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Spin: Behind the Scenes of 'The Runaways'
In the appropriately rank alley behind a small Los Angeles club called the Smell, Cherie Currie, former lead singer of the '70s all-girl band the Runaways, yells out to ing�nue-of-the-moment Kristen Stewart, standing a few feet away.
Currie could easily be referring to the actress' body temperature: The midday July weather is sweltering, and Stewart, dressed head-to-toe in black leather for the role of Currie's onetime bandmate Joan Jett in The Runaways, is wiping sweat from her forehead. Stewart is on a smoke break; beside her, Dakota Fanning, who plays Currie in the movie, munches on a veggie doodle. While two Twilight fans linger near a Dumpster down the block, hoping to glimpse the franchise's stars, the paparazzi -- who have hounded the production all month, much to writer-director Floria Sigismondi's frustration -- are absent on this, the second-to-last day of the shoot.
Currie is actually talking about how good Stewart looks as Jett, and indeed she does. Minutes before, Jett, also an executive producer, chatted privately with Stewart, their heads bowed, each with a raised hand grasping a chainlink fence, looking almost identical in all but age. (Also, the 51-year-old Jett's 'do is shorter than her 19-year-old doppelg�nger's era-accurate shag.) As Stewart gets ready to go back inside, she smiles awkwardly and says simply, "So was Joan."
Millions of people probably know that Stewart cut and dyed her hair black last year, which is far more than can name a single Runaways song. (Neither Stewart nor Fanning had even heard of the band before being cast.) The Runaways were five teenage girls writing and performing aggressive, sexually defiant rock music during a time when all of their peers were older and few were female.
Yet the band's importance remains canonical rather than commercial. Though the self-proclaimed "queens of noise" could "actually play," as reviews at the time noted with surprise and more than a trace of skepticism, the Runaways never sold the records here (their biggest album, their self-titled debut, moved 25,000 copies) that they did in Japan. They recorded four albums in four years and yielded only one enduring single, the teasing, debutante-debasing "Cherry Bomb," on which a 15-year-old Currie promises, "I'll give ya something to live for / Have ya, grab ya, till you're sore."
Figuring the Runaways were ripe for rediscovery, seven years ago Jett's manager, Kenny Laguna, began shopping around an idea for a script based on a revised, more explicit edition of Currie's 1989 autobiography, Neon Angel (out this month to coincide with the film), at one point tapping an as-yet-unmasked JT LeRoy to write it. "I thought it was important to define history," says Laguna. "If they did a movie about the Go-Go's or the Bangles, then they would be remembered as the band that broke down the barriers."
Spin
Sunday, November 22, 2009
Nikki Reed talks music with Spin
Spin talked to Nikki Reed about music.
Name a song that you�ve listened to in the past 24 hours.
�She�s Only Happy in the Sun.� It�s nonstop Ben Harper in my apartment. My first boyfriend played me this song when I was 14 because my life back then was all about going to Venice Beach. Luckily, we didn�t have a bad breakup, so I don�t have any painful memories attached to the music.
On that note, what song do you associate with your first kiss?
D�Angelo�s �How Does It Feel� was playing at the time � in my head. Honestly, the most memorable make-out sessions I ever had were in [the 2003 movie] Thirteen. Those were hardcore.
Who would you like to portray in a rock biopic?
Rickie Lee Jones. Last year I went to see her at the Largo [in L.A.] on Valentine�s Day by myself. She seems eccentric. She started telling stories about her childhood, and I was thinking, �Oh, maybe this is the night when she wants to make this a personal experience.� But it turns out she does that all the time.
What�s the first album you bought with your own money?
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. I liked her in Sister Act 2. Also, I grew up in an area where I was a minority, so it was culturally diverse.
Do you have a go-to karaoke song?
I don�t drink, and karaoke is something you should only do drunk. But I�m obsessed with Adele. I put on �Chasing Pavements� and sing it in my apartment. The great thing about Adele is if you put her on top volume, you actually sound like her while you�re singing. I�ve gotten a few complaints from the neighbors.
