Dafne Keen: I Was Offered Cocaine at 11 in Hollywood

Dafne Keen says she was offered cocaine at Hollywood wrap parties when she was 11, 12 and 13 years old. The "Logan" star, now 21, made the disclosure on Michael Rosenbaum's "Inside of You" podcast, in an interview flagged by Entertainment Weekly.

Keen broke through as the young mutant Laura, also known as X-23, opposite Hugh Jackman in 2017's "Logan." She shot the film at 11. It reached theaters a few months after her 12th birthday.

What did Keen reveal about the parties?

"I was getting offered coke at wrap parties. Like, tiny. Like 11, 12, 13," Keen told Rosenbaum. "So I saw what that was, so I was like, 'I don't really have any interest in that'… I was saying no, fortunately."

The actress said the early exposure to that environment inoculated her rather than tempted her.

"I don't think I've ever been drunk enough to even have a hangover. I'm such a control freak with that," she said. "Because also I think as a child actor I witnessed so much of that as a child that I just had no interest."

She still avoids drugs and alcohol as an adult, and not from the sidelines. "I'll go out and stay out 'til 6 but sober. Just for the vibes, just 'cause I like music and I like dancing and I like people," she said.

She admitted to one teenage deception: inventing an excuse to dodge peer pressure. "I'd be like, 'Nah, I'm good. I don't wanna drink. I already took something.' Dead sober," she said. "Like, the goodest goody-two-shoes ever."

How did Hugh Jackman protect her?

Keen credits her "Logan" co-star with shielding her from the pressures child actors routinely face. Jackman, she said, functioned as a de facto parent on set.

"[Hugh Jackman] gave me a lot of really positive reinforcement and a lot of really good advice. And he was always so lovely," she said. "He's the best number one you could ever wish for. And he's the best on-screen dad. He genuinely felt like a sort of parental figure."

The protection was practical, not sentimental. "He made sure that no one was abusing my hours, that I was having fun on set, that I wasn't aware of any tensions that would've been happening behind the scenes," Keen said. "He was so incredibly protective and amazing."

Child-actor labor rules limit working hours for minors, and enforcement on a major studio production depends heavily on the adults around them. Keen's account suggests one A-lister quietly ran that enforcement himself.

Where is her career now?

The roles since "Logan" have stacked up steadily:

• The lead in HBO and BBC One's "His Dark Materials," which ran for three seasons
• A role in the "Star Wars" series "The Acolyte"
• Artemis in the third season of "Percy Jackson and the Olympians"
• A return as X-23 in "Deadpool and Wolverine"

The full interview is available on the "Inside of You" podcast. Keen's account lands as Hollywood's handling of its youngest performers faces ongoing scrutiny, and it offers a rare first-person measure of how much a vigilant co-star can matter.