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TRANSCRIPT OF DAKOTA FANNING GUEST APPEARING ON THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO
July 30, 2003
(ROUGHLY DONE BY SARA)

Jay Leno: Alright my next guest 9 year old actress who’s appeared in such films as "I am Sam" and "Sweet Home Alabama" she’s currently starting in "Uptown Girls" which comes out August 16, please welcome Dakota Fanning.
[Audience Applause]

J: Dakota Fanning! Hi Dakota. How you doing?
D: Hey!
J: How are you?
D: Hi! (To Roseanne:) Nice to meet you!
J: Nice to see you!
D: Oh! Good to see you too!
J: You look very pretty!
D: Oh, thank you!
J: Now Roseanne just said that she just learned that if you're nice to people, they'll be nice to you. You probably knew that already, didn't you?
D: Yeah. *LAUGHS*
J: You kind of learned that. It takes people longer sometimes. When did you first learn that? You probably learned that real young.
D: Um, yeah, yeah. *LAUGHS*
J: Yeah, okay. Now I love your name Dakota. That's a cute name. Where does that come from?
D: Well, my dad just always just liked that name. He liked it. And then, um, my mom came up with my first name, which is Hannah. And I'm Hannah Dakota Fanning.
J: Oh, okay.
D: And, um yeah, everybody always asks me if I'm North or South Dakota.
J: Oh, does that get annoying?
D: Well, I always say I'm South because I'm from Georgia.
J: Oh, that's very good.
D: Yeah!
J: Now I hear that you love names. Because you always carry like a book of like baby names.
D: Of baby names, yeah. Well, I carry it everywhere I go. And on all the locations that I go on. And I mark all the names that I wouldn't mind being named.
J: Ok, like what's a name that you would like? You have Dakota, which is pretty, but what else would you like?
D: well, even some of the names, even if I don't really like them, but I wouldn't like hate the name if I was named it.
J: Like, would you like to be "Beatrice"?
D: *HARD LAUGHTER*
J: Beatrice. Oh, Beatrice. Beatrice. Excuse me, Beatrice. Can I ask you, do you like that one?
D: Um, it's alright.
J: It's okay.
D: It's good, yeah.
J: How about "Roseanne"?
D: *HARD LAUGHTER*
J: That's a nice...
D: Yeah.
J: What's a name you would like? If you had to pick your own name right tomorrow. We're giving new names... everybody.
D: Everybody's new names.
J: What would you like to be?
D: Me? I would be... Um, there's so many names. I would probably have four names.
J: Alright, well, which ones?
D: Like, um, Jane.
J & R: Jane?
J: That's pretty easy. Jane? (Says something I can't understand)
R: Do you want to change your name?
D: No. That's my grandmothers name. Mary Jane.
R: Why do you think about it so much? Changing your name?
D: I don't really know. I've just always liked it. I've always liked names. And that's the first thing I look on the script is what the character's named.
R: That's cool.
D: Kind of freaky.
R: Are you thinking of names you're going to name your kids? Are you going to have kids?
D: Yeah.
R: Are you thinking of those names?
D: Yeah. Oh, it changes every day though. Yeah, it does. It really does.
J: It changes everyday. Well, when you have plenty of time, I would like to hear them.
D: Yeah.
J: Now I heard that you can name all the presidents of the United States. Is that right? First off, I think it should be fair. Roseanne, can you name all of the presidents?
R: Yes, I can! But I think you should give her a shot.
D: *LAUGHS*
J: Okay.
D: Okay.
J: Okay, let's see. Go ahead.
D: (Rambles out all the presidents in under twenty seconds!!)
J: Oh, that's very good! That's very good. That's very good.
D: Yeah.
J: That's very good.
D: My teacher...
R: Wait. Did you say Gore?
D: No.
R: Oh, I thought you said Gore.
D: No. *LAUGHS*
J: She's trying to trip you up.
D: Yeah.
J: I heard you became a vegetarian.
D: Um. Yes, but it didn't last an hour. Because, um, well theres...
J: You were a vegetarian for an hour?
D: Well, not even. Because there's this story of, we were in New York doing the movie Uptown GIrls. And we ate pizza like almost every day. The whole time. And so we went to this place that we went almost every day. And we order our food that we noramally order, and sit down, and we're eating, and then we leave.
And so, when we go home, my Mom and Dad are saying, "Did you see that pig roasting in the oven?" ,on a stick, going round and round, with the head... And I said, "Um, no I didn't." And me and my sister cried for two hours.
J: Wow, longer than you were a vegetarian.
D: Yeah. *LAUGHS* Because there's a pig in the movie Uptown Girls. There, um, it's played. There's one pig in the movie, but it's played by two pigs.
J: Yeah, I know the rest.
D: Yeah.
J: Like with kids, when they have twins. You know the story.
D: And then, so we felt so bad, because...
J: That you became a vegetarian for an hour.
D: Well, we became a vegetarian. But that didn't last very long, because, um, I don't like vegetables. Or salad, nothing like that!
J: You know what you do? You take a bite out of twelve different doughnuts.
D: *LAUGHS*
J: Now, tell us about your movie Uptown Girls. Tell us who you play.
D: Well, I play Ray. And she is this sort of uptight girl, you know.
J: Sort of stuck up?
D: Well, she doesn't really know how to be a kid. And Molly is this sort of magical character who sort of comes into her life and touches other people's lives.
J: And that's Brittany Murphy.
D: And that's Brittany Murphey. Played by Brittany Murphey.
J: Well, here's a scene. Here's a scene. This is where you first meet on the street, right? You're going to find out that she's, she's going to be your new nanny.
D: She...
R: Oh, look your head. It pops up.
J: Let's take a look.
S: ...is my new nanny.
(THE CLIP SHOWS)
D: *LAUGHS*
J: What a little snob. Dakota, you're a terrific actress.
D: Thank you!
J: We always like having you on!
D: Thank you!
J: Please come see us again!
D: I will! Definately! Thank you!

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