Elle Fanning says she was turned down from a movie role at 16-years-old for being 'unf**kable'.
The Great actor featured alongside Ayo Edebiri, Devery Jacobs, Natasha Lyonne, Jenna Ortega and Sheryl Lee Ralph on The Hollywood Reporter's 'Comedy Actress Roundtable', which premiered earlier today (6 June).
The unsavoury revelation began when Ralph started to compare 'fame to a machine'.
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"You can stand outside of it and look, but once that door opens and you get in, it takes you up on different levels," the Abbott Elementary actor said.
"It’s a different experience. The more you rise to the top, there are more people who are going to tell you this and that and how you can be."
Fanning then replied: "It’s so inspiring to hear that from someone who has been in it for such a long time and [knows that] grind of how people love to put you in a box.
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"I was very protected, I have an amazing manager and agent who’ve been with me since I was 8 or 9, same people, which is..."
"Rare," interjected Ralph, to which Fanning continued: "Very, and I recognise that."
The 25-year-old then explained how she was once received a horrific comment explaining why she didn't get the part for a movie.
"I’ve never told this story, but I was trying out for a movie. I didn’t get it," she said.
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"I don’t even think they ever made it, but it was a father-daughter road trip comedy.
"I didn’t hear from my agents because they wouldn’t tell me things like this — that filtration system is really important because there’s probably a lot more damaging comments that they filtered — but this one got to me.
"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'."
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A shocked Ralph gasped: "Whoa. At 16?!"
"Yeah, it’s so disgusting. And I can laugh at it now, like, 'What a disgusting pig!'" replied Fanning. "I was always immensely confident, but of course you’re growing up in the public eye, and it’s weird.
"I’ll look at paparazzi photos from when I was 12 and think, 'Is that a good thing to see such a mirror of yourself at that age?'
"I don’t feel like it damaged me, but it definitely made me very aware of myself."
Fanning is currently the star of TV series The Great, where she plays Empress Catherine II.
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The show follows Empress Catherine II, who is living in rural Russia during the 18th century, and is forced to choose between her own personal happiness and the future of Russia, when she marries an Emperor.
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