Dakota Fanning to be raped on film

"War of the Worlds star Dakota, 12, has signed up to appear in Hounddog.

The screenplay calls for Fanning's character to be raped in one explicit scene and to appear naked or clad only in "underpants" in several other horrifying moments.

A source close to the film said: "The two taboos in Hollywood are child abuse and the killing of animals.

"In this movie, both things happen." Fanning's mother, Joy, and her Hollywood agent, Cindy Osbrink, see the movie, written and directed by Deborah Kampmeier, as a possible Oscar vehicle for the pint-size star."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/li...ews.html?in_article_id=396762&in_page_id=1773

 

Ugh. She's going to have a rougher celluloid childhood than Haley Joel Osment.

 

The original article on it:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/gossip/story/436553p-367837c.html

The script requires the preteen actress to confront tougher challenges than Brooke Shields and Jodie Foster did when, at Fanning's age, they played child prostitutes.

"It's not just the rape scene - the whole story is challenging Dakota as an actress," Fanning's longtime agent, Osbrink, told me. "And I've never been so proud of her in my life. I've seen the dailies, and in every scene she gets better and better."

 

An Oscar vehicle.... for whoever can actually fucking pull off raping a child on film.

I can't imagine if I were an actor I would ever do that.

Hannibal Lecter, yes.

That.... no fucking way.

More Culkin parents, I see.

 

How the hell do you let your kid do that? Seriously, how in the hell?

I wouldn't want my kid in a movie in which a rape takes place, much less in one where she's the victim. Good God.

 

Somehow, Katharine Hepburn managed to "grow as an actress" without ever doing this.
My skin is crawling.
Cue the Jeebocrat culture warriors, BTW.

 

Man, this is disturbing. That's all I can say.

 

awful. i'm sick to my stomach. :'( :'( :'(

 

Wasn't the whole basis of "A Time to Kill" a child rape that was pretty graphic? That turned out to be a pretty good movie. Not Oscar-worthy, but a pretty good movie nonetheless.

 

Serious question - How does depicting a child being raped and her appearing topless not fall under the category of child porn?

 

I guess this is what happens after you do a movie with Tom Cruise...

 

I've often wondered that myself. Anyone know the real answer?