Dakota & Elle Fanning Take Lie Detector Tests

Vanity Fair

The Fanning sisters take Vanity Fair's infamous lie detector test. Does Dakota think their mom was more strict with her than with Elle? Would Elle leave her boyfriend for Jack Black? Has Dakota ever secretly practiced her spirit tunnel moves for when she gets invited to The Jennifer Hudson Show? Would Elle ever do a reality TV show alongside her sister?   Director: Funmi Sunmonu Director of Photography: AJ Young Editor: Alex Mechanik Talent: Dakota Fanning; Elle Fanning Voiceover: Emebeit Beyene Producer: Emebeit Beyene Line Producer: Natasha Soto-Albors Production Manager: Andressa Pelachi Associate Project Manager: Elizabeth Hymes Camera Operator: Lucas Vilicich Audio Engineer: Justin Fox Production Assistant: Hollie Ortiz; Hope Millner; Aaron Morales Post Production Supervisor: Christian Olguin Supervising Editor: Eduardo Araujo Assistant Editor: Billy Ward

Transcript

00:00You and I are both in a group chat dedicated to how hot this man is.

00:06Hottest man I've ever seen in my life.

00:09Sex on legs, baby.

00:12Hallelujah.

00:13Would you leave your boyfriend if Jack Black declared his love for you?

00:21Dakota, Elle, we've brought you here today to take a lie detector test.

00:27One of you will be hooked up to the machine.

00:30While the other will ask the questions.

00:32And then you'll switch.

00:34This is Stephanie, our polygraph operator.

00:37Hi Stephanie.

00:40Who wants to be in the hot seat first?

00:43Well, Dakota was born first, so I think she should go first.

00:47I'll go first.

00:48That's good.

00:49I'm happy to.

00:50Okay.

00:51Yeah, you're not.

00:52She's been saying that she was going to beat the test all day, so.

00:55She's said this her whole life, actually.

00:57That she's like, if I ever did a lie detector test, I could beat it, so.

01:02We'll see.

01:05Put this around your chest.

01:06Sounds good.

01:07Raise her arms up for me.

01:09You are under arrest.

01:11Oh, you're really strapped in there.

01:21To begin, I'm going to ask you a few questions to calibrate the machine.

01:26Okay.

01:26Is your full name Hannah Dakota Fanning?

01:30Yes.

01:30Is the person sitting across from you your little sister?

01:39Yes.

01:40Are you about to take a polygraph test?

01:42Yes.

01:43Are you nervous?

01:45I just started to get a little nervous, but I think I'm okay.

01:49Stephanie.

01:52Are we calibrated?

01:53The machine has been calibrated.

01:55Okay, ready to go.

01:56All right.

02:00First question.

02:01Dakota, last year, well, you say this all the time.

02:06I can attest to, but you said that you think you're a better liar than me and can always tell when I'm not telling the truth.

02:15Do you still think that's the case?

02:16Yes, I do.

02:17That is the truth.

02:21That is the...

02:22I knew it.

02:25Does being a good actress just mean you're a good liar?

02:30No.

02:31That is the truth.

02:33When we were little, we would put on skits, including one where you pretended to give birth to me.

02:39Correct.

02:39Yep, I would come out of your back crying like a baby.

02:44Back, I mean.

02:45Yeah, I would be under your back and then I would come through.

02:47You'd be under the love sack.

02:48Looking back, do you think our mom should have been more concerned by this behavior?

02:53No, not at all.

02:55We were preparing for...

02:57Roles of a lifetime.

02:58Roles of a lifetime.

02:59Yeah.

03:00She's telling the truth.

03:01Mm-hmm.

03:02Do you think we should reprise these roles someday?

03:05I do not.

03:06Yeah.

03:06So I do not need to give birth to you, no.

03:09Do you think this was the weirdest skit we did as kids?

03:12No.

03:16Is that true?

03:17That is true.

03:19I can think of a couple.

03:20Me too.

03:20Yeah.

03:22Not to be sad.

03:23No, I'm not saying no.

03:24Do you identify with stereotypical older sister behavior?

03:29Yes.

03:30So, I agree.

03:32I also agree.

03:33So, you would say you're naturally bossy?

03:38Yes.

03:39Truth.

03:40Truth.

03:40And I can attest, truth.

03:45Do you think our mom was more strict with you than she was with me?

03:49Yes.

03:51What is that?

