Kristen and Dakota: MTV Radio interview
MTV Radio also had an interview with Dakota and Kristen where they talked about making The Runaways, meeting the icons Jett and Churrie and many more. Here is an excerpt of their interview:
MTV: How did you overcome being nervous around rock icons like Joan and Cherie?
Kristen Stewart: You try really, really hard.
Dakota Fanning: We were so lucky that they were supportive of the movie and were as involved as we wanted them to be.
Stewart: It’s so weird when you meet [Joan Jett]. She does give off an energy, and at first it’s intimidating. For me to be playing her, especially before I cut my hair and got into the project, I felt like she was looking at me thinking, “What makes you think you can do this?” The thing about Joan — what I really wanted to play to but goes away as soon as she likes you — is she makes you feel so comfortable and at ease. She’s really sensitive and really righteous and morally upstanding. She would tear you down for saying something that wasn’t PC. It was easy [to play her] because she’s so great.
MTV: Would you ever want to start a rock band for real?
Fanning: I don’t really sing, unless I’m doing it for a movie. I just wanted to sing the songs right like she does, because I know they’re so iconic and important to a lot of people. I just hoped I could do them as well as she does.
MTV: We know the crowds you performed in front of were a group of extras …
Stewart: But it’s still a crowd.
MTV: Did you get a feel for what it must’ve been like for the Runaways?
Fanning: Yeah, and especially for me. I don’t do anything till the actual minute that I have to and it’s being recorded, so I like that. I like the energy and having the crowd. I find it really hard to do in front of a few people or no one. You feel kind of stupid for some reason, so I’d keep it inside until I have to actually [perform].
Stewart: I am the same way.
MTV: Would you say that what Joan did in the Runaways paved the way for what you guys are going to be doing for young women?
Stewart: I hope so. To a certain degree, you can definitely see the parallels. But it was so much harder for them.
Fanning: Yeah.
Stewart: We definitely have our own boxes; they’re just different.
Fanning: Music is so different than acting too
Kristen also addressed making the film, K-11 with her mother.
“Yeah,” was Kristen’s response when we brought up the project to her recently, asking if she still thought the film would get made. “Totally. It’s just one of those things where you try and get a movie off the ground that’s small.”
But she isnt sure when its going to be made though.
“I don’t know [whether it will get made],” she explained. “Like, right now it’s harder [to get indie films made].”
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Dakota, Kristen & Taylor: Forbes’ Top Box-Office Teens
Forbes recently updated their list of Top Box-Office Teens,which lists down the top grossing young actors and actresses under the age of 21. Three Twilight actors made in it into the list: Dakota Fanning (No.2), Kristen Stewart (No.3) and Taylor Lautner (No.4)
Dakota Fanning
$2 billion
The 16-year-old actress got her start in the 2001 film I Am Sam playing Sean Penn’s daughter. She got caught in some controversy with 2007’s Hounddog, which quickly became known as the Dakota Fanning rape movie. The actress is getting great buzz though for her work as a teenage rocker in the Sundance hitThe Runaways.
Kristen Stewart
$1.5 billion
Stewart is best known for her work in the Twilight movies, where she stars as love-struck teen Bella Swan. But she’s been acting since 2002 when she starred with Jodie Foster in the tense David Fincher thriller Panic Room. Up next: She co-stars as Joan Jett opposite Dakota Fanning in The Runaways.
Taylor Lautner
$900 million
Lautner burst on the scene with last year’s New Moon playing Jacob the werewolf. Now he’s the hottest thing in Hollywood. The young star has been attached to two potential superhero franchises: Max Steel for Paramount andStretch Armstrong for Universal. He’ll earn a reported $7.5 million for each film.
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Dakota Fanning at the Tonight Show
Dakota Fanning dropped by the Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night, where she talks about driving dependent, paparazzi, mic tricks and many more.
Here is also the video interview of Kristen and Dakota for Access Hollywood.
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Dakota and Kristen: Their reactions on the Eclipse trailer
MTV was at the red carpet premiere of The Runaways where they interviewed Dakota and Kristen, asking them about the Eclipse premiere.
“Yeah, I saw it,” KStew said of the dazzling 90-second first look at the third “Twilight” movie. “It’s really fast and it’s really quick.”
“I was like, ‘Oh, OK,’ ” Stewart remembered of trying to take in all the quick cuts. “It was like watching stills. It’s hard for me to watch stuff, and initially my reaction is always a little strange.
“But I’m really excited,” summed up KStew, undoubtedly voicing the opinion of Twilighters everywhere. “I want to see more!”
As for Dakota…
Yeah, I am surprised I am in it,” the 15-year-old Volturi admitted, citing her brief shot strolling across a field and saying of Bella, “She’s still human; the Volturi don’t give second chances.”
“I can’t give it away, but I am in two scenes this time,” Fanning admitted of her limited role in the movie. “I wasn’t expecting [to see myself in the trailer]. But it’s really great.”
