Elle Fanning Reveals The Ridiculous Reason She Lost Out On A Role When She Was A Teen

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Elle Fanning is sharing another story about a role she lost out on. In a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter, the 24-year-old The Great actress says that she was passed over on a movie part because she was deemed “unf***able”. Keep reading to find out more… “I’ve never told this story,” she prefaced while talking to the outlet, adding that she was “trying out for a movie” and didn’t get it. “I don’t even think they ever made it, but it was a father-daughter road trip comedy,” Elle continued. “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***able.’” Elle added, “It’s so disgusting.

And I can laugh at it now, like, ‘What a disgusting pig!’” “I was always immensely confident, but of course you’re growing up in the public eye, and it’s weird,” she shared. “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.” Elle‘s comments come just a month after she also revealed she lost out on a role because of her Instagram follower count at the time.