Bet You Didn’t Know: Secrets Behind “The Secret Life of Bees”

How did Dakota prepare?

We’ve known for some time, since I Am Sam, in 2001, that Dakota Fanning was a very talented young lady. And though acting seems to come very naturally for her, Fanning still had to prepare for the role and Prince-Bythewood helped her with that process. In an interview with Eclipse Magazine Fanning explained what she used to get into that time period.

“Gina, the director, gave…I think she gave everybody different things based on what their character would have felt or what they were going through in the movie so I don’t think we all got the same thing. I got a documentary called “Four Little Girls”. I loved it so much I watched it a bunch of times. I also got a documentary about what goes on inside a hive (bee hive), about bees. So those were kind of my two movies and then she gave us music from the sixties and I think that’s all she gave me.”