Elle Fanning said she didn’t get a role because someone thought she was “unf*ckable”

Elle Fanning has opened up about her experiences going out for roles in Hollywood as a young teenager. During Hollywood Reporter’s women in comedy round table the actress said she once missed out on a role because someone said she was “unf**kable.” She was only 16 at the time.

“I’ve never told this story, but I was trying out for a movie. I didn’t get it. I don’t even think they ever made it, but it was a father-daughter road trip comedy,” Elle explained to the group during the discussion. “I didn’t hear from my agents because they wouldn’t tell me things like this — that filtration system is really important because there’s probably a lot more damaging comments that they filtered — but this one got to me. I was 16 years old, and a person said, ‘Oh, she didn’t get the father-daughter road trip comedy because she’s unf**kable.’”

While it’s not clear who said this, Fanning goes on to add that she can laugh at the situation now. “It’s so disgusting. And I can laugh at it now, like, ‘What a disgusting pig!’” she said.

The actor, who currently stars in The Great, also added that being so young and in the public eye gave her a certain level of self-awareness. “I was always immensely confident, but of course you’re growing up in the public eye, and it’s weird. I’ll look at paparazzi photos from when I was 12 and think, ‘Is that a good thing to see such a mirror of yourself at that age?‘ I don’t feel like it damaged me, but it definitely made me very aware of myself.”

This isn’t the first time Elle has opened up about the ridiculous reasons she didn’t get a role. A few weeks ago the actress said she wasn’t cast because of her Instagram following. “I didn’t get a part once for something big,” Fanning told Happy Sad Confused podcast. “It might not have just been this reason, but this was all the feedback that I heard — because I didn’t have enough Instagram followers at the time.”

Elle Fanning has been working since she was two-years-old when she played a younger version of her sister Dakota Fanning. She recently was cast as Sylvie Russo in the Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown alongside Timothée Chalamet.

This story originally appeared on Teen Vogue.