Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart show some girl-on-girl intimacy in their new movie, The Runaways, which is premiering at Sundance.
The actresses, who play bitter enemies — a vampire and a human — in Twilight: New Moon, talked with MTV about kissing each other in The Runaways, the biopic about the all girl band of the same name, and said they didn’t think it was a big deal, shrugging off the inevitable hype.
“I don’t think it was ever a big deal to me,” explained Fanning, 15 — who plays Runaways lead singer Cherie Currie — adding that the scene between Cherie and Joan Jett (Kristen Stewart) “was just a thing, another day” for the characters.
Stewart, 19, echoed Fanning’s sentiment and insisted that the portrayal of Currie and Jett’s relationship wasn’t in any way a movie ploy or a way to shock the audience or Twilight fans. “It was never a big deal to me either … especially the way it was written into the story and the way it wasn’t, ‘And they finally get together,’” she told MTV. “It’s like it was just one night, and they have such an awesome bond that’s so cool to observe, so the fact that they made out when they were teenagers has nothing to do with it.”
HitFix.com, however, has Cherie Currie’s take on the subject. In an interview, HitFix asked Currie, who has mostly positive things to say about the movie, “How did you feel about how they handled your love scenes with Joan? Did you feel that was accurate?”
And she replied, “No. A little overplayed. I mean, Joan and I just had a great friendship. I clung to her. She kept me sane. She had this vision. All her life she knew what she wanted to be. I wasn’t quite sure until I saw my first Bowie concert, which was a few months before I joined the Runaways. We were just best friends. And there were some drugs going on. Back then in the ’70s, if you didn’t do drugs they thought there was something wrong with you. So, and at that time, bisexuality, David Bowie, Elton John, people were coming out of the closet. It was just right in that time when the experimental factor kicked it. That’s really all it was, just a couple of girls having fun. No in-love relationship kind of thing, girlfriend/girlfriend, it wasn’t that way. We were just coping with having fun. And we had a lot of fun on the road, we really did.”