They also asked Kristen regarding her hair in The Runways and comparing her wig for Bella.
“I think Dakota was more emotional than I was, to be honest,” she said. “She, like, almost cried when I cut my hair. It was something I needed to do. I needed to feel the sweat coming down my face and, like, I needed to be able to touch it. I just needed to do it.”
“It was fine. I’ve worn wigs before, just not with such … I just felt such a tactile thing with Joan [that I cut my hair for the role],” she told MTV News on the red carpet of “The Runaways” premiere. “She holds all of her energy in her hands. I can be Bella without my hair, but I couldn’t play Joan without.”
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The Runaways – LA Premiere
The Runways made its LA premiere last night at the ArcLight Cinemas in Hollywood, California. The main cast were there including Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning, Riley Keough, Michael Shannon and Tatum O’Neal.
Kristen and Dakota’s Twilight co-star Taylor Lautner also attended the premiere.
To view more images, click on the link above or head to our gallery.
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Initial Round-up:The Runaways Interviews
The press interviews for The Runaways was held recently and now, video interviews and articles about the cast and themovie are starting to trickle out. Here are some interviews that have been posted by the different news agencies.
Kristen and Dakota talked about being rock stars and how this film gave them a chance to do it.
“We couldn’t be more [like rockers],” Stewart explained of the gig portraying Joan Jett during her early days in the hard-partying all-girl band. “This is the biggest opportunity to be a rock star.”
“Yeah, the closest I’m ever going to get is when I was performing ‘Cherry Bomb,’ ” Fanning said of the signature song for Cherie Currie, which she sings in the movie at several clubs and house parties while being pelted with trash and flipped off by the very punk-rock crowds the band attracted. “I guess that was the biggest moment of being an actor: pretending to be a rock star. That’s as close as I’m ever going to get.”
“You literally are suited up and put in the exact same position [where a rocker would stand],” Kristen explained of shooting the biopic for filmmaker Floria Sigismondi, who captures the ’70s rock scene with amazing attention to detail. “You couldn’t [be any more of one] unless you really were a rock star.”
How their parents are comfortable with the roles they took
How do your parents feel about watching you act out some of these sexual and drug-infested situations? Is it hard for them?
Dakota: “One of the first movies I ever did was a pretty intense subject matter, so my parents have kind of gotten used to it by now. They know it’s just acting. They know it doesn’t come home with me.”
Kristen: [To Dakota.] “Do you find that it’s gotten easier [for our parents]? Because I find that it has.”Why?
Kristen: “I was more nervous about it when I was younger, and it was a slow wearing down of like, ‘OK, Kristen’s going to do what she’s going to do. She’s just going to do these movies.’ Not that they were against it; I just sort of took away that projection. I sort of didn’t care anymore, you know, ‘Are you guys cool with this?’ “
Q: What was it like for you guys to get into playing Joan Jett and Cherie Currie? Kristen, you and Joan seem to have a similar energy, but Dakota, you seem so different from Cherie Currie. How was it to portray these women?
Dakota: I think it’s a huge departure from other roles that I’ve played, and me, in real life. It’s obviously very different from things that I’ve done before, and it will be different for people to see, but I like that. I like surprising people with different things that I can do. That’s what I love to do. And, I hope to do more roles like this, in the future.
Kristen: Me and Joan really do understand each other, and that’s a rare thing. Connection is not something that’s common, or easy to describe. But, I really actually think that we both have a lot of idiosyncracies and ticks that are really different. I don’t have her little things that she does. And, I also think that, especially based on when I did this movie and how much time I had to think about doing the movie before I went to go make it, I’ve done a lot of press within that time and I was sort of wearing her. People projected that onto me, a little bit. I really do feel like it was an easy thing to step into, and it wasn’t a huge departure, but I do feel a little bit like I was just in that head space and projected that a little bit.
Q: What was your working relationship with Joan and Cherie like?
Kristen: For me, I’m so thankful to both of them. We’re just lucky that this movie happens to involve them. You can make movies about public figures, but the fact that Joan wanted to be a producer and wanted to be on set every day and was so open about a time that was so important to her, it definitely says something about the people that they hired to play the parts. She easily could have just said, “Get someone else. I can’t tell this girl what I need to tell her.”
There were things that we needed to know that aren’t necessarily in the movie. Not details, but just personal reflections, like the way they feel about things. So, it was nice having them there. Also, it helped with the details ‘cause we can’t know how everything really happened and it would be really awful to try to make it up and fill in the blanks, when it can just be real. It was cool to be able to make it real.
Q: What specific details did they give you, that struck home and really helped you with your performances?
