Is it just me - or is everyone like SO sick of Dakota Fanning? Even her name irks me. She gives talk-show interviews as if she were a fifty-year old, Oscar-winning Hollywood icon (seriously, watch her go-to move: it's an over-the-right-shoulder-hair flip - "I'm boooored. I've been doing this SO long") and employs the saccharine demureness of an 'I'm so humble, this could have happened to anyone' child star. I seriously would like her better if she sat next to David Letterman and was like, "Yeah. I'm the shit. That's why I get the work. I'm cute -- but cute like I'm going to transition into adulthood in a good-looking way not like Haly Joel Osment AND I can act - so suck it!"
Well, the girl certainly can act because she's been pulling the cashmere wool over our eyes. She's not sweet and humble. She knows exactly what she's doing.
My theory is she's planning to take over Hollywood (and possibly the world) along with her buddies Tom Cruise, Kirstie Alley and Jenna Elfman and all the other Scientologists. (Okay, I'm not sure she's friends with the others but the Tom Cruise friendship is creepy enough for me.) The Cruise-connection alone is like a billion points against her in my book. But in Scientology world - it probably means a million fewer aliens vying for her soul. Yes, Tom has that much clout with L. Ron Hubbard.
In a recent interview, Dakota (who, at this moment is probably purchasing her third Malibu condo, writing a hot screenplay which she'll also star in and starting her own production company with some cheezy name like "Fanning the Flames of Film") claims she wants to "direct." Right.
Okay? I'm sorry. Sometimes, I get confused about the whole 'cliche' meaning and phenomenon, so help me out here... Does this mean that maybe we can expect Dakota to fly to Cambodia next month and start adopting children a few years younger than herself, join MENSA and NASA, develop a cure for depression and win an Emmy for her Oscar acceptance speech? All before fourteen?
The worst part is - she has a sister. I smell a vanilla-scented Olsen combo here.
Check Miss-Humble-As-Pie-Know-It-All's interview out:
Dakota the Director