Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning are good friends and co-stars — last year in "The Twilight Saga: New Moon," most recently in "The Runaways," and soon in "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse," opening Wednesday.
But they’re also neatly paired opposites.
Stewart might uncomfortably remind you of the young person living in your house, or the one you used to be — prone to bad posture, complicated moods and eye-rolling exasperation.
Fanning, however, is a picture-perfect role model.
She dutifully fits in a morning of interviews on an already crammed day in Manhattan. Dressed in fashionable but appropriate tight black leggings and loose white blouse, she listens to questions attentively and answers in calm, direct sentences.
"She’s so professional," one TV reporter after another says after leaving Fanning’s hotel suite.
Well, she should be. She’s only been doing this for about two-thirds of her life.
"It’s really funny, in my baby book, it’s like, ‘Okay, what’s your kid like at this age?’ " the 16-year-old recounts later, sitting in the hotel restaurant. "And my mom wrote, ‘She’s very talkative, she likes to act out everything, she could be a little actress!’ And I was, like, 1, or something crazy like that."
By the time she was 5, Fanning was acting professionally. (Up until then, apparently, she’d just sat around. Slacker.)
And soon she was building a career that’s had a few big successes ("I Am Sam," "War of the Worlds") and the inevitable controversy ("Hounddog") — along with a fun sidetrip to the phenomenon known as "Twilight."
Terrible, but, says Fanning, understandable.
"It has a lot to do with people having watched me since I was a little girl," she says. "People feel that they know me, which is normal, but also sometimes own me in a way, you know what I mean? And I get that. But people have to realize that I’m getting older. I’m growing up. I’m going to be doing different things. You’re going to see me in films in somewhat compromising situations, but that’s what I need to do, to do different things, to challenge myself. And hopefully, the fans that I already have will be able to take that journey with me."
That journey got a little bumpier with "The Runaways." In that based-on-a-true story drama, she played Cherie Currie, lead singer of the ’70s teen-punk band — and indulged on-screen in "somewhat compromising situations" including drinking, drugs and lesbianism.
"I really grew up a lot during that, and learned a lot about myself, and got close to some people who really changed my life," Fanning says. "And the singing — that was something I didn’t even know I was capable of, so that was great too, putting myself out there in a way I hadn’t before. I wish I could do it all again, it was such a great experience. I’ve still got all that music on my iPod."
The movie — which co-starred Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett — sputtered and died at the box office. No one, however, is predicting the same fate for the two friends’ next film.
"When you’re at one of the ‘Twilight’ premieres, and you see the people who’ve camped out two weeks just to get a glimpse of their favorite person in the movie, you get a sense of how big this is," Fanning says. "And the story has something for everybody. There’s that forbidden love kind of thing. There are the big action sequences. And then there are the scary people, like me!"
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