Dakota: The thing that always sticks out for me is the scene where Cherie first meets Joan and Kim in Rodney’s English Disco. The way it was written, it could have been that Cherie was acting a little too cool and trying to put on this heir of being better than them. And, Cherie was there that day and told me, “Yeah, I was actually really starstruck, when they came over to talk to me. I was a really big fan of Joan and couldn’t believe that they were actually coming over to talk to me.” So, that saved that whole scene. Otherwise, it would have been completely not authentic to what it was. Just having her there was great. That’s something that I always think could have been since a false moment in the movie, and thank goodness that she was there to tell me.
Kristen: The way the script was written, and just because of the dialogue, the way Kim deals with the girls is really aggressive and overbearing, and almost like he’s leading them down a path that they wouldn’t have otherwise gone down, and that he’s trying to make them into something they’re not. Every time, I thought, “Wow, I would have punched him in the face,” Joan would be like, “No, you’d laugh at him. You love the guy. He’s hilarious. You aspire to be as crazy and freaky as him.” I read the script going, “God, what a jerk,” but it was like, “No, you love Kim.” There was no way of knowing that without Joan.
Working with Joan Jett, rocking out and many more
TeenHollywood: Was it really helpful to have the real Joan and Cherie, the two people you played, around so you could chat with them about the roles?
Dakota: I think it’s amazing when you have the actual people there. It’s like the ultimate. With all characters, if there were a real person you could talk to, it would be amazing.
Kristen: Yeah.
Dakota: And when you are actually living someone’s life over again, for them, it has to be so surreal and you want them to be as involved as they want to be and, luckily, they wanted to be as involved as we wanted them to be.
Kristen: Yeah.
(Turning to Dakota) Hey, I just abbreviated both of those bands and I sound like I know… (something). It was cool to get to know music that was just a little bit more obscure. Like Suzy Quatro is not something that is a staple of our generation.
In terms of being able to play rock ‘n roll, I don’t know, I just really love this movie because they were the first girl band. It’s crazy and people don’t know that too. There’s an aggression and an assertiveness that people didn’t want to see from girls then that comes through their music and, at the same time, it’s so feminine. It’s a distinct aggression. It’s not male. I love that and that’s why I think the movie is cool or should be cool.
Dakota: My musical tastes have definitely been broadened from this movie and I have really found that I can’t get out of listening to The Runaways and Joan because it just brings back the memories of making the movie and I love it so much and it makes me happy (she and Kristen laugh). So, I listen to that a lot.
Before that, I loved music but I’m not a huge music person. I don’t listen to a ton of music but that’s definitely changed after doing this. I really wanted to be part of this to maybe bring The Runaways to a different audience that maybe didn’t know about them before because I wasn’t aware of them before and I feel like that’s a lot of people in our generation and I think that’s wrong so (she and Kristen share another giggle).
TeenHollywood: Did you have any hesitation to do the singing yourself or do you just do a lot of singing on your own?
Dakota: (laughs) Not really. I don’t. But, I think I never thought of doing it any other way. I thought that’s what would be asked of me. I feel like you’re almost cheating when you don’t actually do it. I just would have felt like I was missing something.
TeenHollywood: Talk about your own musical tastes. I read that you didn’t know anything about The Runaways. And, what did you learn in terms of rock ‘n roll by playing the parts?
Kristen: I have a pretty varied taste in music I think and it is primarily rock music; the big umbrella of what I’m into. I’m not that into hip-hop but I like both. This was a cool experience because there are a lot of bands that Joan is really influenced by bands that I know that are obvious; like the Stones she’s obsessed with. Just obvious stuff. Like she listens to (Led) Zeppelin and just loses her mind.
To read the rest of the interviews, please click on the links above.
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Kristen Stewart: Kissing Dakota Fanning
The Runaways will be released in a week’s time and during the film’s press conference, Kristen Stewart addresses one of the film’s controversial scene – kissing Dakota Fanning.
“She was 15, and I wasn’t allowed to grope her,” Kristen, 19, told Access Hollywood on Wednesday at the press junket for her new rocker film. “I’m actually not kidding, there are major restrictions that I don’t remember [from] when I was younger.
“I don’t want to give anything way. It’s a really passionate, hardcore scene,” she continued. “No, it’s just a kiss. It’s not really a big deal.”
“It looks great in the movie, but we are not close to the musicians that they are,” Kristen said.
Dakota also shared her thoughts about it.
“It’s just something that happened in their lives,” Dakota told Access of the kissing scene. “In the script, it’s not like a big build up or something that they talk about afterwards.”
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Kristen and Dakota: The Collider Interview
Collider interviewed Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning whilst filming The Runaways. Kristen and Dakota talked about being involved in the film, the place in history of the band and many more.
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7clips from The Runaways
Collider has premiered 7 clips from Kristen and Dakota’s new movie, The Runaways. This featurette includes the previous released clip of the first meeting between Joan Jett and Cherrie Currie and the first official video of the movie featuring the song, “Cherrybomb”.
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