What�s the most prized T-shirt in your collection?
[Friend and New Moon star] Kristen [Stewart] and I share a lot of clothes, so I wear a lot of Joan Jett shirts.
Kristen is playing her in a movie.
Yeah, Joan made replicas of the ones she used to wear in the �80s and gave them to us.
What�s the last concert you attended?
I saw the Dead Weather in Vancouver, where we�re shooting [the third Twilight film] Eclipse. I got really into Jack White two years ago because of my friend Sage. She quizzes me on rock music, asking me things like �Who�s your favorite Beatle?�
So who is your favorite Beatle?
I guess Paul McCartney. This is going to be a controversial thing to say, but I don�t really understand the Beatles. If Kristen were here right now, she would slap me across the face. Then again, if I ask her, �What�s the first line of Biggie�s �Juicy�?� she wouldn�t know. Why don�t people sit around and talk about Ol� Dirty Bastard the way they do the Beatles?
Source: Twilight Poison
Name a song that you�ve listened to in the past 24 hours.
�She�s Only Happy in the Sun.� It�s nonstop Ben Harper in my apartment. My first boyfriend played me this song when I was 14 because my life back then was all about going to Venice Beach. Luckily, we didn�t have a bad breakup, so I don�t have any painful memories attached to the music.
On that note, what song do you associate with your first kiss?
D�Angelo�s �How Does It Feel� was playing at the time � in my head. Honestly, the most memorable make-out sessions I ever had were in [the 2003 movie] Thirteen. Those were hardcore.
Who would you like to portray in a rock biopic?
Rickie Lee Jones. Last year I went to see her at the Largo [in L.A.] on Valentine�s Day by myself. She seems eccentric. She started telling stories about her childhood, and I was thinking, �Oh, maybe this is the night when she wants to make this a personal experience.� But it turns out she does that all the time.
What�s the first album you bought with your own money?
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. I liked her in Sister Act 2. Also, I grew up in an area where I was a minority, so it was culturally diverse.
Do you have a go-to karaoke song?
I don�t drink, and karaoke is something you should only do drunk. But I�m obsessed with Adele. I put on �Chasing Pavements� and sing it in my apartment. The great thing about Adele is if you put her on top volume, you actually sound like her while you�re singing. I�ve gotten a few complaints from the neighbors.
What�s the most prized T-shirt in your collection?
[Friend and New Moon star] Kristen [Stewart] and I share a lot of clothes, so I wear a lot of Joan Jett shirts.
Kristen is playing her in a movie.
Yeah, Joan made replicas of the ones she used to wear in the �80s and gave them to us.
What�s the last concert you attended?
I saw the Dead Weather in Vancouver, where we�re shooting [the third Twilight film] Eclipse. I got really into Jack White two years ago because of my friend Sage. She quizzes me on rock music, asking me things like �Who�s your favorite Beatle?�
So who is your favorite Beatle?
I guess Paul McCartney. This is going to be a controversial thing to say, but I don�t really understand the Beatles. If Kristen were here right now, she would slap me across the face. Then again, if I ask her, �What�s the first line of Biggie�s �Juicy�?� she wouldn�t know. Why don�t people sit around and talk about Ol� Dirty Bastard the way they do the Beatles?
Source: Twilight Poison
Nikki Reed talks music with Spin
Spin talked to Nikki Reed about music.
Name a song that you�ve listened to in the past 24 hours.
�She�s Only Happy in the Sun.� It�s nonstop Ben Harper in my apartment. My first boyfriend played me this song when I was 14 because my life back then was all about going to Venice Beach. Luckily, we didn�t have a bad breakup, so I don�t have any painful memories attached to the music.
On that note, what song do you associate with your first kiss?
D�Angelo�s �How Does It Feel� was playing at the time � in my head. Honestly, the most memorable make-out sessions I ever had were in [the 2003 movie] Thirteen. Those were hardcore.
Who would you like to portray in a rock biopic?
