Dakota Fanning Had Her First Kiss at Age 7 in 'Sweet Home Alabama' | Screen Tests | W Magazine

In this Screen Tests interview, actress Dakota Fanning talks about having her first kiss while playing a young Reese Witherspoon in 'Sweet Home Alabama' but her first kiss in real life happened in her parents' driveway. Actress Dakota Fanning is only 23 years old, but has already been a household name for years thanks to her roles in such varied films as I Am Sam, The Secret Life of Bees, and The Twilight Saga. Most recently, she starred in Brimstone and American Pastoral, a film based on the Philip Roth novel of the same name, as Merry Levov, a teenager who becomes involved in political terrorism; and next, she is collaborating with Kirsten Dunst on an adaptation of Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar. Lynn Hirschberg: In 2016 you starred in American Pastoral. How did the project evolve? Dakota Fanning: So American Pastoral came to me a few years ago, with a different director and with Ewan McGregor and Jennifer Connelly attached as actors to play my parents. So we were all three attached as actors for a while and this director ended up not being able to do it. It was one of those movies that like you kept thinking, "Oh, maybe I'm going to be working on it in the fall," and then the fall would be there and then you wouldn't be working on it and, "Oh, maybe it's going to be in the spring." It just kept getting pushed and pushed and pushed and then when that director fell out that's when Ewan asked if he could direct it. And they said yes and he still wanted me to be in it-