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TRANSCRIPT OF DAKOTA FANNING GUEST APPEARING ON THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH CRAIG KILLBORN
August 14, 2003
(ROUGHLY DONE BY LULU)

[opens with doing-the-dishes scene from uptown girls]
Craig Kilborn: Please welcome Dakota Fanning, ladies and gentlemen.
Dakota comes out and waves, everyone cheers.
CK: Hello there. So, nice to meet you young lady.
DF: Oh, nice to meet you too!
CK: Thank you for the gift, you gave me gifts back stage.
DF: Oh, no problem
CK: They're expensive.
[DF laughs]
CK: Did you buy those or did mommy buy those?
DF: Oh no, we picked em out, i picked em out.
CK: Congratulations.
DF: Thank you.
CK: um, well, your nine years old, I assume you haven't seen our little program because it's on so late.
DF: Actually I do watch it.
CK: You do?! Even if you're lying, thank you.
DF: No i do, I really do! Seriously, I do!
CK: It's funny isn't it?
DF: Yeah, it's great! I love it!
[audience laughs]
CK: So, you're nine years old, I had a golden retriever as a kid, do you have any pets?
DF: I don't have any pets, but I want a chihuahua, a maltese and a yorkshire terrier.
CK:Oh, we're kinda greedy aren't we?
[DF laughs]
CK: Have you ever had pets before?
DF: Well i had three fish, and they all died. A pinky, bluey and flounder and they all died.
CK: Did you forget to water them?
DF: [laughs]They all died, and I had two cats, a white one named Momo who was 22 and he died of old age, and that was my first word, Momo. And then Colby was 12 and got caught in the garage. We told the painters not to let the garage down and we came home and he was hanging by his tail. It was terrible!
[audience aww's]
CK: So he passed away too.
DF: Yeah.
CK: Maybe we should take a break and not get dogs for a couple years.
DF: Yeah! [laughs]
CK: Sounds like we're having some bad luck with the pets.
DF: I know, [laughing]but I want those really bad.
CK: Well, I'm sure you can get those right?
DF: Well my mom likes things...clean, like me, but i haven't done good in that area with dogs.
CK: So she won't get you the dogs?
DF: No, on my christmas list, last year I said stuffed maltese, but would prefer real. <laughs>
CK: Did she do that, did she listen?
DF: yeah, yeah. But I didn't get the stuffed one!!
[laughs a lot]
CK: wow, sounds like mommy's not spoiling you is she?
DF: No, no.
CK: Now, do you go to school? At nine?
DF: Well I'm home schooled.
CK: Oh, they go to you?
DF: Well I have a teacher that comes with me on all the movies that I do.
CK: are you a good student?
DF: Yeah.
CK: If you're a good student, you should get a dog!
DF: I know, I want one so bad! <looks sad>
CK: OK, let's change the subject of the dogs, what do you learn in school?
DF: Well my favorite subjects are reading and history and um, I've been reading since I was two and I love doing that and we have health, science, history, reading and language.
CK: and the same teacher teaches all this? aaw but you need a special teahcer for 'health'
DF: Mm Hm.
CK: Oh that's nice to have.
[DF laughs]
DF: Well my teacher Jan comes to all my movies and teaches all the subjects.
CK: You're allowed to call her by her first name?
DF: Yes.
CK: We had to call em Mrs. Anderson or something.
DF: well her last name's serwonka.
CK: oh that's tough.
DF: She always tells kids to think of willy wonka and he got knighted so it's Sir Willy Wonka, Sir Wonka.
CK: Oh, I see, smart, smart. Do you want to tell us the wallet story?
DF: Yes, the wallet story.
CK: Now, this is true?
DF: Yes, totally. Totally true.
[Dakota tells a story about how she and her mom and dad found a wallet in a cab in new york and she thought it was a potato and then asked the guy where the guy with the wallet was dropped off so they went there and the bus boy asked who they were and they told them him that they were returning the wallet and so they went in and found the guy and the bus boy said I found your wallet and so the guy gave the bus boy a tip. Then, they went back outside to the cab and said we returned the wallet! and it was a different cab "so he was like 'great..'"]
CK: Well we're running out of time, so tell them your favorite restaurant that you like to go to.
DF: Panda express, Del taco and taco bell.
C: Ok, and you are so well versed in del taco and taco bell that you can tell the difference between the tacos.
DF: well taco bell, the meat is greasier.
[audience laughs]
DF: We go to both places all the time.
CK: OK, these are two tacos...(brings out a plate with two tacos on it).
DF: are they del taco or...
CK: You have to guess, young lady. It's either taco bell or del taco.
DF: ok, let's see <she sniffs one of the tacos> I can tell...do I have to eat it? Cuz I know which one it is.
CK: Oh no, you don't have to eat it, not if your watching your figure
DF: I'll eat it! [takes a bite]
[audience laughs and cheers]
CK: what do you think?
DF: Taco Bell
CK: You sure? [DF nods] yes, that is correct. Well, we're out of time. Here's a cloth napkin, I'm sure they have those at taco bell. Uptown girls comes out this friday, please give a hand to Dakota Fanning.
[Dakota waves]

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