Elle Fanning lost film role at 16 because she was deemed “unfuckable”

Chanelle Hayes told how she felt “disgusted” with herself after binge eating “all day long” following her gastric band surgery. The former Big Brother star, 35, has shed nine stone - dropping from a dress size 18 to an eight - following the weight loss procedure in August 2020. But, in a candid post on Instagram to her 122,000 followers, she opened up on how the surgery has not “cured” her relationship with food.

Elle Fanning has revealed there is still hope for her movie collaboration with her sister Dakota Fanning. In late 2019, it was announced that the real-life siblings would play sisters in the movie adaptation of Kristin Hannah's 2015 novel The Nightingale. The movie was in pre-production when the pandemic hit in 2020 and its release date kept being pushed back, leading many to wonder if it had been scrapped for good.

.Throughout May, made headlines with a on the Croisette—from a bespoke Alexander McQueen gown to a silver Paco Rabanne party look with sculptural nipple covers. Her looks off the red carpet also , particularly the dreamy yet casual black corset dress by Bottega Veneta (which would later be worn in Paris ).While out in LA on June 7, Fanning gave the corset trend another wearable, flirty spin by pairing a structured black corset with visible boning and fastenings with a pair of semibaggy trousers and pointed-toe pumps.

Anna Marie Tendler is opening up about her divorce from John Mulaney — and how her dog saved her life. In a lengthy essay published to Elle T

Sophia Scorziello editor What does it mean to be a funny girl? Actors Elle Fanning (“The Great”), Janelle James (“Abbott Elementary”), Gina Rodriguez (“Not Dead Yet”) and Kerry Washington (“UnPrisoned”) discuss being a woman in comedy at Variety TV FYC Fest’s Disney Women of Comedy panel, moderated by Variety’s Angelique Jackson. Each TV character they play — whether she’s an empress of Russia, a public school principal, a family therapist or a journalist who talks to the dead — is layered and complicated. Through comedy, these actors have found the freedom to be contradictory, to not have it all together and to be a little messy.

Under pressure. Jenna Ortega cried while talking to Elle Fanning about the intensity of using social media as a young actress.

Damn! You wanna know why people think Hollywood is full of creeps and pervs? Because of a-holes like this!

Growing up in the spotlight with social media isn’t easy.

Elle Fanning opened up about the time she failed to get a part at age just 16 because she was “unf**kable.”

Jenna Ortega and Elle Fanning are opening up about their careers.

Elle Fanning, 25, and Jenna Ortega, 20, have learned a lot from their roles as Catherine the Great and Wednesday Addams (respectively). Hulu’s “The Great” and Netflix’s “Wednesday” have educated them about their craft as actors, but also about how producing can liberate them from toxic workplace dynamics. These former child stars let each other in on how they’re navigating adulthood and the pressures of social media, a topic that makes Ortega teary. ELLE FANNING: Are you a good auditioner? I’m terrible. I fainted once. I think I was 12. But I got Pinkberry and Burger King afterwards, so I was like, “This is great!” They make me so nervous.

Elle Fanning says she was called ‘unf---able’ at 16 years old, a label that ultimately cost her a movie role. "I was very protected," the actress, now 25, shared during a roundtable discussion hosted by The Hollywood Reporter, noting she has had the same team since she was 8 or 9 years old. "This is an interesting story that I was like, ‘I’ve never said this' but I'm like, ‘I’ll say it at the table, maybe!'… I was trying out for a movie.

Elle Fanning is sharing another story about a role she lost out on.

Katherine Heigl is speaking out about the controversy surrounding those interviews which led to her being labelled difficult.

, the actor said she once missed out on a role because someone said she was “unfuckable.” She was only 16 at the time. “I’ve never told this story, but I was trying out for a movie. I didn’t get it. I don’t even think they ever made it, but it was a father-daughter road trip comedy,” Fanning explained to the group during the discussion.

Elle Fanning is teaming up with Sarah Paulson for a brand new project.

teenage hypersexualization in the media.“The Great” star, 25, got candid during the Hollywood Reporter’s Comedy Actress Roundtable interview recently, recalling how she lost out on a role because she wasn’t sexually attractive enough to casting directors when she was just 16 years old — for a “father-daughter road trip comedy,” no less.Fanning explained how her team had to “filter” explicit comments that people had said of her audition. “I was 16 years old, and a person said, ‘Oh, she didn’t get the father-daughter road trip comedy because she’s unf – – kable.'”“It [was] so disgusting.

Elle Fanning and Sarah Paulson are to star in 'I Am Sybil'. The pair have boarded the movie that is to be co-written and directed by Mirrah Foulkes. The picture is to explore the true story behind the cultural-sensation case of Sybil, one of the first mainstream cases of dissociative identity disorder (formerly known as multiple personality disorder), which raised questions in the public consciousness around identity and mental health.

EXCLUSIVE: Elle Fanning (The Great) and Sarah Paulson (Ratched) are attached to star in I Am Sybil, a new film co-written and directed by Mirrah Foulkes (Judy & Punch) that explores the gripping true story behind the best-selling book and cultural-sensation case of Sybil, one of the first mainstream cases of dissociative identity disorder (or multiple personality disorder, as it was then known), which spurred questions in the public consciousness around identity and mental health.

Sir Ian McKellen almost appeared on Emmerdale, but unfortunately, Coronation Street’s creator prevented the casting. While appearing on This Morning, Sir Ian, 84, spoke about his master plan to appear in every soap playing the same character. The idea began to formulate when he appeared in ten episodes of Coronation Street in 2005 as con artist Lionel Hipkiss who pretended to be an author called Mel Hutchwright.