Like The Break Of Dawn

Elle Fanning sat down with Scarlett Johansson for a new interview featured in Interview Magazine. The interview was done this past March while Scarlett was in New York and Elle was in Los Angeles.

In the interview, the duo talk about Elle’s relationship with school, if she studied acting, era she would want to live in, Maleficent, and so much more. Highlights can be found below.

On school: “I was homeschooled up until third grade, and I liked it because my grandma taught me, and I loved being with my grandma. But then I didn’t really have any friends, none my own age. So my mom put me in school in fourth grade.

It’s cool because I’ve realized things about myself that I wouldn’t have if I weren’t in school. My favorite subject is science, which is so weird because I would think that my favorite subject would be, I don’t know, something more artistic. I only have two more years left now because I’m a sophomore. But I’m also excited to get out of school. [laughs]”

On if she studied acting: “I never did. Obviously, my sister started first, and she didn’t study, so I don’t. My parents are not in the business at all. They were athletes. So they also didn’t really know if you were supposed to do that. An agent was just like, ‘Go out on this audition,’ so they just would. It was a whatever-happens-happens type of thing.”

On the era she would want to live in: “I would like to be a teenager in the ’60s or ’70s. I think that would be so fun. I was just hearing stories from my dad, what they would do when they were young. It just seemed so free. I was looking at all these skateboard pictures of random kids in the ’70s and it looked so cool, just roaming around. We can’t really roam around now. Everyone’s like, ‘It’s so dangerous.'”

To read the full interview click here. Elle’s new movie, Maleficent will open in theaters on May 31!