SANTA MONICA – Dakota Fanning says that given a choice between her acting career or becoming a mother, she’d choose becoming a mother.
The “Ripley” star has been acting since childhood, becoming the youngest Screen Actors Guild Award nominee at the age of eight for her role in the 2001 film “I Am Sam.” Now 30, she says she has set up her life so that she’ll always have the “option” to have kids when the opportunity arises.
“Being an actor is a huge part of my identity. I don’t really know who I am without it,” Fanning revealed in a recent interview with Porter.
“But I also have a desire to set up my life and career so that I always have a choice,” she said. “Having kids is probably more important to me than anything, even being an actor. If somebody said I had to choose, I would choose having kids. I’m one of those people who has always felt that pull.”
Foreseeing the possibility that she won’t have as much time and energy to take on projects once she has children, she says she’s loading up on experiences now.
“I’m trying to push myself to keep saying yes to things that make me uncomfortable, to keep going to places for long periods of time that maybe I’m scared to do because — God willing — one day, it won’t be as easy,” she said.
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