![]() I really didn’t have the kind of power that I would have liked to have over the story. I wondered why couldn’t they put this in, or that in but she had a very clear idea of how they wanted this movie to play out. I think I was the first rock singer girl to do that.ĭD: The Runaways was based on your autobiography Neon Angel, but the film left out of the more disturbing aspects of The Runaways’ story.Ĭherie Currie: Some really crazy stuff went down, but how can you put two and a half years of peoples’ lives into an hour and a half? I had a couple of meetings with Floria (Sigismondi) and I voiced my feelings. I had just turned 16 and I was wearing a corset and fishnet stockings on stage. But I knew in under three minutes that was going to be the selling point. I walked over there and pressed my face up against the glass – I just knew I had to get that corset and wear it for 'Cherry Bomb'. When Joan (Jett) and I saw Kristen and Dakota shoot the Japanese television show scene, we both had tears in our eyes.Ĭherie Currie: I remember seeing the corset for the very first time – in the window of a lingerie store across from The Starwood (English Disco venue). Here, Currie – whose autobiography "Neon Angel" provided the basis for the film – talks exclusively to Dazed about her life on the rollercoaster of rock'n'roll excess.ĭazed Digital: How accurate was Dakota Fanning’s portrayal of the 15-year-old you?Ĭherie Currie: I have a picture of Dakota dressed as me on the set of the movie, and it’s still like a dream to me. Thirty years later,Cherie's story is finally being brought to life in "The Runaways": the glitter-soaked rock biopic by music video director Floria Sigismundi,which stars Dakota Fanning as Cherie and Kristen Stewart as Joan. ![]() As lead singer, Currie strutted her stuff in a corset, fishnet stockings, and not much else,briefly becoming the poster child of 1970s girl power before losing herself in the darker side of rock'n'roll. Cherie Currie was just 15 years old when a teenage Joan Jett spotted her at a glam rock nightclub in LA and asked her to front The Runaways, America's first all-girl rock band.
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