NEW YORK, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Ripley, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and The Alienist actress Dakota Fanning says the character she plays in the new thriller All Her Fault is a woman who realizes how exhausting it can be to try to make everyone happy all of the time.
"I think she would be described as a 'people pleaser,' but in the most positive version of that," Fanning, 31, told UPI in a Zoom interview Tuesday.
"Not like how, sometimes, if you describe someone as a 'people pleaser,' it's like: 'Well, who are you really? Are you just trying to say the right thing and please people and not being authentic?'
"I think she's actually the really genuine, altruistic version of a people pleaser, which is just that she really leads with her heart and is trying to do the right thing by everyone, and trying to be open and supportive and have it all and do it all and have all the answers and show up and be good at work and not let anybody down," Fanning explained.
Premiering Thursday on Peacock, the adaptation of Andrea Mara's novel casts Fanning as Jenny, who befriends Marissa (Sarah Snook), a wealthy mom from her son's private school, whose 5-year-old son Milo is kidnapped.
