Elle Fanning Reveals Why She Didn't Talk to the Real Michelle Carter Before Doing 'The Girl From Plainville'

Elle Fanning is opening up about her latest role in the Hulu limited series The Girl From Plainville!

The 24-year-old portrays real life person Michelle Carter in the series, about the “texting-suicide” case based on the Esquire article of the same name by Jesse Barron.

In a new interview, Elle dished on not speaking to Michelle before filming the show.

See what she said inside…

“I did not [speak to anyone involved in the case]. I didn’t feel that it was appropriate for me to reach out to Michelle,” Elle told Variety. “I know that [creators] Liz [Hannah] and Patrick [Macmanus] spoke to people on the Roy side. It just wasn’t something that I felt like I needed to for my part. I am playing a real person, but it’s our version of her and it is a character. At the end, you want to bring sensitivity to the story, but then, also, I had to remove myself.”

Elle also commented on the toughest part of the process of making the show.

“It was a difficult process. It was a challenge. I think the toughest part was to balance the fiction and reality. That’s a theme throughout our show — balancing fantasy and reality. This is a real story, and you need to be sensitive to that, but then we have to also create a show and think about things in a cinematic point of view,” she said.

“Being a producer on it, I was able to have more responsibility and watch edits and collaborate to make sure that it didn’t feel one-sided,” Elle continued. “I just wanted to tell the truth of it and show these people for more of what they were, not what the media portrayed [them to be] to all of us.”

If you missed it, find out what Elle did before signing on to the series.