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Elle Fanning has been producing her own projects since her days on Hulu’s The Great, but her time on Margo’s Got Money Troubles changed everything. Fanning, who stars in the Apple TV series and also produced it under her Lewellen Pictures banner (alongside her sister Dakota), said she was able to give notes and feedback with a level of confidence she hadn’t felt before and that she credits the lead character herself for that. “Playing Margo, I just had this confidence, and it was the most free I’d felt on a set. I wasn’t vain,” she says. “I didn’t feel like I was looking outside of myself thinking, what do I look like, or what are people going to think of this?”
Margo’s Got Money Troubles is the adaptation of Rufi Thorpe’s bestselling novel about a college student turned single mother who launches an OnlyFans account to pay the bills; the bidding war for the screen rights started well before the 2024 release even hit shelves. The series, which was just renewed for a second season, called for Fanning to do everything from breastfeeding to performing choreographed dances. “I also ate more than ever before,” she says. “I don’t mean ate like body-wise, I mean literally. In every single scene, I’m eating a new food. The Harvest Cheddar Sun-Chip supply in the United States has gone down in the United States because of me.”
