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LB: Worse than an audition?
EF: Oh, auditions, I can’t [do them]—I mean, obviously, sure,
I can, but they make me so nervous. I fainted in an audition
once. It was with Jessica Chastain. I didn’t get the part.
LB: You literally just fell down in front of people?
EF: I was young, but, yeah, I fell down in front of people. It was
very odd. There were glaring lights, and I felt so hot. I fainted
in Cannes this year too. Fainting is something I do. I was on
my period. It was such a crazy feeling. It honestly happened
at the best moment because I wasn’t on the red carpet. Could
you imagine? That would have been kind of epic, though.
LB: She’s so Best Dressed that she fell down. Aside from
that, how was being on the grand jury in Cannes? You
killed it on the red carpet.
EF: I was there the whole time, two weeks. It was intense. You
also have to watch the films and be serious about it. Cannes is
the biggest red carpet in the world and is the moment that you
can kind of pull out all the stops with the clothes. My stylist
[Samantha McMillen] and I didn’t have that much time to
plan, probably a month. We went to different designers, and I
had the idea about the Dior, complete with the hat.
LB: That was your idea?
EF: Yes! It was one of my favorite things I’ve worn. I love
feeling confident in what I’m wearing. You can tell when
somebody is forced into something.
LB: What was it like walking in the Miu Miu show last year?
EF: Oh! That was crazy! I was so nervous. It wasn’t a
planned thing. I was attending any way, and then Mrs.
Prada had that idea. Her team said, “You’re starting the
show, so you have to be very serious.” The whole theme
was rockabilly-grunge. I tried to keep a straight face, but
that’s not my go-to. I was cracking up.
LB: You’re young and visible, so how do you handle when
people ask you to be politically engaged publicly?
EF: Sometimes I feel like I don’t know all the information.
Like, am I qualified to speak on this? But I also think it’s
OK for people to say that they don’t know or aren’t sure yet.
Angelina [Jolie] said that to me after a recent interview
we did for Maleficent 2. She said, “You know what? It’s OK
not to answer things.” I mean, I’m still learning.
LB: You’re 21 now. What was your first official beverage?
EF: I think it was a martini at Craig’s [in L.A.]. I loved it,
except they didn’t give me my olives. I love olives. We had
dinner there. Then we went to karaoke in Koreatown, and
we drank a lot.
LB: So proud. Who was there, and what did you wear?
EF: I wore a dress from For Love & Lemons. It was long-
sleeve and pink with a heart. Dakota was there. [Rodarte
designer] Laura Mulleavy was there. [Film director]
Gia Coppola was there.
LB: Now that you’re getting older, what are you ambitious for?
EF: Oh, man, I’m ambitious for a lot of things. I love game
shows and want to create one. All I watch is Game Show Net-
work. I love America Says, Idiotest, Chain Reaction, Family
Feud. I don’t know exactly what my show would be, but I
really want to do that. I want to direct something, maybe
sing a country album. I love Johnny Cash, so I could possibly
do a cover album. And a clothing line.
LB: You also have a very fancy L’Oréal contract. What’s
your idea of “worth”?
EF: My mom, my sister, my grandmother, and I, we all live
together. So, there is a strong sense of female empowerment
that I’ve always had in my life. It’s significant to know that
there are so many different types of women. I hate that in
order to be strong you have to look like this or to be soft you
have to look like this. Those stereotypes are just not true.
My worth is knowing I can be anything. In Maleficent I play a
princess [Aurora] who is strong in being completely feminine
and isn’t afraid of that feeling. It’s a quality I also have. And,
obviously, this version is different from the first one.
I’m not fighting with a sword just so I can be stronger.
LB: To be worthy.
EF: Yes, exactly.
LB: I read that you’re a cousin of Kate Middleton.
Have you interacted or gotten in touch with her?
EF: That came from somebody doing an Ancestry.com
[search] on me and my sister, but no. [laughs] I’ve
never met any of them. She probably doesn’t even
know who I am.
LB: Are you obsessed with the royal family, like
everyone else in the world seems to be?
EF: I’m in London a lot, so I feel like I’m in the know, and I
do read the Daily Mail. [ laug h s]
LB: Click bait! Last one. What did you learn from working
with Angelina and Michelle [Pfeiffer] on Maleficent 2?
EF: When I heard that Michelle was going to be in the film,
I realized that the second movie is going to be about power.
It’s about three generations of women in power and how
they represent it in different ways. And, with Angelina,
I was so young when I did the first film with her. I was very
nervous then. My mom was with me. Now that I’m grown
up, she sees me in a different way. We talked about different
things. We went paintballing.
LB: Are you an aggressive paintballer? Is she?
EF: Oh, she’s aggressive. [laughs] We would do outings
because her kids were there, so she was trying to schedule
activities on the weekends. I had never gone paintballing
before. We were in full-on armor. We were the only people
in the place, with all of her kids. She and I were not on the
same team. I was so bad. I hit their security guard in the neck,
and he was on my team! [laughs] Angelina’s really good.
LB: I mean, I’ve seen Salt. She’s a trained assassin.
EF: Totally. I was good at hiding. I would just hide. n
“I love feeling confident
in what I’m wearing. You
can tell when somebody
is forced into something.”