03:51That is also the truth.

03:54It's your own truth.

03:56Well, isn't that what this is?

04:00Yes.

04:00You know, this is my truth.

04:01It's about your truth.

04:02Yeah.

04:05Okay.

04:06So, your character in Twilight, Jane, is a vampire who is able to create sensations of pain.

04:12Do you think that's an adequate metaphor for being an older sister?

04:16No.

04:16I wasn't like that with you.

04:19That is a lie.

04:20We got her.

04:26Elle turned into me.

04:28So, do you think you were a bully to me when we were kids?

04:31Not at all.

04:33No.

04:34Stephanie?

04:35The machine is picking up some deception.

04:38I was maybe a bully in, like, the mind game way.

04:51Yeah, manipulator.

04:52But you were physical.

04:54Yes.

04:56Pinching and, like, fighting.

04:58Hitting.

04:59Yes.

04:59Yeah.

05:00But you would mess with my mind.

05:01But I would definitely mess with your mind.

05:02Yeah.

05:02So, it depends on what you...

05:04Say I'm adopted, even though we literally look the same.

05:09So.

05:10Psychological bully, not a physical bully.

05:13Okay.

05:13That was the truth.

05:14That's the truth.

05:16Be honest.

05:17Did you ever get sick of playing a kidnapped child when you were younger?

05:21No.

05:23Inconclusive.

05:28Inconclusive.

05:29Some days you were just, you were over it.

05:32Well, I was trying to think.

05:33It wasn't, to me, it doesn't feel like that many times.

05:36But maybe it was more times than I'm...

05:38Trapped.

05:39Remembering.

05:39Oh, yeah.

05:39Man on fire.

05:40Well, yeah.

05:42Taken.

05:42I don't know.

05:43It's in the title.

05:44True.

05:45Yeah.

05:46Mm-hmm.

05:47I was in an episode of The Practice where I was kidnapped.

05:50Do you think you should only get to play kidnappers now that you're an adult to even the scales?

05:56I'd play a kidnapper.

05:57I don't think that I should only, but, yeah.

06:00This is a little kidnapping.

06:01There you go.

06:02Yeah, sure, sure.

06:03You think you should only play kidnappers?

06:05Not only.

06:06That's what I'm saying.

06:07Not only.

06:07So, no.

06:08So, no.

06:09Yeah.

06:09Truth.

06:10Truth.

06:12Do you ever have real fear that you'd be kidnapped as a child after all of these rules?

06:17No.

06:19That is the truth.

06:20What about being swept away on a whimsical adventure with...

06:23It has a word here that I can't pronounce, but you'd probably know how to pronounce it.

06:29Keep that in the video.

06:32Jesus.

06:33An anthropomorphized cat.

06:37Do you even know what that means?

06:39Anthropomorphized.

06:40Oh, God.

06:40Screw you.

06:41So, okay.

06:42So, that's the question.

06:45Go back.

06:46I missed that one.

06:47What about being swept away on a whimsical adventure with...

06:50Say the cat in the hat.

06:51Just say the cat in the hat.

06:52With an anthropomorphized cat.

06:55Still no.

06:56Still no.

06:57Did I get sick of it?

07:00What was the...

07:00What is the question?

07:01It just says, what about being swept away?

07:03So, basically, did you have a...

07:05Do you have a...

07:06Did you have a fear of being swept away?

07:08No.

07:09No fear.

07:09No.

07:10She's telling the truth.

07:12You starred in The Secret Life of Bees with this woman.

07:16Yes, Jennifer.

07:17Has she invited you on her talk show yet?

07:21She has not.

07:23That is the truth.

07:24But were you real, have you practiced what moves you would do in her spirit tunnel?

07:29I am terrified of the spirit tunnel.

07:34I am scared to be in the spirit tunnel.

07:37So, no, I have not practiced the moves of the spirit tunnel.

07:40Do you feel a little bad that her employees have to invent a new song and dance every day for their guests?

07:45I don't...

07:46No.

07:47You don't feel bad?

07:48No.

07:48They like it.

07:50What is...

07:51She's telling the truth.

07:53Clearly.

07:53They love it.

07:55Okay.

07:56They love it.

07:57Okay.

07:57You're probably the only person to give an acceptance speech while being hoisted by the armpits by Orlando Bloom.

08:04Yes.

08:05There we are.

08:07I mean...

08:08You thanked some really funny people in that speech.

