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Dakota Fanning looks back on her career as a child actor, sharing that she always preferred to be treated the same as everyone else on set. She humorously discusses the surreal feeling of no longer being the youngest person during production.
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00:00I know what I preferred when I was younger, and that was to be treated kind of the same as
00:06everyone else, you know?
00:07I didn't want to be, like, spoken to like a little kid or something.
00:13I just, I wanted to be kind of in the group and wanted to be treated as another actor.
00:20And I was so fortunate that I just worked with great people who treated me very appropriately,
00:25but also really valued the work that I was doing and recognized it, that I was doing the same job
00:30as everyone else.
00:33And so, yeah, I try and just kind of approach it with that.
00:36It's still very surreal to me that I'm not the youngest person on set anymore.
00:42It's still very foreign.
00:43And there's, like, crew members that are younger than me.
00:46I'm like, what?
00:46I'm supposed to be the youngest person here.
00:48Like, what is going on?
00:51So even, I'm still, I'm getting used to that because it's recently changed.
00:56At 30, I think at 30, I felt like it really changed that, you know, there's, like, a 24-year
01:02-old, like, costume assistant.
01:04I'm like, what?

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