Elle Fanning Recollects Dropping Function in Movie at 16 for Being “Unf–kable”

And on how she digested the incident at the time, Elle noted, “I don’t feel like it damaged me, but it definitely made me very aware of myself.”

“I was always immensely confident, but of course you’re growing up in the public eye, and it’s weird,” the 25-year-old continued. “I’ll look at paparazzi photos from when I was 12 and think, ‘Is that a good thing to see such a mirror of yourself at that age?'”

And after so many years in Hollywood, the Maleficent actress is coming into her own as more than “a child actor or a Disney princess.”

“The Great, again, it’s like a blond royal,” Elle conceded of her character Empress Catherine, “but it’s so turned on its head because it’s raunchy and violent and we’re saying the C-word every other word. I am grateful for the show, because I don’t feel I’m fighting against the child actor thing anymore.”