JamesG
03-22-2019, 10:09 PM
Elle Fanning "Refused to Watch" Sister Dakota on "Friends" after Not Getting the Role
by Alexia Fernandez
March 22, 2019
Elle Fanning got used to rejection very early on. The 20-year-old actress graces the cover of Net-A-Porter’s weekly digital magazine PorterEditt in which she recalled auditioning for a role on the hit NBC sitcom "Friends" — only to be rejected and later see her older sister Dakota land a role in the show.
“I might be remembering this wrong but I think I was gonna be one of Phoebe’s triplets,” Elle said. “I auditioned for it but I didn’t get it and I was like, ‘I’m boycotting the show, I’m never watching this again.’”
Her feelings were cemented when Dakota, 25, landed a role on the show during the final season.
“Then my sister was on it and I refused to watch the episode,” she explained. “I was like, ‘I am not watching this!’”
While she may have been hurt over the rejection, Elle and Dakota have remained supportive of each others’ careers, which grew out of a mutual love for acting since childhood.
“We would play these elaborate scenes around the house,” Elle said. “Like birthing scenes… I would be the baby coming out. Crazy stuff like that. We were doing it for ourselves; we weren’t, like, ‘Oh, Mom and Dad, sit down and we’re gonna perform for you.’ That was how we played.”
https://ew.com/tv/2019/03/22/elle-fanning-dakota-friends-role/
by Alexia Fernandez
March 22, 2019
Elle Fanning got used to rejection very early on. The 20-year-old actress graces the cover of Net-A-Porter’s weekly digital magazine PorterEditt in which she recalled auditioning for a role on the hit NBC sitcom "Friends" — only to be rejected and later see her older sister Dakota land a role in the show.
“I might be remembering this wrong but I think I was gonna be one of Phoebe’s triplets,” Elle said. “I auditioned for it but I didn’t get it and I was like, ‘I’m boycotting the show, I’m never watching this again.’”
Her feelings were cemented when Dakota, 25, landed a role on the show during the final season.
“Then my sister was on it and I refused to watch the episode,” she explained. “I was like, ‘I am not watching this!’”
While she may have been hurt over the rejection, Elle and Dakota have remained supportive of each others’ careers, which grew out of a mutual love for acting since childhood.
“We would play these elaborate scenes around the house,” Elle said. “Like birthing scenes… I would be the baby coming out. Crazy stuff like that. We were doing it for ourselves; we weren’t, like, ‘Oh, Mom and Dad, sit down and we’re gonna perform for you.’ That was how we played.”
https://ew.com/tv/2019/03/22/elle-fanning-dakota-friends-role/