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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?

00:01I'm Dakota Fanning, and today we're going Behind the Looks.

00:10Uptown Girls is, and I think even more so as the years go by,

00:15has become a very comforting movie to a lot of girls and women.

00:22I played a character named Ray, and Brittany Murphy,

00:24who I loved very dearly, played 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 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, like, crystal, like, teardrops.

01:00It was supposed to signify absorbing some of Brittany's

01:03character into my character's spirit.

01:07I really do remember the costumes and the experience

01:10like it was yesterday, but it was not yesterday.

01:12It 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 who wanted

01:25to make every day special for me.

01:28When we, you know, finished shooting and wrapped,

01:31like, my whole dressing room at the studio was filled

01:35with balloons and filled, like, we, and we hit, we, um,

01:38she got us, like, matching juicy couture, like, track suits

01:42with our names on them.

01:43Like, she just, every, every little detail was always, like,

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

01:51And, and, and, um, I just loved her so much and, and still really,

01:56really miss, 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 and now I'm, you know,

02:06in a show with her 20 years later, literally to the day.

02:09I, I turned 27 working with her again after having turned seven

02:13working with her the first time.

02:15It is such a ever-present experience in my life because it sort

02:22of started my career and I, I wouldn't, I wouldn't be

02:26where I am today without, um, you know, that experience

02:29and the, the writer and the director, Jesse Nelson.

02:31And there was a baby dress that you see my character,

02:36Lucy, wearing as a baby.

02:38So my character, Lucy, at six years old, wears that same

02:42baby dress, but it's now worn as a shirt because she's grown

02:45and she's taller.

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

02:52It's so little and small.

02:54And I, when I think about it, I think about like my little self

02:56in my first film.

02:57It's very special.

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

03:03origami crane Halloween costume.

03:06And it was made out of like aluminum foil.

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

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

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

03:15It was, it was tin foil after all.

03:17I don't know where that ended up, but it was very cute.

03:20In the cat in the hat, I play Sally, such kind of an iconic book and getting to work

03:26with Mike Myers.

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

03:31Beau 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 and like the color palette,

03:42like everything is pretty much like purple, green, orange, or yellow, you know,

03:45like that's sort of, and then, and then the cat, you know, is black, white, and red.

03:50And so it was kind of all about contrast and creating cat in the hat land.

03:55And, um, I wore that costume every single day for all those seven months, but the character

04:03Sally, like you go through different things.

04:05So sometimes it would have like purple, like slime on it, or it would be like kind of dirty,

04:12but you know, in the cat in the hat land, like you're perfect in the next scene, you know,

04:16you walk through some magic door and you're back to your perfect self.

04:19So there were different versions of that look that were, um, that fit whatever circumstances

04:25the characters had, uh, found themselves in.

04:27Girlfriends who I met like later in my life in high school, and they were like,

04:31when I was little, all I wanted was your costume from the cat in the hat.

04:38Coraline is, I think maybe one of my most beloved films I've ever done by a lot of people.

04:46The way that animation is done is it's all, the world is built and the models,

04:53they're moved a couple times of a second to put it all together.

04:56Um, so a little model did wear my Coraline costume.

04:59And I do have a model of Coraline in a glass box in another room in my house.

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

05:07I voiced the character of Coraline over a period of like five or six years.

05:12Cause I started doing it when I was like nine and I think it came out when I was about to turn like 15.

05:18At one point, like my voice was like, kind of had changed a little bit.

05:22And I had to sort of go back to like a younger, like pitch my voice up a little bit to be younger.

05:28Coraline is also has an iconic look, having the kind of black hair that's like the blue black hair.

05:35And then of course the changes from like the eyes to the button eyes and that, you know,

05:41being a big part of the film, getting your eyes so shut and have buttons put on your eyes.

05:47And her yellow raincoat, you know, she lives in like a wet place.

05:51It's, it's a, it's a iconic, uh, iconic wardrobe for an animated, but not really animated.

05:59It's like hard to describe what, what Coraline is.

06:02Oh yeah.

06:05Yes.

06:06Twilight.

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

06:09I played Jane, one of the Volturi vampires,

06:14the costume over the course of the three films would change

06:18slightly, but the Volturi represent a very, you know, kind of dark, sinister sect of vampire.

