Dakota Fanning's Team Takes Her Career To Higher Level Of Exploitation
Frustrated that preternaturally gifted child actress Dakota Fanning has failed to take home Hollywood's biggest individual award after half a decade of stardom, Fanning's mother and agent are anxious to push the 12-year-old's career to the next level through the careful selection of the type of completely non-exploitative, child-rape-related roles that tend to get the Academy's attention. Reports NY Daily News JV gossip Lloyd Grove:
The screenplay for "Hounddog" - a dark story of abuse, violence and Elvis Presley adulation in the rural South, written and directed by Deborah Kampmeier - calls for Fanning's character to be raped in one explicit scene and to appear naked or clad only in "underpants" in several other horrifying moments.
Fanning's mother, Joy, and her Hollywood agent, Cindy Osbrink, see the movie as a possible Oscar vehicle for the pint-size star. [...]
"It's not just the rape scene - the whole story is challenging Dakota as an actress," Fanning's longtime agent, Osbrink, told me. "And I've never been so proud of her in my life. I've seen the dailies, and in every scene she gets better and better."
We can only imagine how powerful those dailies must be, as a performer of Fanning's talent undoubtedly improves each day in her ability to communicate through her craft how fast a 12-year-old girl can grow up when her agent smells Oscar.
