Dakota Fanning is way ahead of most actors her age considering her experience playing big screen roles dates back to being seven alongside the likes of Sean Penn and Michelle Pfieffer in her movie debut, "I Am Sam." As the actress stars in her latest movie, Ishana Night Shayamalan’s "The Watchers," it made me wonder how her first horror movie, Steven Spielberg’s "War Of The Worlds," may have come into play.
During our CinemaBlend interview, CinemaBlend's Sarah El-Mahmoud told Dakota Fanning that "War Of The Worlds" was one of the first scary movies she got to see. She was about her age when my parents let me watch the 2005 movie because it was made by Steven Spielberg and a little girl starred in it. Here’s what the actor recalled about being on the set 20 years ago.
During our CinemaBlend interview, CinemaBlend's Sarah El-Mahmoud told Dakota Fanning that "War Of The Worlds" was one of the first scary movies she got to see. She was about her age when my parents let me watch the 2005 movie because it was made by Steven Spielberg and a little girl starred in it. Here’s what the actor recalled about being on the set 20 years ago.
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00:00So one of the first scary movies I saw was War of the Worlds, which is 20 years next year, if you can believe it.
00:07I was curious if there's something on that set that you really learned about the genre or suspense that you can recall.
00:15Oh, I mean, I learned so much on that movie, just working with the, you know, greatest of all time and Steven and working with Tom and all of the people that they surround themselves with,
00:27who are just at the, you know, top of their games.
00:31And so it was a learning experience every day.
00:33But for suspense, I think that it's to always take your time, you know, I think like you can't rush that.
00:42And I think that this film also shares that of, you know, you don't necessarily get to see the creature right away or something.
00:52You know what I mean?
00:52It's like I'm, when you say War of the Worlds, I'm reminded of like that scene in the basement when that kind of eye is coming down and the build of that.
01:00And it's sort of simply done in a way, but it's that, it's the pace of it, you know?
01:07Totally.
01:07That kind of creates that, yeah.