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TRANSCRIPT OF DAKOTA FANNING GUEST APPEARING ON THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO
November 10, 2003
(ROUGHLY DONE BY Gracie)

Jay Leno: Welcome Back! My next guest is a nine year old actress, you know her from her films, such as I am Sam, Sweet Home Alabama, and Uptown Girls. Currently she is starring with Mike Myers in Dr, Suess, The Cat in the Hat, which comes out November 21st. Please welcome Dakota Fanning!
{She walks in}
Jay Leno: Hello sweetheart! Good to see you!
Dakota: Good to see you too!
Jay Leno: Hey somethings different, let me see that smile. Hey what happened to those teeth! Where are your teeth!
Dakota: Well, I had them pulled a month ago actually.
Jay Leno: Oh you had them pulled.
Dakota: Umm hmm, I had them pulled.
Jay Leno: oh your mom and dad didn’t do it with a string?
Dakota: No, they weren’t even loose actually.
Jay Leno: You mean you just pulled them out because it’s the cool thing to do?
Dakota: No, I had to make room for my permanent teeth because I’m nine and I’ve never lost any teeth without them like being pulled, so I had to pull them and I got five dollars for each tooth. But I got gold dollar coins.
Jay Leno: Oh yah gold dollar coins.
Dakota: And I had like all this dust around me.
Jay Leno: Well how does it work now? Do you get the tooth and then your business manager brings you the five dollars?
Dakota: (She giggles)
Jay Leno: Does the tooth fairy still come to you?
Dakota: Yes
Jay Leno: When I was a kid, I imagine you as well (Jay points to Hugh Grant) the tooth fairy would come.
Hugh Grant: A fairy certainly came. Uhh I don’t know if I would say.
Jay Leno: Yah
Dakota: Uhh ha. Yah well actually, I told the toothfairy, I wrote her not to take my teeth.
Jay Leno: Oh yah.
Dakota: So yah I have them, I have all of them.
Jay Leno: So is this what this is? ( Jay points to little box)
Dakota: Yah these are my teeth. Here are my top ones.
Jay Leno: Ok
Dakota: And, these are them. (Puts teeth in hands and shows audience)
Hugh Grant: Yah those are not human teeth.
Dakota: Well this one sure doesn’t look like it.
Jay Leno: That looks like a fang.
Hugh Grant: Yah thats definitely a fang!
Dakota: Yah.
Jay Leno: You might be part wolve.
Dakota: Yah (Puts one tooth up to her mouth)
Jay Leno: And someone made you a little tooth box!?!
Dakota: Umm well, the dentist gives you those.
Jay Leno: Oh they do.
Dakota: Umm hmm. Yah.
Jay Leno: Ok. Do you like the dentist? Do you like going?
Dakota: I love dentists.
Jay Leno: You love the dentist? Your the first person I know...
Dakota: Yah I love the dentist!! I love getting my teeth pulled. Oh I love it!
Jay Leno: It’s a limited experience. So don’t enjoy it too much. Ya know.
Dakota: I know.
Jay Leno: Uhhmmhahhahhmmm..( Making an impression of someone with no teeth)
Dakota: The worst part about it is getting the numming injection.
Jay Leno: Yah
Dakota: That’s bad!
Jay Leno: That’s bad.
Dakota: Yah that hurts!
Jay Leno: Well why do you love it? You know I’m curious.
Dakota: Umm I’ve never seen, I don’t think there is really anything not to like about it.
Jay Leno: Do you like the lollipop after?
Dakota: Well, they give you, well they open a drawer and they have all this stuff there and I always pick the sticky eye ball.
Jay Leno: Oh the sticky eyeball.
Dakota: Yah its a sticky eyeball. But my sister and I we umm take the pupil out of it afterwards. After we get it. Yah.
Jay Leno: Ok, you’ve been in hollywood too long, young lady.
Dakota: (giggles) No we take the pupil out of it and umm we use the other part, and we cut it up and it looks like butter. So I when we play,we pretend that we’re chefs we put it and pretend it’s butter.
Jay Leno: I see. How old is your sister, Elle?
Dakota: She is five.
Jay Leno: Do you guys share a bedroom?
Dakota: Ahh yes we do.
Jay Leno: Umm are you similar? Do you like the same things?
Dakota: Umm we like the same things, but she’s extremely different. Umm like she’s very messy and I’m extremely neat.
