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Dakota Fanning returns to WME from CAA


Dakota Fanning Returns to WME From CAA

After nearly three years at CAA, Dakota Fanning is returning to WME, The Hollywood Reporter has exclusively learned.

Fanning had first signed with WME, along with her younger sister, Elle Fanning, in 2012 after the two left their youth-focused agency, Osbrink Talent. The elder Fanning broke out as a child star with a steady string of movies, including I Am Sam and War of the Worlds.

Now just a week shy of 23, Fanning is set to play the female lead in TNT's upcoming period thriller The Alienist, produced by Cary Fukunaga. Starring opposite Daniel Bruhl and Luke Evans, she'll play an intrepid police secretary at the turn of the 20th century who aspires to become New York City's first female detective.

On the big screen, Fanning can be seen next month in the Western Brimstone, which premiered at Venice last September and will be released by Momentum Pictures next month. And she will star as the troubled protagonist in Kirsten Dunst's adaptation of Sylvia Plath's classic novel The Bell Jar, which also will mark Fanning's first turn as a producer.

Fanning continues to be represented by manager Brittany Kahan at Echo Lake and attorney Steve Warren at Hansen Jacobson.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/dakota-fanning-returns-wme-caa-976626

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does that means she could start getting better projects?

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does that means she could start getting better projects?
I guess that's one of the hopes when an actor changes agency.

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We said that when she switched to CAA. Her roles were different but still not much better.

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I'm surprised she switched. It seems, in the last year or so, she's been offered quite good roles.

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Maybe it's because Elle has done super well with them and she regrets switching (although that didn't have to do with agency IMO)

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