Who's the grown-up here, anyway?

Twelve-year-old actress patiently tries to explain to overzealous concern trolls the difference between reality and make-believe.

"It's not really happening," Fanning said of a rape. "It's a movie, and it's called acting. I'm not going through anything. Cody and Isabelle aren't going through anything, their characters are.

"And for me, when it's done it's done," she said. "I don't even think about it anymore."

Were these would-be guardians this alarmed when Fanning was kidnapped by criminals, pursued by aliens, and menaced by a deranged father? Where were they then, huh? Please, won't somebody think of the children!

Oh...movies?

All of them?

Never mind.

(Cross-posted.)


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