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TRANSCRIPT OF DAKOTA FANNING GUEST APPEARING ON THE LATE LATE SHOW WITH CRAIG KILBORN
April 29, 2004
(ROUGHLY DONE BY SARAH)

Craig: Our next guest has made four films in the last few years and three of them have opened as the number one film in America, including her latest, Man On Fire.

*Clip of Man on Fire shows*

Craig: Here she is, Dakota Fanning! (applause)
Dakota: Hello!
Craig: You’re the best!
Dakota: Thank you so much!
Craig: Good energy!
Dakota: Thanks!
Craig: Good energy.
Dakota: Thank you!
Craig: Sit still! No I’m just kidding. (Dakota and audience laugh) So you filmed the movie, ah, in Mexico. Had you ever been to Mexico before?
Dakota: No I had never been out the country, except, you know out of the United States, except Canada… (audience cheers) Which, you know, is similar…(cheers and claps with the audience). Um, but, you know which is kind of similar to the United States but when I went to Mexico, it was totally different.
Craig: Totally different, isn’t it.
Dakota: So, um, it was so fun being there for five months and…
Craig: Five months is a long time!
Dakota: Yeah.
Craig: Now what did you do in your downtime? I heard you went shopping or something?
Dakota: Um, well we went to the pyramids.
Craig: The pyramids…
Dakota: The Mexican pyramids. And, and we climbed the pyramids, and um so we climbed up and we looked around and we came down, and um, there was this guy, you know, selling all this stuff and you know we were looking, and he had this mask which was made out of like (unintelligible) or something…
Craig: Yeah, it’s over my head, I don’t know what that is (Dakota and audience laughs) Dakota: So, so he was like “Ohh, very pretty,” you know, “Very nice…” (audience laughter) And so, we were like, “Oh yeah, it’s great!” and he was like, we were like “Oh how much is it?” you know, like. “5000 pesos”.
Craig: 5000 pesos?
Dakota: Which is like $500!
Craig: That’s an expensive mask!
Dakota: Well…
Craig: Where I come from that’s an expensive mask (Dakota and audience laugh)
Dakota: Well we were like “Oh it’s very pretty but, ah, no grazios,” and we left him and you know we walked, and everywhere we went – we went in, like, little shops – he was right here, he was like polishing it, you know he got out the rag…(audience laughter)
Craig: The guy with the mask? Dakota: …he was polishing the mask, he was like “Oooh, yes!” (audience laughter) And he kept on like lowering the price, and lowering the price, and finally, you know, and we were like “No, grazios, it’s very pretty but no…” And he was polishing – “Oh nice, very nice! (unintelligible).” And so we were like “Thank you,” but um, so then we were leaving and we were getting in the car and he was like, getting in the car with us…
Craig: Oh my lord…
Dakota: …going back to the hotel, and we were like, and he finally said “Okay, 1000 pesos,” which is $100.
Craig: Okay, dropped it down.
Dakota: So, we were like “Okay, alright, we’ll, we’ll have it, we’ll take it,” so…
Craig: We’ll take it.
Dakota: Now we have it, but the driver said – who is from Mexico – “Do you know why he wanted you to buy it so bad?” We were like “Noooo, please tell us!” and so, he said “You know, you were his first customer that day.” Because we got there really early to climb, so there was a bunch of crowds and stuff…
Craig: Right, gotta get to a pyramid early, right.
Dakota: Right, right. (laughter) So, and um, it’s bad luck if he doesn’t sell the first customer something.
Craig: Oh, I didn’t know that.
Dakota: And, we don’t have the mask, we don’t know where it is… (laughs and buries face in hands)
Craig: A hundred…(audience laughter) Dakota!
Dakota: We don’t know where the mask is!
Craig: Where’d you, where’d you put it? Well that’s irresponsible!
Dakota: (still laughing) I don’t know where it is now! (audience laughs) So, I feel bad, now the guy’s gonna have bad luck, like maybe, I don’t know. (audience laughs) I don’t know, we don’t have it! So I don’t know what’s gonna happen!
Craig: It’s gonna be okay, it’s gonna be okay!
Dakota: I know.
Craig: That’s a good story though, that’s wild. Now I know, you swam a lot in this movie, right?
Dakota: Yes, I did.
Craig: Now did you know how to swim before?
Dakota: Um, I did, but um, I had to do a lot a lot of training, you know I had to get really fast, and I had a teacher here in California, named Braum…
Craig: Named Braum?
Dakota: Braum Tester.
Craig: Braum Tester, okay… (Dakota laughs) Is this a man or a woman?