Jay Leno: Umm I know you’re kind of a neat freak.
Dakota: Yes that is correct.
Jay Leno: So how does this work out? When she is messy, what do you do?
Dakota: Well her side of the room is messy and my side of the room is neat. And so all her junk goes under her bed. Yah I just shove it under her bed.
Jay Leno: You just shove it under the bed.
Dakota: Umm hmm.
Jay Leno: Yah so that works.
Dakota: Yah.
Jay Leno: So do you go out to eat together and stuff?
Dakota: Oh yah.
Jay Leno: Do you like the same foods?
Dakota: We do. Our favorite restaurants are Panda Express and Del Taco.
Jay Leno: Well
Dakota: Yep our favorite restaurants. I had Panda Express today.
Jay Leno: Well your mom must be quite a cook. I guess.
Jay Leno: Well should you be eating fast food all the time? Shouldn’t you be having like a heaping thing of brocoli with extra asparagus, or something?
Dakota: Well I don’t like vegetables at all.
Jay Leno: You don’t
Dakota: Excepts sometimes onions, sometimes zucini, sometimes corn and sometime umm well I love potatoes.
Jay Leno: Yah but it’s Del Taco and....
Dakota: Panda Express or Orange Chicken and Chamain.( Or whatever she said(Noy exactly sure) )
Jay Leno: Yah alright. I like Orange Chicken too.
Dakota: Yah.
Jay Leno: So now your doing The Cat in the Hat. Did you read the book?
Dakota: oh it’s one of my favorite books!
Jay Leno: Oh ok.
Dakota: Yah it’s one of my favorite books, I’m lucky to be in such a great movie.
Jay Leno: Oh ok so you read the bok. And you did you decided that you wanted this part.
Dakota: Oh yah.
Jay Leno: Oh and what about Mike Myers?Wht’s he like to work with?
Dakota: Oh he’s so funny! I think he’s just the best! He is so fun everyday.
Jay Leno: And he is the Cat in the Hat?
Dakota: Yah he’s he plays the cat in the hat.
Jay Leno: And who do you play?
Dakota: I play Sally Walden.Actually and thats the little girl in the book and Spencer Breslin plays my brother and Kelly Preston’s our mom.
Jay Leno: Oh Kelly Preston huh.
Jay Leno: Now you’ve got a silly dance too, you know Mr.Grant is a dancer much along the line of...
Dakota: Yah yah I saw we are both in dance scenes.
Jay Leno: He saw the english Fred Astaire.
Dakota: Oh yah
Hugh Grant: Yah that’s how I'm known.
Jay Leno: And you have a little dance too.
Dakota: Yep well umm. Mike he would he used to ah if anything was like ever quiet no matter what ever time it was he would sing this song and umm that would be my que to a do this ( She gets up and does her dance.)
And he would go like this “ And you dance you dance you dance “ and then I would have to go like this. (She pulls he foot up and spins) So he’d be going “And you dance you dance you dance you dance you dance you dance you dance” And then when he went sleep I would have to stop.
Jay Leno: Oh ok.
Dakota: Yah so that was our dance that we would do and our other thing we would do our joke was he would call me Dakoter. Yah he called me D-A-K-O-T-E-R, yah Dakoter.
Jay Leno: Oh Dakoter. All right.
Dakota: Dakoter yah.
Jay Leno: Do you think Mr. Grant can could do that dance? With his leg up like that?
Hugh Grant: (Laughs)
Dakota: Ahh I don’t know, I don’t know.
Hugh Grant: Well that was impressive, that was impressive. I know that I can’t so it’s just simple. I don’t even have to try.
Jay Leno: Why don’t we pull some of his teeth after the show, yah.
Dakota: (Giggles)
Jay Leno: So what is this clip we have? This is you as Sally, right?
Dakota: Yes I’m actually making my to do list and Spenser Breslin my brother he plays Conrad and he is performing a stunt in our house and so he is getting ready for his stunt.
Jay Leno: Lets take a look.
{Plays clip}
Jay Leno: Cool! Well congradulations Dakota!
Dakota: Thank you!
Jay Leno: And I hope your new teeth grow in next.
Dakota: Yes so thank you for letting me be on the show again.
Jay Leno: Yah and I like that look.
Dakota: Yah well thank you!
Jay Leno: You look really sweet! Well we will be right back with Johnny Lang right after this.

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