Carla Hay over at Examiner.com had the change to interview Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning while they were in New York doing publicity for “The Runaways.”
What did you learn from Cherie Currie and Joan Jett?
Fanning: I think they were really involved in helping as much as we wanted them to help us and to be there. Playing a real person is kind of a daunting task, especially [with] Cherie actually being there and meeting her and talking to her about the experiences, it was more than helpful, I think.
Stewart: They knew things that we would never know that we wouldn’t be able to put in the movie that would be lost that were very important to them. Just details, photos and footage and a book ["Neon Angel"]. It’s not an objective telling of the story; it’s definitely [Cherie Currie’s] side of it. It was nice to hear Joan’s [side of the story], because it was very different. There are a million things that would’ve been different in the movie, and we would’ve been telling story wrong had they [Cherie Currie and Joan Jett] not been there to correct us.
Photo by Carla Hay.
“This film married my two favorite things in the world: music and fashion,” says Carol Beadle, who created the costumes for The Runaways, the much-anticipated biopic on Joan Jett and her titular proto-punk girl group. Beadle talked to us about evoking the late ’70s, working with Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning (who play Jett and the band’s bombshell lead singer, Cherie Currie, respectively), and how to put a contemporary spin on Jett’s inimitable style.
Looks like The Runaway co-stars Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning are finally on the same page, when it comes to style! While the two couldn’t have been more oppositely dressed for the Sundance premiere of the new biopic, Kristen and Dakota both upped the glam factor for the NYC premiere or The Runaways in sexy short dresses! But which starlet worked their look best? 
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