Dakota Fanning Likes Karaoke, Finds Dates ‘Horrific’
Dakota Fanning is not one to let loose on Twitter — or at all, for that matter. Or so we thought!
The 22-year-old actress confesses in a new interview with Town & Country that she’s a wild woman when it comes to karaoke, often choosing to perform Carrie Underwood’s “Before He Cheats.”
“By the end of the night, I let myself go and I’m just screaming,” she tells the magazine. “It’s not about being good. I don’t care about that.”
Fanning otherwise manages to keep a low profile, whether she’s starring in movies like the upcoming The Bell Jar, written and directed by Kirsten Dunst, or attending her senior year at New York University, where she’s studying the portrayal of women in film. She says the nature of NYC, where she lives in a ritzy off-campus apartment, makes things easy for her.
“Everyone in New York is very self-involved,” she says in a way that, the writer notes, “sounds like a compliment.” Fanning explains: “They’re focused on themselves. Like, walking down the street, people are just in their own zone. There are times where you do snap. Someone bumps into you one too many times, and you’re just like…”
Fanning stays in line, though. It’s just her way.
“I was raised by very traditional Southern parents with Southern manners,” the Georgia native says. “You don’t air your dirty laundry to people that aren’t your family or your friends. Why would I ever want to portray myself as anything other than together?”
But she does open up about one area of her life that could definitely use some work: dating. The Coraline star and her boyfriend of two years, 35-year-old British model Jamie Strachan, recently split.
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“The way I prefer to meet someone is through a friend,” so the person “is most likely not a freak.”
“I find dates, in general, horrific,” she says. “We have to sit there and ask these questions and pretend to eat a meal, and it just feels so stiff.”
Maybe she should take her next date to a karaoke bar!