Rickie Lee Jones. Last year I went to see her at the Largo [in L.A.] on Valentine�s Day by myself. She seems eccentric. She started telling stories about her childhood, and I was thinking, �Oh, maybe this is the night when she wants to make this a personal experience.� But it turns out she does that all the time.
What�s the first album you bought with your own money?
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. I liked her in Sister Act 2. Also, I grew up in an area where I was a minority, so it was culturally diverse.
Do you have a go-to karaoke song?
I don�t drink, and karaoke is something you should only do drunk. But I�m obsessed with Adele. I put on �Chasing Pavements� and sing it in my apartment. The great thing about Adele is if you put her on top volume, you actually sound like her while you�re singing. I�ve gotten a few complaints from the neighbors.
What�s the most prized T-shirt in your collection?
[Friend and New Moon star] Kristen [Stewart] and I share a lot of clothes, so I wear a lot of Joan Jett shirts.
Kristen is playing her in a movie.
Yeah, Joan made replicas of the ones she used to wear in the �80s and gave them to us.
What�s the last concert you attended?
I saw the Dead Weather in Vancouver, where we�re shooting [the third Twilight film] Eclipse. I got really into Jack White two years ago because of my friend Sage. She quizzes me on rock music, asking me things like �Who�s your favorite Beatle?�
So who is your favorite Beatle?
I guess Paul McCartney. This is going to be a controversial thing to say, but I don�t really understand the Beatles. If Kristen were here right now, she would slap me across the face. Then again, if I ask her, �What�s the first line of Biggie�s �Juicy�?� she wouldn�t know. Why don�t people sit around and talk about Ol� Dirty Bastard the way they do the Beatles?
Source: Twilight Poison
Name a song that you�ve listened to in the past 24 hours.
�She�s Only Happy in the Sun.� It�s nonstop Ben Harper in my apartment. My first boyfriend played me this song when I was 14 because my life back then was all about going to Venice Beach. Luckily, we didn�t have a bad breakup, so I don�t have any painful memories attached to the music.
On that note, what song do you associate with your first kiss?
D�Angelo�s �How Does It Feel� was playing at the time � in my head. Honestly, the most memorable make-out sessions I ever had were in [the 2003 movie] Thirteen. Those were hardcore.
Who would you like to portray in a rock biopic?
Rickie Lee Jones. Last year I went to see her at the Largo [in L.A.] on Valentine�s Day by myself. She seems eccentric. She started telling stories about her childhood, and I was thinking, �Oh, maybe this is the night when she wants to make this a personal experience.� But it turns out she does that all the time.
What�s the first album you bought with your own money?
The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. I liked her in Sister Act 2. Also, I grew up in an area where I was a minority, so it was culturally diverse.
Do you have a go-to karaoke song?
I don�t drink, and karaoke is something you should only do drunk. But I�m obsessed with Adele. I put on �Chasing Pavements� and sing it in my apartment. The great thing about Adele is if you put her on top volume, you actually sound like her while you�re singing. I�ve gotten a few complaints from the neighbors.
What�s the most prized T-shirt in your collection?
[Friend and New Moon star] Kristen [Stewart] and I share a lot of clothes, so I wear a lot of Joan Jett shirts.
Kristen is playing her in a movie.
Yeah, Joan made replicas of the ones she used to wear in the �80s and gave them to us.
What�s the last concert you attended?
I saw the Dead Weather in Vancouver, where we�re shooting [the third Twilight film] Eclipse. I got really into Jack White two years ago because of my friend Sage. She quizzes me on rock music, asking me things like �Who�s your favorite Beatle?�
So who is your favorite Beatle?
I guess Paul McCartney. This is going to be a controversial thing to say, but I don�t really understand the Beatles. If Kristen were here right now, she would slap me across the face. Then again, if I ask her, �What�s the first line of Biggie�s �Juicy�?� she wouldn�t know. Why don�t people sit around and talk about Ol� Dirty Bastard the way they do the Beatles?
Source: Twilight Poison
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