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Dakota Fanning undoubtedly has one of the most impressive careers in Hollywood. She broke onto the scene at a young age and has continued to wow us with iconic roles throughout her career.

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00:00Hey, who, what, where, I'm Dakota Fanning,

00:02and today we're going behind the looks.

00:04["Uptown Girls"]

00:10Uptown Girls is, and I think even more so

00:14as the years go by, has become a very comforting movie

00:19to a lot of girls and women.

00:22I played a character named Ray,

00:23and Brittany Murphy, who I loved very dearly,

00:26played my nanny.

00:28And the costumes for both of our characters

00:30were a huge part of telling the story.

00:33For her character, it was about the free spirit,

00:37kind of childlike playfulness of Molly.

00:40And then for Ray, it was kind of the uptight hypochondriac,

00:45like a little girl who was sort of scared of everything

00:49in that scene where I do the dance performance.

00:52That costume was really special and handmade.

00:54It had all these little plastic dars on it

00:56and little crystal teardrops.

01:00It was supposed to signify absorbing some

01:03of Brittany's character into my character's spirit.

01:07I really do remember the costumes

01:09and the experience like it was yesterday,

01:11but it was not yesterday, it was a long time ago.

01:14My fondest memory of working with Brittany,

01:17there are too many to count.

01:18She was such a gentle, fun person

01:24who wanted to make every day special for me.

01:28When we finished shooting and wrapped,

01:31my whole dressing room at the studio

01:34was filled with balloons.

01:38She got us matching Juicy Couture tracksuits

01:42with our names on them.

01:45Every little detail was always like,

01:47how could I make something fun for Dakota?

01:51And I just loved her so much

01:54and still really, really miss her.

01:58I Am Sam was my first movie.

02:00I was six and I turned seven.

02:03Michelle Pfeiffer was in that movie

02:05and now I'm in a show with her 20 years later,

02:08literally to the day.

02:09I turned 27 working with her again

02:12after having turned seven working with her the first time.

02:15It is such a ever-present experience in my life.

02:21Because it sort of started my career

02:24and I wouldn't be where I am today

02:27without that experience

02:29and the writer and director Jesse Nelson.

02:32There was a baby dress

02:34that you see my character Lucy wearing as a baby.

02:38So my character Lucy at six years old

02:41wears that same baby dress,

02:42but it's now worn as a shirt

02:44because she's grown and she's taller.

02:46I have that dress slash shirt in my house

02:52framed, it's so little and small.

02:54When I think about it, I think about my little self

02:56in my first film, it's very special.

02:58One of the best costumes that I've ever worn

03:01was a handmade origami crane Halloween costume

03:06and it was made out of aluminum foil.

03:08One of those homemade things that just looked so special,

03:11you know, it was one of those.

03:12Didn't get to keep that, but I might've,

03:15I don't know, it was tinfoil after all.

03:17I don't know where that ended up,

03:19but it was very cute.

03:21In The Cat in the Hat, I play Sally,

03:23such kind of an iconic book

03:25and getting to work with Mike Myers.

03:27It was a real world that was created.

03:31Bo Welch was the director.

03:33He's a, you know, world renowned production designer

03:37and so he was very invested in the look of the film

03:41and like the color palette,

03:42like everything is pretty much like

03:44purple, green, orange, or yellow,

03:45you know, like that sort of,

03:46and then the cat, you know, is black, white, and red

03:50and so it was kind of all about contrast

03:52and creating Cat in the Hat land

03:56and I wore that costume every single day

04:01for almost seven months,

04:03but the character Sally, like,

04:04you go through different things.

04:06So sometimes it would have like purple,

04:09like slime on it or it would be like kind of dirty,

04:12but you know, in The Cat in the Hat land,

04:14like you're perfect in the next scene.

04:16You know, you walk through some magic door

04:17and you're back to your perfect self.

04:20So there were different versions of that look

04:22that fit whatever circumstances

04:25the characters had found themselves in.

04:28Girlfriends who I met like later in my life in high school

04:31and they were like, when I was little,

04:33all I wanted was your costume from The Cat in the Hat.

04:38Coraline is, I think,

04:41maybe one of my most beloved films I've ever done

04:46and it's made by a lot of people.

04:49The way that animation is done is it's all,

04:53the world is built and the models,

04:55they're moved a couple times of a second

04:57to put it all together.

04:59So a little model did wear my Coraline costume

05:02and I do have a model of Coraline in a glass box

05:06in another room in my house.

05:08So we're seeing a pattern here.

05:09I voiced the character of Coraline

05:11over a period of like five or six years

05:14and I think it came out when I was about to turn 15.

05:18At one point, my voice was like,

05:20kinda had changed a little bit

05:22and I had to sort of go back

05:24to pitch my voice up a little bit to be younger.

05:28Coraline also has an iconic look

05:31having the kind of black hair

05:34that's like the blue-black hair

05:36and then of course the changes

05:37from the eyes to the button eyes

05:39and that being a big part of the film,

05:43getting your eyes so shut

05:45and have buttons put on your eyes.

05:47And her yellow raincoat,

05:49you know, she lives in like a wet place.

