Dakota Fanning Was 'The First Choice', Alyson Stoner Says

Dakota Fanning chats on her phone after attending classes at New York University on Thursday afternoon (March 12) in New York City.

In a recent interview with Zooey Magazine‘s As We Are portrait series, actress Alyson Stoner about being the “second choice” to Dakota, with whom she shared an agent with when she was younger.

“My agent knew that I would make her less money. She would offer Dakota‘s name first. I remember sitting in the casting agent’s office and would hear my agent on the phone talking about her lunch meeting with Dakota that day. I knew that I was the second fiddle…the second choice,” she shared.

Alyson added, “That immediately makes you criticize parts about yourself; it makes you keep trying to figure out what takes you out of the running before the casting agents even know you. It made me wonder why I was void of chance. I kind of wrestled against that with myself. I think for some people, it destroys them in the industry and in life. For others, they see that there is some injustice and proceed to rise above it. Hopefully the people who do rise above it, do it to for themselves to set an example for others and then they seek ways to ripple that effect to the rest of the community.”

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