So Chic | October

The Popcorn Place

The Popcorn Place

Hi guys! This month we'll let you read the interview of Elle Fanning, our covergirl this month, the new disney princess and New Yorker, Johansson. It's kind of fun, so we hope that you enjoy it! 

♒ Hi, Elle, how do you feel?

FANNING: This is so cool! I'm nervous.

♒ Where are you? 

FANNING: I'm at home in L.A. 

♒ Are you in school right now?

FANNING: No, it's Spring Break for us, so we have two weeks off. Then tonight I'm actually going to my best friend's house. She's named Scarlett too. We're going to Carmel in the morning.

♒ Carmel is beautiful. Are you guys going to hang out and go shopping and hiking? 

FANNING: We always break into the golf course. If you're on Pebble Beach, you can climb up the rocks and get to the golf course. I guess it's illegal but—

♒ Well, now everybody knows! [laughs] You might need to change your plan of action. When I was your age, going to school was sort of a means to an end. What's your relationship with school? 

FANNING: I was homeschooled up until third grade, and I liked it because my grandma taught me, and I loved being with my grandma. But then I didn't really have any friends, none my own age. So my mom put me in school in fourth grade. It's cool because I've realized things about myself that I wouldn't have if I weren't in school. My favorite subject is science, which is so weird because I would think that my favorite subject would be, I don't know, something more artistic. I only have two more years left now because I'm a sophomore. But I'm also excited to get out of school.

♒ Do you think you're going to apply to college?

FANNING: I'm trying to decide. My sister is at NYU and she likes it. I need to figure out what type of college would be good for me. I think I either want to do writing or photography. 

♒ If you weren't acting, what do you think you might be interested in as a career?

FANNING: I go to ballet, like, five days a week and I love it so much, but that's the hardest thing I'll ever do in my life, no doubt. You're good or bad, and that's it. [sighs] That would be hard to pursue as a career, but in my dream that would be the thing.

♒ I remember you doing ballet in Somewhere. Was that something you had already been doing?

FANNING: It was. I had been doing it at school for a little bit. But around the time of that movie, when I was 11, I found this lady who teaches me at her house. 

♒ Do you perform at all?

FANNING: Sometimes. My teacher mostly prepares us to be able to go join a company one day or something like that. But sometimes, like during Christmas when my grandpa comes out from Georgia, we'll just put something together and show everyone in our house.

♒ That's cool! Do you think that helps you with your work? Obviously, as an actor, your body is such a huge tool.

FANNING: It makes you aware of your body. You have to be aware of every single muscle. It's cool to be able to have the ability and the posture. I also like the discipline of it. You can't be goofing around. You have to be very serious.

♒ Do you think acting is like ballet in that, as you say, you are either good or bad?

FANNING: Acting is different from dance in that way. The black-and-whiteness of dancing is mostly about the technical form—like, this is how people have been doing it for millions of years. You can't let down those ballerinas who died a long time ago. My teacher will say, "This person would be ashamed!" And it's like, oh God. But with acting, it's different because people like something fresh. You can mix it up and create your own thing and it's not necessarily wrong. 

♒ What's your social life like, apart from breaking and entering. What do you and your friends do for fun? 

FANNING: Now is a huge age because everyone's driving. But I can't drive. I should be getting my license because I turn 16 on April 9th. But I don't even have my permit because you have to study and it's a lot of work.

♒ Haha, that's it then. See you later!

FANNING: See you!

*Taken from Johansson