The Runaways

Jett says she spends most days on the film’s set. "It’s been a really, really good experience, an interesting experience, very surreal experience. I think the actors are doing a brilliant job."

As for Stewart’s portrayal of her, Jett says, "I could not be happier. I’m absolutely thrilled with her as a person, as an actor. I’ve gotten to know her a bit over this time, and I can’t speak highly enough of her."

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και κατι απο Dakota:

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Νew kstew interview on the set of "the runaways"

It was 10pm and standing on the corner of Spring and 2nd Sts were six girls - all no older than 16.

They were holding Twilight books.

Twilight?

If you haven't heard of the Twilight phenomenon you do not have a teenage daughter, granddaughter, niece, cousin, sister or neighbour ...

Written by American author Stephenie Meyer, the Twilight novels centre around a teenage girl, Bella, falling in love with a young studly vampire dude, Edward.

Last year Twilight mania went big screen with the release of the first feature film based on the best-selling novels. The movie cost a measly $US37 million ($A44.88 million) to shoot in Portland, Oregon, but generated almost $US400 million ($A485.14 million) in box office dollars around the world.

The actors cast as Bella and Edward, Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, were transformed overnight from little-known actors to Hollywood's hottest young commodities.

With the help of Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, PerezHilton.com, TMZ.com etc, Twilight fans track Stewart and Pattinson 24/7.

When word leaked Stewart was shooting a new movie in downtown LA on the corner of Spring and 2nd Sts, the six girls sneaked out of home in the hope of snagging the starlet's signature.

The paparazzi were not far behind, elbow to elbow on the street corner with the teenyboppers attempting to get a shot of 19-year- old Stewart.

As a privileged, highly-respected (cough, cough) member of the media I didn't have to stand on a street corner to catch a glimpse, but was invited into the inner sanctum of Stewart's new movie, The Runaways.

This is not a Twilight film.

It is a biopic based on the drug and partying days of the 1970s teen girl band The Runaways that launched the careers of Joan Jett and Cherie Currie.

Stewart plays Jett, Dakota Fanning is Currie and Elvis Presley's granddaughter Danielle Riley Keough, in her first feature film, was cast as Currie's sister, Marie.

When you are on a set with Stewart it feels a little like standing in the heavily-fortified Green Zone in Baghdad.

Security is tight.

The cast's trailers are parked in an adjoining lot and arranged in a way to block the long lenses of the paparazzi attempting to shoot through the wire fence.

Photos of Stewart have become highly-profitable business because for The Runaways role she chopped off Bella's long locks and now sports Jett's trademark short, black hairdo.

The first Runaways star I spoke to was the very sweet Keough, who travelled the world as a model for Christian Dior and other top tier fashion houses before making her film debut in The Runaways.

Talk turns to the music she like to listen to.

"I like older music," she says.

"Bob Dylan, Daft Punk."

What about Elvis?

"Yeah," she laughs.

Fanning is almost unrecognisable as Cherie.

Her hair is bleach blonde, although you can see dark roots coming through.

What has happened to the girl that made me cry in I Am Sam?

"How do you like your hair?" I ask.

"It's a wig," she replies.

Ooops.

As the night drags on there is a rumour around set Stewart will not be available for an interview. At one point she walks out of her tailer and straight past me.

Not a good sign.

I chat with her personal assistant who assures me she will be chatting.

"She loves Australians," he says.

Stewart's mother is Australian and she has a border-collie dog named Oz.

"No worries cobber. She'll be right mate. I'll just crack a VB and get on the dog and bone while I wait," I say.

Her PA was correct, through the trailers she appears, a replica of a young Joan Jett.

Stewart is dressed in tight leather pants, leather jacket, sneakers and puffing on a cigarette.

"It is weird when you are nostalgic for a period you have never lived," Stewart, revealing her love for the 1970s, says.

"The 90s? Alright, whatever.

"The 70s? More was happening."

After an 18 minute chat Stewart was off to shoot a scene, protected by four large men carrying larger umbrellas.

The sneaky paparazzi worked out that a small laneway between the trailer compound and 2nd St where the street scene was being shot was public property, so they stood in the thoroughfare to get a shot of Stewart.

The fellas with the umbrellas did their best to block the cameras.

Over on the 2nd St Hollywood magic had turned the street into 1970s LA.

A shop front had been changed to Rodney Bingenheimer's, the iconic 1970s nightclub owned by the famed LA disc jockey.

1970s cars are parked along the street, including a mint condition Charger.

Leaning on the Charger is Nick Eversman, a skinny 23-year-old actor cast as Rocker Boy, a dude who engages in a passionate kiss with Jett outside of Bingenheimer's club.

This is a huge gig for Eversman, who proudly admits his day job is dressing up as a prawn outside of a Bubba Gump seafood restaurant adjacent to Universal Studios.

When I caught up with Eversman he was at the catering tent chowing down on an plate of unrecognisable food.

I asked the obvious question to a dude who was about to kiss the most famous teenage girl on the planet.

"How is your breath? Are you sure that food will not make your breath smell?" I ask.

"I made sure to brush my teeth today," he replies.

"I did bring my toothbrush with me."

