Elle Fanning said she lost out on a movie role as a teenager for a disgusting reason.

The star of Hulus The Great recounted the incident during The Hollywood Reporters Comedy Actress Roundtable , published Tuesday.

Ive never told this story, but I was trying out for a movie, Fanning said. I didnt get it. I dont even think they ever made it, but it was a father-daughter road trip comedy. I didnt hear from my agents because they wouldnt tell me things like this but this one got to me.

I was 16 years old, and a person said, Oh, she didnt get the father-daughter road trip comedy because shes unfuckable, she continued to audible shock from her peers at the table. Yeah, its so disgusting. And I can laugh at it now, like, What a disgusting pig!

Fanning, 25, didnt name the person or movie in question, but said her agents have been amazing at shielding her from such obscene remarks and that their filtration system has surely weeded out a lot more damaging comments than that one.

Fanning, the younger sister of actor Dakota Fanning , was only 3 when she acted in I Am Sam (2001) with Sean Penn and has since become a star in her own right. While the actor said she was always immensely confident, she added that being a child celebrity was weird.