age?” I don’t feel like it damaged me, but it definitely made me very aware of myself.’
Elle previously revealed she lost a role because of her Instagram following (Picture: WireImage)
This isn’t the first time that the Dirty Sexy Money star has made headlines over her time in the spotlight – just last month, she appeared on the Happy Sad Confused podcast and confessed that another part slipped out of her grasp because of the size of her Instagram following.
‘I didn’t get a part once for something big,’ she told the host without naming the project.
‘It might not have just been this reason, but this was the feedback that I heard – it was because I didn’t have enough Instagram followers at the time.
‘That was a little like… That I firmly don’t believe in, ever not getting a part. It was for a bigger thing, a franchise-y thing.
‘I would not say no to those things, but I would have to have a meeting and really talk and see what it is.’
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