Overview
- Dakota Fanning told The Tonight Show on Tuesday that she and Elle were “silently panicked” about sharing scenes for the first time in The Nightingale.
- The pair are credited as co-producers and play estranged sisters in the film, which adapts Kristin Hannah’s bestselling novel and co-stars Mark Rylance.
- Dakota described a single late‑production squabble in a hot room over a shared couch that made the crew laugh but did not affect filming.
- Elle set a boundary before shooting, asking Dakota to leave “older sister behavior” at home so she would be treated like any other actor.
- The anecdotes come during the film’s early promotion and do not indicate production trouble; The Nightingale is scheduled to open in U.S. theaters on March 19, 2027.