Dakota Fanning says she was asked “super-inappropriate questions” as child actor

The star appeared alongside Denzel Washington and Tom Cruise when she was younger Dakota Fanning has spoken about her time as a child actor and recalled how she was often asked “super-inappropriate questions”. Read More: Will there be ‘The Perfect Couple’ season two? The star appeared alongside the likes of Denzel Washington in the 2004 film Man On Fire and Tom Cruise in Steven Spielberg ‘s version of War Of The Worlds a year later. She started acting on television when she was just six-years-old.

Speaking in a new interview with The Cut , Fanning who is now 30, recalled the uncomfortable nature of being a child actor during interviews. She said that the tabloid obsession with the likes of Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan and the impact it had on their careers was “deeply shoved down my throat.” “In interviews at a young age, I remember journalists asking me, ‘How are you avoiding becoming a tabloid girl?’ People would ask super-inappropriate questions,” she said.

“I was in an interview as a child and somebody asked, ‘How could you possibly have any friends?’ It’s like, huh?” Dakota Fanning and Tom Cruise at the ‘War of the Worlds’ New York premiere in 2005 CREDIT: Lawrence Lucier/FilmMagic Fanning continued: “I have a lot of compassion for people who have been made into examples. If society and the media hadn’t played their part, who knows?” “I don’t think that it’s necessarily connected a 100 per cent to being in this business.