Often with interviews, I’m so hyper focused on one particular movie or show that it can be easy to overlook how much variety someone has in their filmography, like Dakota Fanning. Since jump starting her career at just seven-years-old with I Am Sam, Fanning’s amassed an impressive amount of credits ranging from big budget fare like War of the Worlds to hot franchises like the Twilight films, and also some independent gems like Kelly Reichardt’s Night Moves. But even after spending nearly two decades accumulating credits non-stop, there was one thing Fanning had yet to do until recently - star in a live-action TV show.
Fanning stars opposite Luke Evans and Daniel Brühl in TNT’s The Alienist as Sara Howard, a young woman who’d rather work for the NYPD in the 1890s than submit to societal exceptions to forego a career and find a husband. In The Alienist, we do see Sara go toe-to-toe with her male counterparts often, but in Angel of Darkness, Sara is embracing her potential to the fullest by setting up the Howard Detective Agency and working as a private detective.
On this episode of Collider Connected, Fanning takes the time to revisit the beginning of her career and reflect on how all of the steps she took over the years led her to The Alienist: Angel of Darkness.
187