OTRC: 'Dakota Fanning talks fun with the cast and her first prom with Jay Leno

Dakota Fanning was a guest on The Tonight Show Monday where revealed she’s a huge Lakers fan, the celebrity that left her star struck, and what her and fellow Twilight stars do for fun while filming.

“I really love the Lakers, Fanning said. “I love Pau and Kobe, they’re my two favorites.” Leno presented her with a basketball signed by Gasol as a gift.

Fanning, who recently talked about her attempts to lead a normal high school life, is on her school’s varsity cheerleading squad and was recently crowned homecoming princess. “I’m a junior so I’m finally allowed to go to prom,” Fanning told Leno. “It was really fun. I didn’t think I was going to be able to go and then two days before, I decided to go and then I had to find a dress and get ready at the last minute, but it was really fun.”
She said that while filming in Vancouver, Twilight fans waited outside the hotel for a glimpse of the cast and that during New Moon, she and the cast had a very strange bowling experience.

“We went to this bowling alley but all the pins and bowling balls were miniature,” Fanning said. “They like handed me a piece of paper and a pencil and I had to do all the scores by hand. I was getting all the scores, I couldn’t do the math.”

Fanning is also a big American Idol fan and said she met finalist Crystal Bowersox backstage at the show. “Oh my goodness, I was dying. I was such a big fan,” she said. She mentioned that her first concert was by her Secret Life of Bees co-star Alicia Keys. Her second? Britney Spears.

"Britney Spears was the first famous person I'd really ever met when I came to California,” she recalled. “I was so star struck by her and I just loved her so much.


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