Dakota Fanning meets with cancer survivors
Hollywood star Dakota Fanning has been interviewed by two teenage cancer survivors after playing a leukemia victim in her new movie.
The teen star portrays a young woman battling the killer illness in Now Is Good, and during a promotional trip to the U.K. she met with Jennie-Lou Hodge and Clara Markiewicz, who are both in remission from the disease.
They quizzed the actress on what she learned about cancer by
studying for the role and told her about their experiences during
treatment for the illness.
During the interview, arranged by Britain's Channel 4 News, Fanning
told the teenagers, "I have always done a lot of volunteer work at
children's hospitals in particular, and I had a friend who passed
away from leukemia. I didn't know specifically all the terms and
that sort of thing, but I had some personal experience with it, for
sure."