Dakota Fanning is way ahead of most actors her age considering her experience playing big screen roles dates back to being seven alongside the likes of Sean Penn and Michelle Pfieffer in her movie debut, "I Am Sam." As the actress stars in her latest movie, Ishana Night Shayamalan’s "The Watchers," it made me wonder how her first horror movie, Steven Spielberg’s "War Of The Worlds," may have come into play.

During our CinemaBlend interview, CinemaBlend's Sarah El-Mahmoud told Dakota Fanning that "War Of The Worlds" was one of the first scary movies she got to see. She was about her age when my parents let me watch the 2005 movie because it was made by Steven Spielberg and a little girl starred in it. Here’s what the actor recalled about being on the set 20 years ago.