To my surprise, Stewart and Eversman have not discussed their onscreen kiss. There is no rehearsal. When the cameras roll they will go for it.

"All the script says it is 'passionate'," Eversman says.

The second obvious question ... will tongue be involved?

Eversman is a gentleman.

He says he will wait to feel what Stewart offers.

If he feels tongue then he will offer his.

Late into the night The Runaways director Floria Sigismondi yells "action" and, with the real Joan Jett standing among the film crew, the lip action starts.

The teenyboppers are still on the corner hopeful of a signature.

The paparazzi are there to photograph Stewart and Eversman kissing so tabloid magazines can run Kristen Stewart's New Boyfriend stories.

The burly minders held up their large umbrellas to block the paparazzi.

Was there tongue or no tongue?

The Runaways releases next year so go buy a ticket.

Joan Jett Hopes Kristen Stewrt Film Is A Runaway Success

Joan Jett and her creative and business partner Kenny Laguna are expressing optimism for "The Runaways," the film based on the maligned but influential all-female rock band that Jett co-founded and led from 1975-79.The film, which is partly based on Runaways singer Cherie Currie's 1989 memoir "Neon Angel," features "Twilight" star Kristen Stewart as Jett, Dakota Fanning as Currie and Michael Shannon as original producer Kim Fowley. It was directed by Floria Sigismondi and is currently in post-production, with a release planned for 2010.

"It was very surreal and hard to put a word on," Jett, who executive produced the film and was on hand for the filming, tells Billboard.com. "If anything it definitely made me smile. It reinforces my love for the band and the fact I think it was an extremely important band, regardless of our level of success in America. It just reinforces my love of the whole time and of the band and what we did and how it was implausible and improbable at the same time."

And Jett hastens to explain that "The Runaways" is "absolutely not a biopic. It's not fact-for-fact. What they did was basically take elements from the Runaways story and created a parallel narrative."

Laguna adds that, "We're hoping it will be great. They exceeded our expectations with the casting...Even if it's not a huge movie, it's going to have a colossal effect on young girls playing rock 'n' roll, for sure."

Jett and Currie each coached their cinematic counterparts during the filming, and Jett was particularly impressed by Stewart, who came to the set almost immediately after wrapping the second "Twilight" film, "New Moon."

"Kristen was so into it, into the whole vibe of doing this," Jett reports. "I think she felt a weight and a responsibility to interpret it correctly. She was really serious about it and was watching me and asking me all sorts of question, from speech aspects to watching my body language, watching where I stood, watching my guitar playing. She really worked hard to get it right."

The Runaways were previously the subject of a 2004 documentary "Edgeplay: A Film About the Runaways."

Soundtrack details are currently being worked out for "The Runaways." Jett, meanwhile, is considering releasing a new greatest hits album in 2010 that may include some of the new material she's been working on.

angepsi έγραψε:

Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett on the set by EW

Aαααααα μ'αρεσει!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can't wait for the movieeee!!

της ταιριαζει πολυ ο ρολος....ειναι και εκεινη λιγο rock...

Αλλη μια φορα να αποδειξουμε ποσο μοιαζουν!!! Και εχει ωραια φωνη κιολας η Kristen μια χαρα.

Πότε βγαίνει η ταινία????

Νομιζω αρχες του 2010....Αν και δεν εχω βρει ακριβη ημερομηνια....

στισ 19 μαρτιου λενε αλλα στην αμερικη αλλα για το ποτε θα κανει πρεμιερα στην ελλαδα δεν ξερω

Πολυυυυυ αργοτερα λογικα.... Αλλα ευτυχως υπαρχει και το ιντερνετ....

αν αληθευει αυτο που διαβασα μολις τωρα αυριο το mtv θα δειξει το trailer απο την ταινια runaways ελπιζω να ειναι αληθεια

matia* έγραψε:

πιστευω πως θα ειναι τελεια σε αυτο το ρολο!!! θα της πηγαινει πολυ!!!! αντε ν ερθει και εδω να το δουμε!!!!

σιγουρα θα ειναι πολυ καλη! ειναι καλη ηθοποιος και ο ρολος της πηγαινει γαντι, εχει απο μονη ενα ροκ στυλακι τωρα θα ειναι τελεια!!
αντε να ερθει και στις ελλαδα να δουμε και να κρινουμε

dani έγραψε:

αν αληθευει αυτο που διαβασα μολις τωρα αυριο το mtv θα δειξει το trailer απο την ταινια runaways ελπιζω να ειναι αληθεια

αντε ωραια νομιζω πως η κριστεν σε αυτη την ταινια θα ειναι τελεια και τελειως διαφορετικη απο οτι τη εχουμε συνηθησει!

παιδια μολις τωρα ειδα ενα clip απο την ταινια και δεν περιγραφεται αυτο που ειδα ειναι τελεια η kristen παιζει απιθανα ειναι η πιο καταλληλη γιαυτον τον ρολο

ελπιζω να σου εδωσα το σωστο αν οχι ενημερωσε με

βασικα δεν εχεις βαλει κανενα..... δε το βλεπω τουλαχιστον εγω εδω...

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