Elle Fanning is absolutely charming. Remember, Angelina Jolie said that when she first met Elle, Elle ran up to her and jumped on her and “it was like being attacked by a thousand cute, gorgeous bunnies.” That’s what the Maleficent promotional tour is going to be like, so just prepare yourself. Elle covers the new issue of Interview Magazine and I LOVE the cover. The cover is amaze-balls. The rest of the shoot is a little bit creepy though – Elle only turned 16 years in April, and there’s definitely a Lolita vibe in the pictorial. As for the interview, it was conducted by Scarlett Johansson. If you want to groan at how much ScarJo brings up her stuff, go here to read the full piece. Some highlights:

Elle’s education: “I was homeschooled up until third grade, and I liked it because my grandma taught me, and I loved being with my grandma. But then I didn’t really have any friends, none my own age. So my mom put me in school in fourth grade. It’s cool because I’ve realized things about myself that I wouldn’t have if I weren’t in school. My favorite subject is science, which is so weird because I would think that my favorite subject would be, I don’t know, something more artistic. I only have two more years left now because I’m a sophomore. But I’m also excited to get out of school.”

Her favorite food: “My favorite food is Cobb salad. I love the Baskin-Robbins World Class Chocolate milkshake, but you have to tell them to add extra chocolate syrup in it.”

Playing Sleeping Beauty, doing lots of CGI: “It was a little bit overwhelming in the beginning, but the nice thing was that my character, Sleeping Beauty, is human. She’s not, like, half-fairy. She’s just a person. So my stuff wasn’t as visual-effects heavy. And everyone was so specialized—they were the top people in their fields—so I was like, “Oh, they know what they’re doing, so I can just do my job.” And Angelina [Jolie] was there, which was really cool.”

Meeting Angelina: “I was very nervous to meet her. It was the same thing with you. When you hear “Angelina Jolie” and you haven’t met the person, that’s just a name. “Scarlett Johansson”—that was just a name, and then I met you and you became a real person. When I met her, she became, like, flesh—someone who wasn’t just a big celebrity. And you feel like, “Oh, I can actually just talk to her about regular things.” Like school, everyday things.”

[From Interview Magazine]

Cobb salad is okay, but I prefer it without the eggs and the cheese. And extra bacon if they have it. But the chocolate shake? Damn, now I’m craving a really creamy chocolate shake.

ScarJo and Elle also talk about the struggle of child actors who don’t know if they should pursue a university education or keep working/transitioning into adulthood. Scarlett actually seemed really nice about it, telling Elle that she deferred a year at NYU but ended up not going because she was working back-to-back. Elle sounds like she probably won’t do college but she also talks a lot about how she loves ballet and would love to do it full time.

Elle also had a recent interview with Yahoo and she was fan-girling Angelina really hard in that piece – you can read it here.

Photos courtesy of CRAIG MCDEAN/Interview.