2:30AM Seth | After a self-imposed exile that had many wondering if—shunted aside by the younger and even more precocious Abigail Breslin—she’d perhaps moved to Japan to begin the second phase of her career as a celebrity spokesperson for a popular chain of capsule hotels, Dakota Fanning has reemerged into the public eye. And what a spectacular transformation! Almost no traces of her larval stage as the child prodigy actress who screamed her way to greatness in
War of the Worlds still exists. Now 14, the actress stars in
The Secret Life of Bees—a sort of
Waiting to Exhale meets the opening scenes of
The Jerk, with Fanning playing a neglected girl taken in by three African-American sisters, played by Queen Latifah, Sophie Okonedo and Alicia Keys.
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