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Here’s Dakota Fanning looking all grown up in her slick navy blue one-piece on Monday, while promoting her freshly premiered sci-fi thriller, Push on the Late Show with David Letterman. 

In Push, Dakota plays a 14-year-old psychic whose predictive
powers – and abilities to protect the world from lethal war – are
magnified by alcohol.  Naturally.  Great excuse to hit the bottle, right?   

Here are some of the highlights from Dakota’s recent interview with Parade Magazine about her provocative new role – and then some. 

On carrying around a gun:

‘It’s definitely for protection. It’s not like she’s slinging around
a
gun and killing people. I just think that as you get older, there’s
more things that you can do in films.  My character is a true
14-year-old — kind of rebellious.  She has a very sassy attitude and
that was very fun to get to explore in this film. She says and does
things that I never would.’

On those Twilight rumors:

‘It’s definitely being discussed but it’s not set in stone. It would be really cool to be a part of Twilight
if it works out…I would be a vampire, which could really prove that I
can be sweet, little Dakota Fanning and then I can be something
different on the screen.’

On being starstruck by Britney Spears:

‘I remember when I was very little my idol was Britney Spears. I
had just come to California and that’s just who I wanted to meet. So I
was in a store and she walked in and my jaw just fell to the floor. I
started like sweating. I could not believe that I was meeting her. She
told me that I was very cute. And I lost it — I was so excited.’

Awww.  Ok, seriously, this totally explains Dakota’s fascination with
super powers.  Any Britney music video is like a miniature sci-fi
movie.  But with a decent soundtrack.  And patent leather.

Click any photo to view all 20+ photos of Dakota Fanning in the gallery!

Here’s Dakota Fanning looking all grown up in her slick navy blue one-piece on Monday, while promoting her freshly premiered sci-fi thriller, Push on the Late Show with David Letterman. 

In Push, Dakota plays a 14-year-old psychic whose predictive
powers – and abilities to protect the world from lethal war – are
magnified by alcohol.  Naturally.  Great excuse to hit the bottle, right?   

Here are some of the highlights from Dakota’s recent interview with Parade Magazine about her provocative new role – and then some. 

On carrying around a gun:

‘It’s definitely for protection. It’s not like she’s slinging around
a
gun and killing people. I just think that as you get older, there’s
more things that you can do in films.  My character is a true
14-year-old — kind of rebellious.  She has a very sassy attitude and
that was very fun to get to explore in this film. She says and does
things that I never would.’

On those Twilight rumors:

‘It’s definitely being discussed but it’s not set in stone. It would be really cool to be a part of Twilight
if it works out…I would be a vampire, which could really prove that I
can be sweet, little Dakota Fanning and then I can be something
different on the screen.’

On being starstruck by Britney Spears:

‘I remember when I was very little my idol was Britney Spears. I
had just come to California and that’s just who I wanted to meet. So I
was in a store and she walked in and my jaw just fell to the floor. I
started like sweating. I could not believe that I was meeting her. She
told me that I was very cute. And I lost it — I was so excited.’

Awww.  Ok, seriously, this totally explains Dakota’s fascination with
super powers.  Any Britney music video is like a miniature sci-fi
movie.  But with a decent soundtrack.  And patent leather.Check out all 20+ photos of Dakota Fanning in the gallery!