Aug 24, 2026 · 1 hr 7 min · 21 segments
Dakota Fanning is back on Happy Sad Confused this week! Dakota and Josh catch up on Dakota’s latest project: Joe Swanberg’s THE SUN NEVER SETS, her viral 2002 Critics Choice Awards speech featuring…
Josh HorowitzHost
[Instrumental music] By nature of, like, having done this as long as you have-
since you were such a little kid, like, you know, little kids I assume aren't necessarily encouraged to improvise.
Like, is, is that something that you've ha- kind of had to, like, relearn in recent years? Like, it's okay.
You obviously m- memorize your lines, and you know what's supposed to happen in the scene, but you have to still be present in the moment.
If somebody asks you, "Is it raining?" And you're, you know, "Oh, it's written that it was supposed to be raining, but now it's not raining"-
[Instrumental music] By nature of, like, having done this as long as you have-
since you were such a little kid, like, you know, little kids I assume aren't necessarily encouraged to improvise.
Like, is, is that something that you've ha- kind of had to, like, relearn in recent years? Like, it's okay.
You obviously m- memorize your lines, and you know what's supposed to happen in the scene, but you have to still be present in the moment.
If somebody asks you, "Is it raining?" And you're, you know, "Oh, it's written that it was supposed to be raining, but now it's not raining"-
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