Dakota: (still laughing) Man. And um in Mexico I had a swimming teacher named Alec, and um, he didn’t really understand that we were filming a movie. So he said “This stroke will help you when you train for a triathalon maybe.” (laughter) And so I was like “Uhhh, okay, Alec,” you know.
Craig: So they went pretty hard on you, hey?
Dakota: Yeah, he was like, “Do you want to swim like a dolphin?” then he would go like a dolphin! (mimes, to laughter) It was so funny, I was like “Dolphins, whoooo! Dolphin’s good.” But when I was also learning the piano, and Spanish.
Craig: Yeah?
Dakota: I have to, I have to tell you something in Spanish…
Craig: Tell me, talk to me, I’m here.
Dakota: Okay, okay - *talks in Spanish* (applause)
Craig: Oh si!
Dakota: Which says… (audience still cheering, and Dakota laughs)
Craig: What did you say?
Dakota: ‘Your hair looks good tonight’.
Craig: Well thank you!
Dakota: You’re welcome!
Craig: I…that means it doesn’t look good some nights, but thank you!
Dakota: No! (laughs) Craig: Thank you very much. Now wait, I have good news, I want to hear about this: everytime you come here, you’re obsessed – you love coming here, by the way -
Dakota: Yes! Oh, it’s so fun, it’s great! (audience cheer)
Craig: - because we always, we always give her like gifts, right? What, what did we give you last time?
Dakota: A Fifi and Romeo gift certificate.
Craig: Because, because you want a dog badly.
Dakota: I want a dog so badly! But the dog has changed! I don’t want a Pomeranian.
Craig: You don’t want one?
Dakota: *shakes head* Not a Pomeranian.
Craig: Oh, take it away. Take the dog away! (Dakota laughs)
Dakota: No, no! No, but now I want a long haired Chihuahua.
Craig: How come? Why’d you change your mind?
Dakota: Well I went to the Westminster, because my Uncle Henry is the superintendent…
Craig: Sure.
Dakota: And um we went to a bunch of dog shows and everything. And I fell in love with this long haired Chihuahua named Fancy.
Craig: Named Fancy.
Dakota: And Fancy has the same colored hair as me… (audience laughter)
Craig: Oh very pretty!
Dakota: And um so now, that color is called ‘Light Fawn’.
Craig: *points to Dakota’s hair* This is called ‘Light Fawn’?
Dakota: Well the hair color of the dog, I don’t know about me. (laughter)
Craig: Wait, so, I thought it was blonde, it’s light fawn?
Dakota: It’s light flawn, light fawn. And um so now I have to get a long haired Chihuahua just like Fancy with my same hair color, light fawn.
Craig: But your Mom may not buy you a dog…
Dakota: Well. Well she is kind of leaning towards it. And she’s thinking about getting two, because my sister doesn’t know what she wants! She wants like a short haired, then a long haired, but then like a smooth coat, and then the one with the hair.
Craig: Just give your sister…(audience laughter) …yeah. Give the sister the mask.
Dakota: And then she wants a white cat! With a pink nose.
Craig: Say, say again?
Dakota: She wants a white cat with a pink nose now but then it changed, like a Chihuahua again, so…she’s gonna get two!
Craig: That’s amazing.
Dakota: I’m like so excited! I didn’t think we were gonna get, like, any!
Craig: How exciting is life right now? (audience cheers) Are, are you gonna name the dog?
Dakota: I’m gonna name the…
Craig: This is, this is true, before you even get a dog, you have a name, you think of a name. Like Spot or Rover or… (Dakota laughs)
Dakota: No I’m going to name it London. (audience “awws”)
Craig: London?
Dakota: Like England.
Craig: That’s, wait a second, that’s a city, you can’t name a dog after a city…(Dakota laughs)
Dakota: No I love the name.
Craig: That’s too confusing, that’s...
Dakota: No it’s so pretty - London…
Craig: No it’s very clever, it’s very clever. So, London. “Hey London! London calling! London calling!”
Dakota: *pretends to call a dog* London!
Craig: That’s great. Have you been to London, is that why you did that?
Dakota: No I’ve never been to Europe!
Craig: Oh that’s right. (laughter) *Pretends to take something out of jacket pocket* Guess what we have for you right here? I’m just kidding.
Dakota: Oh (laughs).
Craig: Alright, you got to come back, we’re out of time, you got to come back.
Dakota: Well thank you.
Craig: Will you have the dog next time, or not? London?
Dakota: I don’t know…I hope so!
Craig: So do I.
Dakota: I hope so. I’ll bring it if I do.
Craig: Okay, good to see you again… Dakota: Thank you for having me on your show!
Craig: …Man on Fire, number one movie in America, Dakota Fanning! We’ll be right back! (applause and cheers)

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