Dakota Fanning Watches Adorable Home Video of Her and Sister Elle Fanning Dressed Up for Halloween as Kids

Mar. 15, 2025

Dakota Fanningis taking a trip down memory lane with her sisterElle Fanning!

Dakota, who recentlycelebrated her 30th birthday, appeared onThe Tonight Show Starring Jimmy FallonMonday to discuss her recent birthday and upcoming Netflix seriesRipley. During her interview,Jimmy Fallondisplayed a throwback home video of Dakota and Elle, 25, as children preparing for Halloween one year.

Dakota could be seen holding her hands to her face and laughing as the video played; it shows her and Elle, then a toddler, putting makeup on as Dakota snatches an eyebrow tool away from her younger sister.

“Hey, that’s my stuff. I have to do my eyebrows,” Dakota tells Elle, who is dressed like a clown, in the video. “What is this?” Elle asks about the tool, to which Dakota responds: “It’s for your eyebrows, and you’re not allowed to use it. Go put your wig back on!”

“It’s so sad! It’s so sad! I actually remember that moment but I don’t remember being that bossy and that mean,” she told Fallon, 49, after viewing the home video.

Dakota Fanning on ‘The Tonight Show’ on March 25, 2024.Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty

Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty

“That’s my thing: I’ll say to my family, ‘I don’t know what the problem is, I’m super relaxed, I’m super easy-going,’ " she joked. “And they’re all like, ‘That’s not true.’ "

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Elle shared an adorable tribute to her older sister tocelebrate Dakota’s birthdayon Feb. 23, writing alongside several photos she shared to Instagram that Dakota “has dreamt of turning 30 since she was a teenager.”

Dakota Fanning (left) and Elle Fanning on Dec. 18, 2023.Bruce Glikas/WireImage

Bruce Glikas/WireImage

Dakota expanded on Elle’s comment about her dreams of turning 30 for years onThe Tonight Show, telling Fallon that she has “always rounded up my ages” in response to her and Elle’s mother,Hannah Joy Arrington.

“M response to her is always, ‘Mom, I’m almost a 30-year-old woman, you cannot be walking in my bedroom at three in the morning because I could be doing anything in here,’ " she explained, after noting her mother “will call 100 times” and visit her home if she does not answer her phone.

“I’ve been saying that for my entire 20s,” she added. “And now I’m like, ‘Oh God, I am a 30-year-old woman, so now I have to say ‘I’m almost a 35-year-old woman’ next time she does it.”

source: people.com