Dakota Fanning responds to backlash over Ethiopian Muslim role in new film

The 25-year-old actress came under fire this week when reports showed photos of her starring in the film “Sweetness in the Belly” as a Muslim woman in Ethiopia. 'All the outrage for Dakota Fanning playing a white Ethiopian in the film version of Sweetness in the Belly is nonsense. She hasn’t taken a role from a black actor. The character is white in the book. It really wouldn’t take much research to find this out before raging about it