08:12Everyone in the history of the world.

08:13In the history of the world you thanked in that speech.

08:15Yes.

08:16Have you ever tried to lift him now that you're both adults?

08:19No.

08:21She's telling the truth.

08:22How often are you faking that you remember people in the industry from when you were a kid?

08:29Um, less often than one might think.

08:32Yes or no.

08:32Hell.

08:34Less often than you might think.

08:36Yeah, I guess that's a little...

08:38That's not really a yes or no question.

08:39How often are you faking that you remember people in the industry from when you were a kid?

08:42Less often than you think.

08:45Okay.

08:45So...

08:46You can tell if I'm telling the truth.

08:48I wasn't detecting any deception.

08:50Yeah.

08:50Okay.

08:50It doesn't have to be yes or no.

08:52Less often than you think.

08:52Only.

08:55Do people still say to you, I remember you when you were this big?

08:59Yes.

09:00Tell the truth.

09:01Is that annoying?

09:02Sometimes, yes.

09:04That is the truth.

09:05I think...

09:06That's universal, you know.

09:09I think everybody gets annoyed by that sometimes.

09:11If mom was here and knew that you were strapped to a lie detector, what do you think she would ask you?

09:20Do you have any tattoos?

09:22I mean, she knows you don't.

09:23I don't have any tattoos.

09:24I know.

09:25Probably just question me in general.

09:30I can't think of anything specific.

09:32I know.

09:32I can't really either.

09:34Have you ever lied to me?

09:36You'd be like, yes.

09:36Yeah, exactly.

09:38Probably.

09:39Yeah.

09:39You'd be like, oh, my God.

09:41Okay.

09:42Okay, that's the end.

09:43Oh!

09:44Did you lie at any point during this interview and we didn't catch you?

09:48No, I actually didn't.

09:50You did lie once where we caught you.

09:52I didn't mean to.

09:53What?

09:54Was there any question you were afraid I was going to ask?

09:58No.

10:00Okay.

10:01Done?

10:02Done.

10:02All right.

10:05Okay.

10:09Okay, here we go.

10:13L, I'm going to ask you a few questions to calibrate the lie detector.

10:17Okay.

10:18Is your full name Mary L. Fanning?

10:21Yes.

10:21Is the person sitting across from you your big sister?

10:25Yes.

10:26Are you nervous?

10:27Yes.

10:30Are we good to go, Stephanie?

10:32The machine has been calibrated.

10:34Okay, here we go.

10:36You auditioned to be on Friends and didn't get the part, but I did.

10:41It was different parts.

10:43Okay.

10:43Yeah.

10:44You then refused to watch it.

10:48Have you still not watched Friends out of spite?

10:51No, I've watched Friends now.

10:54Okay.

10:56Inconclusive.

10:56What?

10:57What?

10:57I've seen every episode.

11:00What about, what about, have you seen the episode that I'm on?

11:03Yes.

11:03Oh.

11:04It's towards the end.

11:05Stephanie?

11:06Actually, it looks like she's telling the truth.

11:07Okay.

11:08My heart's being so fast.

11:09Um, do you ever not watch my projects because you wish you were in them?

11:14No.

11:16That is the truth.

11:18So you've seen everything I've been in?

11:20No.

11:22Believe that.

11:24Can you name this film?

11:27Yes.

11:29Dreamer.

11:30Stephanie?

11:31It looks like she's telling the truth.

11:32Yeah.

11:32I mean, I know.

11:34I'm just, I'm just doing my due diligence over here.

11:37Okay.

11:38You're playing young Effie Trinket in the upcoming Hunger Games prequel.

11:42Do you think Effie Trinket would approve of?

11:48This look?

11:49Yeah.

11:51Yes.

11:53She's telling the truth.

11:54Yes.

11:55Yes.

11:55I do.

11:55I think it's actually very Effie Trinket.

11:58Yeah.

11:59That's cute.

11:59Yeah.

11:59Super cute.

12:00It's on those clocks.

12:02What's on the clocks?

12:03I don't know.

12:03Sesame Street, I think.

12:05I don't know.

12:06Inconclusive.

12:10Okay.

12:11Tom Cruise gifted me a Motorola Razr for my 11th birthday.

12:16Be honest.

12:17Were you a little jealous?

12:20No.

12:22That is a lie.

12:23You weren't jealous that Tom Cruise gave it to me.

