Dakota Fanning practically grew up with Coraline

Dakota Fanning has spent roughly one-third of her life working on Coraline , growing up alongside her own stop-motion likeness as she worked with director Henry Selick to bring Neil Gaiman's novel to life on screen. "It's been a really long time," Fanning said in a group interview in Los Angeles last week. "But it's been fun to see it finally." The stop-motion-animated Coraline 's extensive and ongoing voice work was a new experience for the young actress, but she says she had a lot of fun getting to know her over the years. "It's very different than what I usually do," Fanning said. "In between each movie I've done, I've gone to do a session for Coraline . [Now that] it's finally coming out, I'm kind of going to miss that [laughs]." (link)