![]() It was everybody else who was freaked out by stuff. It's important to keep people thinking and guessing, and you want everyone to think you're singing to them.ĬNN: These days, there are artists who like pushing the envelope to create an edgy persona, like Lady Gaga.Ĭurrie: We never had to push the envelope. That's why I tend to keep my private life private. It would destroy the band because you can't deal with that much scrutiny, especially when you're a teenager. Jett: It may fuel interest, but it would destroy the band. Perhaps stories about what drugs you were doing and whether you were in a sexual relationship with each other would have fueled interest. ![]() Obviously, we were reviewed as we toured, but we didn't have the constant judgment, or the constant "What you did last night?" or wind up in the paper the next morning.ĬNN: In this day and age of TMZ, fans want to know every last detail about what goes on. More than the chaperone aspect of it, to me, is the 24/7 media that would be up your butt all the time. Jett: Yeah, maybe - but you'd have to have a chaperone. There are child labor laws.Ĭurrie: In another country, that could happen. Also, I think the girls that are playing us are too, in a degree, because of what they do, the nature of their job.ĬNN: Do you think the Runaways could have happened in 2010? Times are different. She was only 15 when she made the film - but that's exactly how old you were, Cherie, when you started in the band.Ĭherie Currie: We were older and wiser than our years I believe we really were. Obviously, it is a movie, so there were a few embellishments, but I think once I was able to pass all of that and realize that the main thing is the story, it was fine.ĬNN: Because we've known Dakota Fanning as a child actress, it was hard watching her taking pills in the movie and engage in overtly sexual behavior. I didn't run out of the theater and say, "Oh my God, it's so wrong!" You know what I mean? (They laugh.) Only kidding. Sometimes it's hard for people who live it to kind of see it, but I think overall, I wasn't upset. Joan Jett: I had a lot of repeating emotions. Last month, she performed the Runaways' first hit, "Cherry Bomb," on "The Tonight Show With Jay Leno."ĬNN's Denise Quan recently sat down with Currie and Jett to talk about their band days and their take on the new movie:ĬNN: What did you think of " The Runaways" movie when you saw it for the first time? At 51, Jett still tours with her post-Runaways group, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts. She recently sculpted a life-size guitar as a gift for Fanning on her 16th birthday. Former child star Dakota Fanning plays her on the big screen.Īs the first female outfit to play aggressive music, the Runaways were in-your-face, provocative and sexual - which was titillating to some and disturbing to others, especially since the girls were 15 and 16 at the time.Ĭurrie, now 50, is a chainsaw artist, carving mermaids and teddy bears out of tree stumps. ![]() The film is based on "Neon Angel," the memoir of singer Cherie Currie, who left the band after two tumultuous years of sex, drugs and of course, rock 'n' roll. The black shag haircut, the tomboyish gait, the New York accent (strange, since Jett is originally from Pennsylvania) - they're all traits nailed by "Twilight" actress Kristen Stewart in the new movie "The Runaways," about the life and times of the real-life '70s girl group. (CNN) - Joan Jett enters her hotel room with all the swagger of - well, Joan Jett.
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