Dakota Fanning Shares Working With Younger Sister Elle For The Nightingale Will Be 'Special': Last Thing That We...

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Fanning has been working in Hollywood for over two decades, but she's never acted with her sister Elle Fanning. The actresses both made their big-screen debuts on I Am Sam (2001) as children. Elle played the younger version of her sister in the feature film. Now, for the first time, the Fanning sisters are set to star together in the film adaptation of Kristin Hannah’s book The Nightingale. Dakota shared details about the upcoming film directed by Michael Morris.

Dakota Fanning reveals why working with sister Elle will be special for first time

Since 2019, the Fanning sisters have been attached to The Nightingale; the actresses are set to begin filming for the feature in 2026. At a press conference for her latest, All Her Fault, Dakota shared her excitement over working with Elle for the first time. Dakota stated, "I am just as excited as everyone else seems to be. I'm happy. I think we're both happy that people are so excited. I feel like we have a lot to still do to get... You know what I mean? There's a lot to still do, but it's very fun, and we love getting to share everything. And this is the last thing that we haven't shared. This is the last piece of ourselves that I think we don't know about one another. We've never worked together. We've never been in a scene together. It'll be the last thing that we share with each other, so it'll be very special.

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ALSO READ: All Her Fault's Dakota Fanning On Working Alongside Succession's Sarah Snook: Lot Of Stories Pit Women Against....Revealing that The Nightingale will be filmed in Europe, Dakota also discussed why she was drawn to the book adaptation. She said, "What we like about the story is I obviously love the story as a whole, but I think the characters, when you read the book and in the script, they have a lot apart as well as together. The times when the characters come together are very poignant and kind of important, obviously, but they also have two separate journeys that they also kind of go on, so I think that that's something that we have liked. Then in terms of just working together, we are going to have to see. I think there's going to be maybe some nervous giggles at first, but I think I'm not too worried about it. I think it's one of those things you just have to go for." Hannah's novel was published in 2025 and follows two sisters who embark on separate, dangerous paths during World War II in the fight for survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France. Produced by TriStar, The Nightingale will be released in theatres on February 12, 2027.