06:27And so I think that the costumes were meant to be kind of menacing and very

06:32cloaky and high neck and lots of capes and boots that buttoned all the way up to the knee and, and

06:39sort of Baroque in a way, you know, they're kind of stuck in a old Italian

06:45mausoleum type place.

06:48Um, and they don't leave very often.

06:50I also had like the Volturi, like crest necklace that we always wore.

06:55But no, I mean, listen, I don't think you can get further away from

06:59who I am or any other character than, than playing a vampire.

07:04Um, so it was fun to kind of dive into the super pale, pale skin and of course the red

07:11contact lenses and, and kind of playing up the, the creepiness.

07:17And I did, I've seen some Halloween costumes of people dressed up as Jane,

07:20and that's always like funny to see.

07:23The Runaways, I played Cherie Curry, the lead singer of The Runaways.

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

07:35The white corset, of course, when she performs Cherry Bomb, the fishnets.

07:39And Cherie was a young girl in a sort of man's world and man's industry.

07:47And she, the way that she took ownership of her power was to, to shock and surprise.

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

07:56Um, and, and that was kind of how she survived that sort of tough, tough rock and roll scene.

08:02It was also exciting to get to play with that kind of

08:05crazy seventies makeup and, and, uh, glam rock stuff and, and the costumes.

08:10And I actually got to keep all the wardrobe from that film.

08:13So I, I have it.

08:15The alienist, Sarah Howard in the first season, she's not a detective yet,

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

08:22So detective Sarah Howard, um, you know, a huge part of the alienist was the world,

08:28the costumes, the sets, you know, really transporting the cast and the crew back to that time.

08:36And then of course, you know, hopefully transporting the audience, watching it.

08:40Um, for the first season, the costume designer was Michael Kaplan, who was like,

08:44you know, a genius and has done so many.

08:48costumes that when people think of movies, they think of some of his costumes.

08:52And for the second season, Rudy Mance, who has worked with Michael a lot,

08:55he was the costume designer.

08:56So it was great.

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

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

09:02And Michael kind of led the way for Rudy to take over when we did the series of the second book.

09:08If there were 70 buttons on my jacket, they weren't facades with snaps underneath.

09:16They were unfortunately some days really 70 buttons.

09:21Um, but I got very good at knowing what I could take off when I'm like,

09:27are you going to see, are you going to see this in this shot?

09:29Nope.

09:29Okay.

09:30I can take these off early.

09:31You know what I mean?

09:31Like, oh, I take certain pieces off.

09:33And then at the end of the day on, on, on series like that, the person who kind of gets you dressed

09:39and helps you get undressed in the morning and the night time is so important.

09:42You become so close with them.

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

09:46And I would, they would say I was done.

09:49And I would be kind of disrobing as I'm walking back to my trailer, um, to get changed.

09:55And Dora would be behind kind of, you know, I'd be like, oh, here, we can take this off.

10:00I could take this off.

10:00I would do everything aside from like what I needed to keep on to not be naked in front of everybody.

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

10:09And so it would be rough.

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

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

10:18The first lady, um, I play Susan Ford, the youngest child and only daughter of

10:25president Gerald Ford and his wife, Betty Ford.

10:29So excited about the project and to be working with Michelle and

10:33to recreate the mother daughter bond between Betty and Susan.

10:36I think it was a very formative relationship in Betty's life.

10:40And as I said, I am Sam working with Michelle has been such a formative experience in my life

10:47and getting to know her as an adult and spend, um, you know, off time with her as well was

10:53such a dream.

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

10:58The costume designer scene, the looks are to a tee, some photos of the Ford family,

11:04like every detail she recreated.

11:07I'm so, so excited to, to see it in its entirety and, and to see the other women's stories.

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

11:15So, um, Betty was first, so Michelle and I were filming first and then it was

11:21Viola's Michelle Obama block and, and then Jillian's Eleanor Roosevelt block at the end.

11:26So, um, you know, there's so much of the show that the people in the other blocks don't get to see.

11:31So I can't wait to see it all, um, woven together and, and see the, the great,

11:38great women behind, you know, the great men.

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