Add Elle Fanning to the list of young stars who survived teenage hypersexualization within the media.
“The Great” star, 25, got candid through the Hollywood Reporter’s Comedy Actress Roundtable interview recently, recalling how she lost out on a job because she wasn’t sexually attractive enough to casting directors when she was just 16 years old — for a “father-daughter road trip comedy,” no less.
Fanning explained how her team needed to “filter” explicit comments that folks had said of her audition.
“I used to be 16 years old, and an individual said, ‘Oh, she didn’t get the father-daughter road trip comedy because she’s unf – – kable.’”
“It [was] so disgusting. And I can laugh at it now, like, ‘What a disgusting pig!’” the actress said of her response on the time.
Fanning continued, “I used to be all the time immensely confident, but after all, you’re growing up in the general public eye, and it’s weird.”
“I’ll have a look at paparazzi photos from after I was 12 and think, ‘Is that a very good thing to see such a mirror of yourself at that age?’ I don’t feel prefer it damaged me, nevertheless it definitely made me very aware of myself,” she lamented.
The previous child star is the younger sister of actress Dakota Fanning, 29 — each of whom have matured into young women under the close watch of the general public eye.
Fanning also disclosed that she felt “very protected” as a child in Tinseltown, because of a powerful team.
“I even have an incredible manager and agent who’ve been with me since I used to be 8 or 9, same people,” she gushed.
The Post has reached out to Fanning’s camp for comment.