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

nme.com:

The Hollywood Reporter, where she explained the “disgusting” reason why she didn’t get a part in a “father-daughter road trip” comedy film.“I’ve never told this story, but I was trying out for a movie,” Fanning said. “I didn’t get it.

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 unfuckable.’“It’s so disgusting.

And I can laugh at it now, like, ‘What a disgusting pig!’”She added: “I was always immensely confident, but of course you’re growing up in the public eye, and it’s weird.