12:29You were jealous of the phone.

12:30The phone, yeah.

12:31Yeah.

12:31You wanted the phone.

12:32Yeah.

12:33Everyone wanted the phone.

12:35I had no one to call on the phone.

12:37I just wanted the phone.

12:38You and I are both in a group chat dedicated to how hot this man is.

12:43Hottest man I've ever seen in my life.

12:47Sex on legs, baby.

12:53I can't even look.

12:54I can't even look.

12:55It's like, hallelujah.

12:58And you once called him the perfect man.

13:04Would you leave your boyfriend if Jack Black declared his love for you?

13:15Oh, that is the alarm.

13:17No, no, no, Jesus.

13:20No, I would not.

13:22I would not.

13:22No.

13:23Daphne?

13:24The machine is picking up some deception.

13:28Gus doesn't care.

13:31No, by the way, when you met Jack at the Golden Globes, Gus yelled to him and said,

13:37you're her hall pass, by the way.

13:39Yeah.

13:40He's aware.

13:41I mean, maybe Jack Black will watch this year.

13:44You never know.

13:46Would you appear in the next Minecraft movie just to get closer to him?

13:49Yeah.

13:50She is telling the truth.

13:52Do you think expensive adaptations of video games will save cinema?

13:57I don't know.

13:58I don't know.

14:01Is that the truth?

14:02I don't know.

14:03It looks like you're telling the truth.

14:04Yeah, I don't know either.

14:05I'm not sure.

14:06Maybe.

14:07If Jack Black's in them.

14:08You've spent a lot of time around this person.

14:13Yes.

14:14The world needs to know, does he smell good?

14:17Yes.

14:19She is telling the truth?

14:20Yeah.

14:20What does he smell like?

14:24I don't...

14:25He doesn't have, like, a strong odor, I would say.

14:28You've been around him, too.

14:30Yeah, I wouldn't be able to tell you.

14:30You wouldn't be able to say.

14:31Like, fresh, clean.

14:34I'm picking up, like, New York bagel.

14:37I don't know.

14:39He eats a lot of bagels.

14:40A warm, fresh New York bagel?

14:42Yeah.

14:43Okay.

14:43Sure.

14:44Stephanie?

14:45She's being truthful.

14:46Okay.

14:48Did his very long nails freak you out at all on set?

14:54Honestly, yes.

14:57That is the truth.

14:58Yeah.

14:58I mean, I understand.

15:00Did you give him any advice on how to keep them clean and shapely?

15:03No.

15:04I hardly have nails myself.

15:06His nails were longer than mine on set.

15:09Also the truth.

15:11You once played my future granddaughter in Charlotte's Web.

15:15Would you say I have a lot in common with the average grandmother?

15:18What?

15:18I don't even remember this.

15:20I don't even remember playing your granddaughter.

15:22Maybe I think the scene was cut.

15:24But you filmed it.

15:25Oh.

15:26Would you have a lot in common with the grandmother?

15:29Would you say that I have a lot in common with the average grandmother?

15:34No.

15:36Truthful.

15:36Okay.

15:37Thank you very much.

15:38Do you think I give off any grandmother vibes in this photo?

15:44No, I don't.

15:46That is truthful.

15:48Okay.

15:49Would you like to reveal on the record what was happening in this photo?

15:53Okay.

15:53First of all, you were not looking at my butt in a disgusting way.

15:57You were like dancing and doing like a stank face basically.

16:02Yeah, I got caught in a bad moment.

16:04That's what you were doing.

16:05You got caught in a bad moment.

16:07Totally.

16:08And we were in Miami at our friend's bachelorette party.

16:11And it was my birthday that night as well.

16:13Yes.

16:14When was the last time you danced on a table?

16:16Probably this.

16:19I'm not sure.

16:21Will you dance on a table with me after this?

16:24Right now?

16:24No.

16:26No.

16:26At some point in the future, we'll dance on a table again.

16:29Yes.

16:31Truthful.

16:31Okay.

16:31We both appeared on the talk show, Ellen, as kids.

16:35Do you think you were a better dancer than me?

16:38Yes.

16:40That is the truth.

16:43Is it because I popped out my retainer when I was on the show as a 10-year-old?

16:47No.

16:48Not the reason.

16:50That was totally normal to me.

16:52Yeah.

16:52Have you re-watched any of these old Ellen interviews as an adult?

16:58Yes.

