Dakota Fanning.
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New York: Actor Dakota Fanning says she got her first mobile phone as a gift from her War of the Worlds co-star Tom Cruise when she turned 11.
In a recent interview for Harper's Bazaar, Fanning and Andrew Scott, her co-star on Netflix's series Ripley, played a quiz and one of the questions was “Who gave Dakota her first cell phone?” In his response, Scott said, “Okay, well it’s going to be some Hollywood icon … Tom Cruise.”
Fanning confirmed Cruise gifted her a Motorola Razr for her 11th birthday while they were filming 2005's War of the Worlds.
“Oh, my God, I was so excited. I didn’t have anybody to call or text at that time. You know, I was 11. But I loved having it. I loved it. I felt so cool,” she recalled.
Fanning added the Mission: Impossible star has sent her a gift every year since 2005.
“Tom sends me a birthday gift every year, and has since that birthday,” said The Equalizer 3 actor, adding the latest one arrived on her 30th birthday earlier in April.
Earlier this month, during Elle magazine’s Ask Me Anything video series, Fanning said Kurt Russell, her Dreamer co-star, once gifted her a horse.