With all of the characters that I've played, I could always find a piece of myself in them. But in this one I couldn't find anything
Look up the word precocious in the dictionary and you'll probably find Dakota Fanning's name staring back at you. Aged eight, she was the youngest ever recipient of a Screen Actors Award for her performance opposite Sean Penn in I Am Sam, subsequently starring in Sweet Home Alabama, The Cat In The Hat, and Man On Fire. She gets second billing behind Tom Cruise in Spielberg's upcoming War Of The Worlds. Before that, though, she's acting Robert De Niro off the screen in the thriller/spookfest Hide And Seek, playing a creepy-looking kid struggling to come to terms with her mom's death...
WATCH: Dakota Fanning interviewHide And Seek is released in UK cinemas on Friday 25th February 2005.
