Elle Fanning 'Refused to Watch' Sister Dakota on Friends After Losing Out on Part in Show

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Elle Fanning 'Refused to Watch' Sister Dakota on Friends After Losing Out on Part in Show

Elle Fanning got used to rejection very early on.

The 20-year-old actress graces the cover of Net-A-Porter’s weekly digital magazine PorterEdit in which she recalled auditioning for a role on the hit NBC sitcom Friends — only to be rejected and later see her older sister Dakota land a role in the show.

“I might be remembering this wrong but I think I was gonna be one of Phoebe’s triplets,” Elle said. “I auditioned for it but I didn’t get it and I was like, ‘I’m boycotting the show, I’m never watching this again.'”

Her feelings were cemented when Dakota, 25, landed a role on the show during the final season.

“Then my sister was on it and I refused to watch the episode,” she explained. “I was like, ‘I am not watching this!'”

Elle Fanning on the cover of Porter EDIT | Matthew Sprout for PorterEdit
Elle Fanning on the cover of Porter EDIT | Matthew Sprout for PorterEdit

While she may have been hurt over the rejection, Elle and Dakota have remained supportive of each others’ careers, which grew out of a mutual love for acting since childhood.

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“[We] would play these elaborate scenes around the house,” Elle said. “Like birthing scenes… I would be the baby coming out. Crazy stuff like that. We were doing it for ourselves; we weren’t, like, ‘Oh, Mom and Dad, sit down and we’re gonna perform for you.’ That was how we played.”

Elle will reprise her role as Aurora in the upcoming Maleficent: Mistress of Evil alongside Angelina Jolie. She’s gearing up to promote a music film, Teen Spirit, in which she portrays a shy teenager who sets out to win a local singing competition as a way out of her small town.

Elle Fanning | Matthew Sprout for PorterEdit
Elle Fanning | Matthew Sprout for PorterEdit

“I wasn’t on anybody’s radar about getting this part [in Teen Spirit],” she said. “I’m always looking for movies where I’d be able to sing, because people don’t really know that I can. But I always loved singing growing up. It was either, be a pop star or an actress.”

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One day, Fanning said, she might even release a few albums, start a production company with her sister, have a few kids and even own a home in England.

“The fourth album might buy the house in London,” Fanning joked.

Teen Spirit opens April 5.