05:51It's a iconic wardrobe for an animated

05:58but not really animated,

06:00it's like hard to describe what Coraline is.

06:03Oh, yeah, mm-hmm.

06:05Yes, Twilight.

06:07I was in three of the Twilight films.

06:10I played Jane, one of the Volturi vampires.

06:14The costume over the course of the three films

06:18would change slightly

06:20but the Volturi represent a very, you know,

06:23kind of dark, sinister sect of vampire

06:28and so I think that the costumes

06:30were meant to be kind of menacing

06:31and very cloaky and high neck

06:34and lots of capes and boots

06:37that buttoned all the way up to the knee

06:39and sort of baroque in a way.

06:42You know, they're kind of stuck

06:43in a old Italian mausoleum type place

06:49and they don't leave very often.

06:51I also had like the Volturi like crest necklace

06:54that we always wore.

06:55But no, I mean, listen,

06:56I don't think you can get further away

06:58from who I am or any other character

07:02than playing a vampire.

07:06So it was fun to kind of dive in

07:08into the super pale, pale skin

07:11and of course the red contact lenses

07:13and kind of playing up the creepiness.

07:17And I've seen some Halloween costumes

07:19of people dressed up as Jane

07:21and that's always like funny to see.

07:23The Runaways, I played Cherie Currie,

07:27the lead singer of The Runaways.

07:30We got to recreate some really iconic looks of hers.

07:36The white corset, of course,

07:37when she performs Cherry Bomb, the fishnets.

07:40And Cherie was a young girl

07:42in a sort of man's world and man's industry.

07:47And the way that she took ownership of her power

07:51was to shock and surprise,

07:53even wear something that might make somebody uncomfortable.

07:56And that was kind of how she survived

07:59that sort of tough rock and roll scene.

08:02It was also exciting to get to play

08:04with that kind of crazy 70s makeup

08:07and glam rock stuff and the costumes.

08:11And I actually got to keep all of the wardrobe

08:13from that film, so I have it.

08:15The Alienist, Sarah Howard.

08:18In the first season, she's not a detective yet,

08:20but she is a detective in the second season.

08:22So Detective Sarah Howard.

08:25A huge part of The Alienist was the world,

08:29the costumes, the sets,

08:31really transporting the cast and the crew back to that time.

08:36And then, of course, hopefully,

08:38transporting the audience watching it.

08:41For the first season,

08:41the costume designer was Michael Kaplan,

08:43who was a genius and has done so many costumes

08:49that when people think of movies,

08:50they think of some of his costumes.

08:52And for the second season, Rudy Mance,

08:54who has worked with Michael a lot,

08:55he was the costume designer, so it was great.

08:57It didn't feel like a huge shift.

08:59They had the same eye for detail and the same sensibilities.

09:02And Michael kind of led the way for Rudy

09:05to take over when we did the series of the second book.

09:08If there were 70 buttons on my jacket,

09:13they weren't facades with snaps underneath.

09:17They were, unfortunately, some days, really 70 buttons.

09:23But I got very good at knowing what I could take off when.

09:27I'm like, are you gonna see this in this shot?

09:29Nope, okay, I can take these off.

09:31Or, you know what I mean, like,

09:31oh, I'm gonna take certain pieces off.

09:33And then at the end of the day,

09:35on series like that, the person who kind of gets you dressed

09:39and helps you get undressed in the morning and the night time

09:42is so important.

09:43You become so close with them.

09:44And so I had two wonderful women for each time.

09:47And they would say I was done,

09:49and I would be kind of disrobing

09:51as I'm walking back to my trailer to get changed.

09:55And Dora would be behind, kind of big, you know.

09:58I'd be like, oh, here, we can take this off.

10:00I can take this off.

10:01I would do everything aside

10:02from like what I needed to keep on

10:04to not be naked in front of everybody.

10:06But it was like really hot in Budapest, Hungary.

10:09And so it would be rough some days.

10:11Some days were hard, but most days were great.

10:14And it was always wonderful to see the different outfits.

10:18The first lady, I play Susan Ford,

10:22the youngest child and only daughter

10:25of President Gerald Ford and his wife, Betty Ford.

10:29So excited about the project

10:32and to be working with Michelle

10:33and to recreate the mother-daughter bond

10:35between Betty and Susan.

10:37I think it was a very formative relationship

10:40in Betty's life.

10:41And as I said about I Am Sam,

10:43working with Michelle has been

10:44such a formative experience in my life

10:47and getting to know her as an adult

10:49and spend, you know, off time with her as well

10:52was such a dream.

10:54We became very close and she's just the best.

10:59The costume designer scene.

11:01The looks are to a T, some photos of the Ford family.

11:04Like every detail she recreated.

11:07I'm so, so excited to see it in its entirety

11:11and to see the other women's stories.

11:13The show was filmed in three separate blocks.

11:15So Betty was first.

11:18So Michelle and I were filming first

11:20and then it was Viola's Michelle Obama block

11:23and then Jillian's Eleanor Roosevelt block at the end.

11:26So, you know, there's so much of the show

11:28that the people in the other blocks don't get to see.

11:31So I can't wait to see it all woven together

11:35and see the great, great women behind, you know,

11:41the great men.

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