Elle Fanning names her most divisive role: “People either loved it or hated it”Elle Fanning seems sweet. Overwhelming, the way she’s perceived is the way she’s been cast. Fanning is more than attuned to the fact that movies, and all art, are a divisive force. Even more than that, when the role was clearly a mission for Fanning to break out of the box, she welcomed the conflict. “If people had, you know, just been like ‘Oh it’s good’ then it would be kind of boring,” she said.