Dakota Fanning will never compete with her actress sister. The 17-year-old star’s younger sister Elle, 13, has now also established her own film career but the elder sibling insists they will never be screen rivals.
She said, “We see ourselves as two completely different entities. It won’t really affect us because... I mean, we don’t even look alike.” Dakota describes herself as a “sensible, logical person” and admits she admires Elle’s more care-free attitude to life.
The Runaways star added to the new UK issue of Elle magazine, “She is incredibly free-spirited and totally wears her heart on her sleeve, you know exactly what she is thinking by taking one look at her. She’s just incredible. I don’t know, I wish I could be more like her sometimes.” Despite insisting they are not rivals, Dakota admits it has been strange to see Elle working so hard while she has been relaxing at home. She said, “Usually it’s her sitting in pyjamas waving goodbye as I go off some place but this last year it’s been me at home by myself in sweatpants saying, ‘Bye Elle’ as she goes off somewhere all dressed up.”
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Hugh to play Houdini
Hugh Jackman is set to return to Broadway to play Harry Houdini. The Real Steel actor will star as the famed illusionist in Houdini which will be penned by West Wing scribe Aaron Sorkin and is set to hit the stage in 2013 or 2014. Stephen Shwartz, who wrote the music for Wicked, will provide music and lyrics.
Meanwhile, Hugh’s latest Broadway role finished recently after raking in more than $2 million in its final week. The one-man show saw the actor sing songs from musicals backed up by an 18-piece orchestra in Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway.
The 43-year-old star, who last performed on Broadway in 2009 when he starred in a non-musical role alongside Casino Royale actor Daniel Craig in Keith Huff’s police thriller A Steady Rain, has previously taken his show to San Francisco and Toronto. He won an Outstanding Actor in a Musical accolade at the Tony Awards in 2004 for his Broadway performance of The Boy From Oz.