00:00Kirsten Dunst is obsessed with Elle and Dakota Fanning, the third sister.
00:05Out of all the celebrity friendships in the world, Kirsten Dunst and Dakota and Elle Fanning has to be at the top.
00:11Elle and Kirsten starred together in the 2017 period drama The Beguiled,
00:15and Kirsten and Dakota were supposed to work on an adaptation of The Bell Jar before Kay exited the project in 2019.
00:22But these three are more than just friends.
00:25Kirsten considers herself the third sister.
00:27For Dakota and Elle Fanning's Vanity Fair cover story, Kirsten Dunst, or is it Kirsten Fanning now?
00:34Kidding. Praises the sister's authenticity?
00:37They're so smart. Smarter than I was at this age.
00:40But also, they're real, the little women actress tells VF.
00:44They understand the bull of this industry.
00:47Elle feels like the younger sibling to me, she continues.
00:51She presents herself more unencumbered by things, but I think that's deceiving.
00:55All three of us wear things pretty lightly when we present ourselves to the world, but there's a depth.
01:01They're very discerning, very intuitive.
01:03Nothing gets past those two.
01:05Michelle Pfeiffer agrees.
01:07I've never felt there was anything I could teach these two, ever.
01:11They're a lot younger than me, but they feel like peers.
01:14But Elle attributes her ascent into the next phase of her career to her big sister.
01:19Dakota was always there to protect me, she says.
01:22It's molded both of us.
01:23The responsibility that she's felt.
01:26That I don't even know that she's felt.
01:28The Fanning sisters are about to embark on their first acting gig as scene partners.
01:32An adaptation of Kirsten Hanna's The Nightingale.
01:35When we were younger, we wanted to make sure that people saw us differently, and we wanted to give each other space to carve our own path, Elle tells VF.
01:44But as adults, it's been very fulfilling to merge.
01:48We've literally never done a scene together, ever, Dakota says.
01:52And they're both hoping they can actually complete filming.
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