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NEWS > ENTERTAINMENT > DAKOTA FANNING BEHIND MOVE TO RETURN ROMAN POLANSKI TO THE U.S.
DAKOTA FANNING BEHIND MOVE TO RETURN ROMAN POLANSKI TO THE U.S.
January 23 2010
Los Angeles, CA – Few will ever argue that Roman Polanski isn’t one of the greatest directors to ever step behind a camera. Classics such as ‘Rosemary’s Baby’ and ‘Chinatown’ alongside well regarded pictures such as ‘Tess’, ‘Frantic’ and ‘The Pianist’ 
assured Polanski’s place in film history, firmly settled amongst other greats such as Akira Kurosawa, John Ford, and Stanley Kubrick. For many though it is not his career as a director that most people are interested in, it is his personal life, specifically the ongoing saga of his rape charges stemming from an incident in 1977.
Those charges have comeback to light in recent months when Swiss authorities took the director into custody last September to finally face the charges that he had been avoiding for over thirty years. Now under house arrest, the 76-year old director has been fighting extradition to the United States where it’s believed that authorities will seek harsh punishment, something Polanski is obviously interested in avoiding. Now though new details are starting to emerge as to his desire to have the charges dropped and they relate directly to his desire to return to the United States. Specifically Polanski is interested in returning to the country to see what kind of action he is still able to get.
“Polanski has been talking about this for years and has made a number of gestures to U.S. officials to try and have this resolved. Part of it is that he realizes that his life is starting to wind down and he would rather his career be his legacy than his personal life. He simply wants to end this, but there are other reasons as well,” said a Polanski insider. “Roman really likes American girls, there’s no two ways about it. Sharon Tate was the prototypical American girl and in some ways he has never really let go of her and she has defined the way he views women. It’s been a long time for Roman and he really wants to get back on the horse at least a couple of times before he dies. That’s the real reason he wants to return to the States.”
Polanski has been married to French singer Emmanuelle Seigner, 33 years his junior, since 1989.
“Roman has been sitting on the other side of the Atlantic watching stars like Dakota Fanning, Miley Cyrus, and Selena Gomez rise in popularity and frankly all he can think of is what he is missing. He has always had this longing for the States and seeing young talent like that just makes him nostalgic for the old days, for the days when the world was really his oyster,” continued the insider. “It’s not that the French girls aren’t great, but they just aren’t his thing. American girls have a different kind of zest, a different kind of vibrancy that Roman has always really enjoyed and for that reason along he wants to make it back to the country he loves so much.”
The age of consent has not changed in California since 1977.
“I think with his reputation it’s going to be very easy to get the kind of action he is looking for and very challenging to avoid to law. If he can somehow be totally cleared of these charges that might, might, give him a little more freedom to move around but if he is given some kind of probation then his movements will be monitored a little more closely making certain things little more difficult,” said Scrape TV Entertainment analyst Tracey Temple. “The real challenge for him is going to be the age of these stars. Both Gomez and Cyrus turn 18 this year so they are out unless he can get this solved quickly. Dakota Fanning will only be sixteen this year so that’s something, unless that’s a little too old for him.”
Fanning’s sister Elle turns 12 this year.
Samantha Dryden, Entertainment Correspondent
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