Elle Fanning Pairs a Cowboy Hat with Chic Gucci Outfit for SXSW Party!

Life imitating art? Elle Fanning‘s Hulu series features a shocking connection to Glee‘s Rachel Berry, played by Lea Michele.

Elle Fanning is opening up about what she made sure to do before signing on to star in Hulu’s The Girl From Plainville series.

Emily Longeretta Elle Fanning was beyond focused when it came time to play Michelle Carter, the teen who was convicted of involuntary manslaughter for encouraging her boyfriend, Conrad Roy III (played by Colton Ryan), to end his life.The court case was splashed all over the news in 2017, so Fanning had footage to study when preparing for Hulu’s “The Girl From Plainville.” However, that wasn’t what she spent hours watching. Instead, she binged “Glee,” which was Carter’s favorite show, so much so that it took over parts of her life.“She was a huge ‘Glee’ fan. I had seen the show, but I watched a lot of it on set.

, Elle Fanning is back with another standout performance as Michelle Carter in the streaming platform’s latest true-crime series,. Adapted from Jesse Barron’s article by creators Liz Hannah and Patrick Macmanus, the eight-part saga retells the story surrounding the 2017 texting suicide case, which resulted in Carter being convicted of involuntary manslaughter for the 2014 death of Conrad Roy. “Her look definitely evolves and changes a lot, and she grows up a lot,” says Fanning, who underwent a dramatic physical and mental transformation in order to portray Carter, a lonely teenage girl who had a two-year relationship with a boy she briefly met during a vacation in Florida that largely unfolded over text message before he killed himself.

Elle Fanning makes Francis Ford Coppola laugh at a memory between them during his Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Ceremony on Monday (March 21) in Hollywood, Calif.

Martine McCutcheon showed off her sleek appearance to followers as she headed out of the house in a chic all-black outfit on Monday. The 45 year old Love Actually star looked beaming in a series of photos she posted of her casual daytime look on Instagram, which consisted of an knit jumper, leggings and a pair of flashy white and neon green panelled trainers.

Deadline’s studio at the 2022 edition of the SXSW Festival kicked off Day 1 by hosting fest-goers such as Elle Fanning of The Girl From Plainville, Michelle Yeoh and Jamie Lee Curtis of Everything Everywhere All At Once, and many more. Click on the photo above to launch the gallery.

Elle Fanning sure knows how to get pulses racing! The star shocked fans after sharing a very cheeky backstage photo.MORE: Elle Fanning shares never-before-seen pictures in heartfelt tribute to sister DakotaOn Sunday night, the actress attended the Critics Choice Awards, for which she wore a stunning gold sequin strapless Oscar de la Renta gown fit for a princess.She however proved every bit of award show prep isn't always glamorous, taking fans behind-the-scenes as she tried to go to the bathroom in her voluminous gown.WATCH: Elle shared big news about the future of her hit Hulu show The GreatMORE: Elle Fanning leaves fans shocked by her appearance for new true crime roleThe The Girl from Plainville actress shared a hilarious photo of herself leaning back on a toilet with her toned legs lifted as she held on to a railing and flew her arm up. Fans were left not knowing where to look, either the stunning gown, the toilet paper in Elle's hand or most surprising of all, the nude thong stretched between her knees.Actress Joey King noted the chaotic features of the candid moment, commenting: "Tag yourself.

Elle Fanning is stepping out for the premiere of her new series, The Girl from Plainville!

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words shall never hurt me” is a popular idiom dating back to the 19th century – but it couldn’t have foreseen the power of the text message. In 2017, an unprecedented “texting-suicide” trial made national headlines when Michelle Carter was accused of urging her boyfriend Conrad Roy III to end his own life.

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV CriticHulu’s new limited series “The Girl From Plainville,” which premiered at the SXSW festival on March 12, faces, and surmounts, an interesting challenge: Its two lead characters have a relationship based almost entirely on text messages. The sight of someone with their face buried in a phone is hardly novel, nor is it compelling — at least not enough to sustain an eight-episode drama.The question of whether “The Girl From Plainville,” based on the real-life manslaughter trial of Michelle Carter after she encouraged her boyfriend over text to kill himself in 2014, really needed all of those episodes to tell its story is a fair one.