DAKOTA FANNING

The Once Upon a Time in Hollywood star, 26, reprises her role as Sara Howard on TNT’s The Alienist: Angel of Darkness, set in New York City in the late 1800s. In the sequel to the original Alienist series, the former police secretary has opened her own private detective agency, where she helps Dr. Kreizler (Daniel Brühl) and reporter John Moore (Luke Evans) track down a new killer.

How do you feel about Sara having her own detective agency?

It’s so exciting to have another series to show where she went, and that she still can’t and won’t be stopped and is continuing to live in a man’s world. She knows that it’s going to take a while for society to catch up with a female detective and is aware of the boundaries that she has to push against.

The contrast between the haves and the have-nots is like a subplot, isn’t it?

There’s so much injustice during this time, and so many struggles between classes, races, ethnicities and men and women. You could not walk down a street in New York City without observing all of that just in half a block.

What will it be like working with your sister, Elle, in your December movie The Nightingale?

It’s really exciting to get to work together for the first time. When you’re acting with someone, you really see each other, you’re really vulnerable, you’re putting yourself out there. I think that that’s going to be tripled because it’s my sister.

A lot of your career has been in a time of social media. How do you handle it?

I didn’t have any social media accounts for a long time, and I do now. I don’t really read negative comments. I try to use it for positive things, like when you work for a charity and you’re able to post something about what they’re doing.