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\u201cI hid turning 21 while we filmed,\u201d he said. \u201cBecause I remember you were supposed to celebrate that birthday, right? 21. \u2026 I don\u2019t want people to know how old I am.’\u201d<\/p>\n
The now 41-year-old actor played a 15-year-old in the film.<\/p>\n
In an interview on \u201cThe Tonight Show<\/a>\u201d in 2018, Dano recalled an incident that happened while the movie was being filmed. Directors Jonathan Dayton<\/a> and Valerie Faris<\/a> suggested…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Paul Dano turned 21 while filming the 2006 dramedy \u201cLittle Miss Sunshine\u201d \u2014 but didn\u2019t tell the rest of the cast, the actor revealed in an interview with People published Saturday. \u201cI remember being like, \u2018Oh, I don\u2019t \u2026 how should I [tell people]?,\u201d he explained. \u201cI hid turning 21 while we filmed,\u201d he said. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2271705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2271704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Paul-Dano-Reveals-He-Turned-21-on-the-\u2018Little-Miss.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2271704"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2271706,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271704\/revisions\/2271706"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2271705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2271704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2271704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2271704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}