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The actress plays a college dropout and new mom on "Margo's Got Money Troubles."

Elle Fanning explains why she created an OnlyFans for latest role

The actress plays a college dropout and new mom on "Margo's Got Money Troubles."

By Daysia Tolentino

Daysia Tolentino

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Elle Fanning at the 'Margo's Got Money Trouble's premiere at SXSW. Credit:

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Elle Fanning had a unique way of preparing for her latest role.

The Oscar nominee stars as college dropout and young mom Margot Millet on the upcoming Apple TV series *Margo's* *Got Money Troubles*. Her character turns to online sex work to help pay the bills, so Fanning turned to OnlyFans, the premier platform for online adult content, to get into her role.

"We had to dive into OnlyFans a little bit," Fanning shared with PEOPLE at the show's SXSW premiere on Thursday. "We did create an account for the writers' room, and for me, so I could check out how the website is."

Michelle Pfeiffer and Elle Fanning on 'Margo's Got Money Troubles'.

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Producer Eva Anderson shared further insight into the research that went into the show, which is based on the popular 2024 novel of the same name by Rufi Thorpe. Anderson said that the writers looked through the site together to help inform their work.

"There was a lot of looking at OnlyFans with the writers, but we all gave consent to each other before we did it," she said during the show's SXSW panel. "We were very responsible and we just tried to get as much information as we could before we started."

Elle Fanning on 'Margo's Got Money Troubles'.

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Fanning previously gushed about the "most wonderful experience" she had working on the series. She called the book "brilliant and heartwarming," and her character "inspiring to play" in an interview with Deadline in December.

"I hope people really enjoy the show," she said. "It's a family drama, but there's also, again, it's very heartwarming and Margo is such a hopeful character. She's dealt these hardships in life, but somehow she always is able to overcome them."

*Margo's Got Money Troubles* is an eight-episode series that also stars Michelle Pfeiffer, Nick Offerman, Nicole Kidman, Greg Kinnear, Marcia Gay Harden, and more. David E. Kelley, Pfeiffer's husband, is the showrunner. The series premieres on Apple TV on April 15.

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