Elle Fanning swears she wasn’t expecting an Oscar nomination for her work in Neon’s Sentimental Value. It’s a line actors have repeated frequently on the awards circuit; however, in Fanning’s case, it appears to ring true — best evidenced by her plans the night before and during the nominations announcement Jan. 22.
“I was not watching it,” Fanning candidly tells The Hollywood Reporter, admitting that she had talked herself out of thinking she would get nominated. She and her sister, actress Dakota Fanning, were both at their mom’s house when the nominations were announced.
“Dakota and I had gone out the night before. We had quite a late night,” she explains, laughing, adding that she was “dead asleep” when the nominations came out in the early morning hours but was awakened by her phone lighting up. She assumed the slew of congratulatory texts were related to the movie in general,…
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