17:00Thoughts?

17:01You had really messed up teeth.

17:06I talk about my teeth a lot on talk show.

17:08I know.

17:08You had headgear and all that.

17:10Sometimes it makes you emotional, though.

17:12She is just getting emotional.

17:13Sweetie.

17:13I know.

17:14So sad.

17:15I know.

17:16Why is it so sad?

17:17I don't know.

17:17Watching young...

17:18Watching someone have headgear?

17:20Well, no.

17:21Not even that.

17:21Just, like, you talking when you were young.

17:24It's just sweet.

17:26I hope there was someone out there that also had headgear and knew they weren't alone.

17:32Do you think you're better at press now than you were as a kid?

17:35Yes.

17:37Truthful.

17:39You were good at little, too.

17:40You were very cute.

17:41Yeah, stress me.

17:42We're both obsessed with the TV show The Simple Life.

17:45Do you think we're deserving of our own madcap reality show?

17:49I think we are deserving, yes.

17:51Yes.

17:51Me, too.

17:52She is being truthful.

17:53Yes.

17:54Will we ever do it?

17:56No.

17:59But if we did, what would be the premise?

18:03A day in the life.

18:04A day in the life.

18:05I mean, every day.

18:07Just...

18:08One dinner.

18:09One dinner.

18:09Yeah, one dinner.

18:10Yeah.

18:10It would be anything.

18:11Yeah.

18:11Okay.

18:13In The Simple Life, Paris and Nicole try out lots of different jobs.

18:16Do you think I could make it in this job market if I quit acting?

18:20No, no.

18:21In this job market.

18:22As a, like...

18:22A lie detector?

18:23As Stephanie?

18:24Oh.

18:25Like the global job market.

18:27Oh.

18:27Yes.

18:33Yes.

18:33Stephanie.

18:34She's being honest.

18:36Will you suggest a back...

18:37You, on the other hand.

18:39Jesus.

18:40I'm fine with that.

18:41I accept my strength.

18:42Totally.

18:43Will you suggest a backup career for me?

18:46Lawyer.

18:46Everyone in the family says that.

18:49We've been through this.

18:50Do you think you could make it in the job market if you quit acting?

18:54Yes.

18:56Truthful.

18:57What would you do?

18:58Um...

19:02Well...

19:03I don't know.

19:05I always...

19:06What do you think I would do?

19:07What do you think I would do?

19:09I don't know.

19:10I don't know.

19:11I'm not...

19:11Not in a bad way.

19:12I just never pictured you doing anything else.

19:13Something creative.

19:14I know.

19:15I know creative.

19:15An artist or...

19:16If you say that, it's like...

19:18It's kind of a similar thing in a way.

19:20I always thought I would make miniatures.

19:22I would make dollhouses.

19:22Yeah.

19:23You would do something kind of...

19:24Like hereditary.

19:25Something specific.

19:26Yeah.

19:27Yeah.

19:27Niche.

19:28Mm-hmm.

19:29Make miniatures.

19:29Yeah.

19:30Make miniatures.

19:31Lawyer.

19:32My daughter makes...

19:33Is a lawyer and makes miniatures.

19:36Well, if mom was here and knew you were strapped to a lie detector,

19:39what do you think she would ask you?

19:42It's really hard.

19:43It's really hard.

19:44It would definitely be...

19:45Have you ever lied to me?

19:47And we would say yes.

19:47And we would say obviously yes.

19:49And Stephanie would say yes.

19:50Have we ever lied to our mom?

19:52I mean, who hasn't?

19:53I know.

19:54Did you lie at any point during this interview and we didn't catch you?

19:57No.

19:59Stephanie?

19:59She's being truthful.

20:01Yeah.

20:01Was there any question you were afraid I was going to ask?

20:05No.

20:06No.

20:07You know everything.

20:08That was not truthful.

20:11Right at the end.

20:13Right at the end.

20:14Big liar right at the end.

20:17Say the best for last.

20:19Hmm?

20:19Mm-hmm.

20:19He's coming.

20:21He's coming.

20:22Had a letter.

20:22Debo'Aaron'

20:33...

20:34Good morning.

20:35Get a message.

20:36If you got a goodиль.

20:37Goodbye.

20:38Bye.

20:39Bye.

20:40Bye.

20:41Bye.

20:41Bye-bye.

20:43Bye.

20:44Bye.

20:46Bye.

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