LET ME SHOW YOU HOW I DO IT: Elle Fanning

Suit: Marc Jacobs; Blouse: Dolce&Gabbana

"I WAS MARILYN MONROE

FOR HALLOWEEN WHEN I WAS 7. . .

I DID THE MAKEUP AND THE MOLE.

I DID ALL THE POSES WITH BLOWING KISSES

AND ALL THAT. "—ELLE FANNING

Despite the fact that she's missing five teeth, actress Elle Fanning has plenty of reasons to smile. Like her big sister, Dakota, Fanning is, at the ripe old age of 12, already a grizzled veteran, with nearly a decade of work under her belt, and has a heavyweight résumé of decidedly grown-up films that includes I Am Sam (2001), The Door in the Floor (2004), Babel (2006), Reservation Road (2007), and The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008). Now, though, Fanning is about to enter another phase in her career with the release of Sofia Coppola's new film Somewhere, in which she stars, alongside Stephen Dorff, as the daughter
of a hard-partying Hollywood actor who lives in a suite at the Chateau Marmont hotel and is stumbling, perpetually bleary-eyed, through both his work and his life. For all of her youth, Fanning's performance in film is a mature one, as she struggles to reconcile her parents' stunted adulthoods with the premature onset of her own.

LAUREN TABACH-BAN

Interview Magazine