When Elle Fanning was around 14 or 15 years old, she had a cork board in her bedroom adorned with pictures she had printed out from the internet. There were a lot of Tumblr photos and images of It Girl Alexa Chung (“a fashion icon,” Fanning says). Also pinned to that shrine? Images of Bob Dylan.
Fanning had been introduced to Dylan’s music when she was a 12-year-old on the set of Cameron Crowe’s “We Bought a Zoo.” Crowe would play the song “Buckets of Rain” all the time. It piqued Fanning’s interest, so Crowe introduced her to Dylan’s 1975 album, “Blood on the Tracks.” Fanning was hooked.
“It opened up my world,” she recalls, leaning in close to the Zoom camera, her excited face filling the screen. “It was a whole other side of music. It was like I was living in my own fantasy — I would create these future mes and my future self and think of myself doing things and listening to these songs. That’s what it evoked for me.”
Fanning is starring in
@completeunknownfilm, director James Mangold’s thoughtful Bob Dylan biopic (in wide release Dec. 25), which captures the musician in his nascent era as he prowls the Greenwich Village scene. She plays Sylvie Russo, a character based on Dylan’s one-time girlfriend Suze Rotolo, albeit with a different name. Rotolo, famously, was the girl clinging to Dylan’s arm on the cover of “The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan,” the landmark 1963 album that introduced songs like “Blowin’ in the Wind” and “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright.”
@ellefanning sat down with The Times. Read more at the link in
@latimes_entertainment’s bio.
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