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EXCLUSIVE: Dakota Fanning’s ‘Diva’ Director Sets the Record Straight

5:00AM Kyle Buchanan | As a 14-year-old transitioning to more grown-up roles, child star Dakota Fanning has an important choice to make: Does she want to be a Jodie Foster or a Lindsay Lohan? (Also, lesbian leanings in former child actresses: discuss) We’ve always pulled for the precocious Fanning, so you can imagine how we felt yesterday when we discovered that Rowan Woods, the director of Dakota’s upcoming Winged Creatures, had called out the actress as a tantrum-throwing “diva” whose performance in the film turned out to be a “disaster” that necessitated some judicious editing. Today, Woods got in touch with us to present his side of the story: More »

Dakota Fanning A Diva From Hell, Claims Her Latest Director

2:40AM Kyle Buchanan | The rollout of Dakota Fanning 2.0 had been going so well: first, the 14-year-old actress made a series of glamorous appearances to support her new movie, The Secret Life of Bees, then she had even Oprah eating out of the palm of her hand with a few simple giggles and a glimpse of her attempt at a normal, cheerleading life. Was Fanning poised to be that rare child star who made the transition to serious actress with a minimum of fuss? Not so much! says Rowan Woods, the director of Fanning’s upcoming film Winged Creatures, who just gave an interview branding the young star as a “diva” whose scenes he had to cut: More »