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Joan Jett Talks About Kristen and The Runaways

By | Published Tuesday, October 8, 2013


What was it like to work with Kristen Stewart when she portrayed you? Do you think she did a good job in her role of you?

I do think she did a good job. I think she was extremely dedicated to it, chopped all her hair off and really immersed herself in everything she could find about the Runaways and I helped her find some things, told her some things that I had never told anybody ever, not even for the book, how you function in life or what I was thinking at the time to give her insight into myself and my family. All of the actors did the best that they could with what they had, and it's a great story and it should be told. For me as the artist, you always wish that they would choose something more substantial than showing a tiff. But beyond that I thought they did a really good job.

And she really played guitar too! Which helped. So I could discuss how I play the guitar, how I hold the guitar, the way I stand. A lot of things I didn't realize I was doing until I saw her onscreen and realized oh my god I do that stuff. She noticed that, and picked up on it before I ever would have. Little things that people don't notice, but I guess if you're a good actor you do.
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New Fan Picture of Kristen at the Joan Jett Concert - August 1, 2013

By | Published Friday, August 2, 2013




ninastrauss What an amazing night with Carmen Electra on my right side and Kristen Stewart to my left with Joan Jett performing, what can I say? I LOVE HOLLYWOOD!

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Joan Jet talks about The Runaways and Kristen; She was very dedicated to becoming me'

By | Published Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Starts at 1:01 talking about 'The Runaways and how involved she was'

She mentions Kristen at 2:31: She talks about her performance as 'Joan Jet'



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Joan Jet talks about Kristen in New Interview

By | Published Saturday, June 4, 2011

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Joan says the experience of seeing her own life played out before her was ‘surreal’.
"Just seeing Dakota and Kristen and Michael Shannon dressed as myself and Cherie and Kim, was surreal as they looked so much like us."

When asked about  Kristen Stewart’s representation of her
"Kristen had my posture, you know, the way I stand in space. It was really freaky. My friends and family saw it and thought she nailed it."

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FLASHBACK VIDEO: Joan Jett talks about Kristen Stewart

By | Published Tuesday, April 26, 2011



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Joan Jett Talks About Kristen Stewart On Radio In Australia

By | Published Friday, January 14, 2011

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Joan Jett says it was really weird to look up on the screen and do a double take at Kristen (Stewart) as me + answers some more questions.

By | Published Sunday, January 2, 2011


HOW WAS IT SEEING YOUR LIFE ON SCREEN IN THE FILM, THE RUNAWAYS?
It's really surreal. It wasn't bad; it was a good experience, but it was really weird to look up on the screen and do a double take at Kristen (Stewart) as me. I think all the actresses did amazing jobs at presenting us. I can't say enough about that.

WHAT DID YOU AND STEWART TALK ABOUT?
I did tell Kristen things that I wouldn't tell anybody else. That was just back story, Runaways stuff, or my feelings about something just to give her a sense of who I was beyond this Joan Jett person. Who was Joan? To try to give her a sense of where I was coming from. Why I was so strident. Why it was so important tome.



This is really sweet of Jett to talk to Kristen like this:) I really like her:)

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Joan Jett talks to "She" about rock and The Runaways - Kristen Mention

By | Published Friday, December 24, 2010

On her involvement with The Runaways movie:

I wanted to be around for the filming. You know, the reason I never cared about a movie about my life was that I didn’t want anyone to f--k it up. I would be so crazy if someone made a Runaways movie that I hated, you know?

On Kristin Stewart playing her in the film:

I was thrilled … I met up with Kristen and we got along really well … she really studied me — she got down my body language, my voice inflections, expressions. We’re actually very similar. We’re a lot alike, in our energy, when we talk about stuff, being all over the map.[Laughs]

She was so committed. I remember asking her, early on, if she was going to cut her hair for the film and she said, "Absolutely." I think that helped her to feel like me, rather than wearing a wig. It was good. She wanted me on the set every day. So that was cool.

On the attention surrounding the kissing scene between Stewart and Dakota Fanning as Cherie Currie:

You know, I was concerned when I saw it in the script. Concerned isn’t really the word. I guess, yeah, I thought about [the “lesbian” scene] becoming the focus. But you know the media. It is what it is.

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Joan Jett Mentions Kristen in New Interview

By | Published Wednesday, December 15, 2010

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(..) this year, the singer/guitarist was given the chance to relive her teenage years all over again with the release of the film The Runaways, in which Twilight star Kristen Stewart played Jett. Those years defined the woman that Jett is today.

The film was a success with critics - even Jett approved of Stewart's performance.
"She's a fantastic girl," Jett says

More of her interview at heraldsun!

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New Picture of Kristen with Joan Jett

By | Published Sunday, September 5, 2010

It's so new to me i don't know if you have ever seen it but here it is just in case:) They both look HOT!!

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Interview with Joan Jett- Kristen mention

By | Published Wednesday, August 18, 2010


Translation:
Joan Jett: I Lived in a dream.

Tomorrow Joan Jett plays before GreenDay at Ullevi Gothenburg. But she prefers going around in the small towns.

- People get so excited that we come all the way there, plus it is so fun to be able to reach out as much as possible, she says.

Jett has both the concert and a movie coming up in Sweden, even though The runaways won't screen at the cinema.
In the beginning she has second thoughts about making the movie and talks about Hollywoods bad #track record" regarding movies. But since it was personal she'd rather be involved than not.

Do you like the movie?

- It is hard to say yes or no. At least it gives the feeling of what we were going through. And people who knows me says (Kristen) Stewart did a great job, says Joan Jett.

How is it like seeing your life being portrayed?

- Very strange. Bu nice. Some parts are ofcourse exaggerated, but that goes with the film making I suppose.

So how was it during that time?

- I was living in a dream, in a rockband that had the opportunity to tour around the world, and we had incredibly fun. But like in all close groups there are moments of harmony and moments when no one could agree with one an other

You were so young, 15-16 years old, what did your parents say?

- honestly, they didn't know how big it was. My mom drove me to rehersals but never saw the shady sides. I warned her before the movie, says Joan Jett.
Thanks to Gossip-Dance for the translation

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Joan Jett talks about Kristen

By | Published Friday, June 18, 2010



"So much happened. It’s hard to fit it all in, but the film definitely gives you a sense of what it was like to be in that band. The actors were incredible. Kristen Stewart [who plays Joan] was great. She’s a real person, down-to-earth, authentic. She put real pressure on herself to do the work. We spent a lot of time together over the two weeks before we started shooting. We were in the studio rehearshing, getting them to play instruments to the music. It was a lot for these girls to become a band in a short time, but by the time we started shooting they had a definite sense of ‘hey, we’re in a band’. It’s important that they were able to get that sense of camaraderie across.”



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Joan Jett talks about Kristen in new interview - "She’s a real person, down-to-earth, authentic"

By | Published Thursday, June 17, 2010




In autumn a film chronicling the band’s breakneck career will be released, called simply The Runaways . Jett was heavily involved in the project, and is proud of it. Rather than a complete biopic, she thinks of it as “a snippet of The Runaways’ career”.

“So much happened. It’s hard to fit it all in, but the film definitely gives you a sense of what it was like to be in that band. The actors were incredible. Kristen Stewart [who plays Joan] was great. She’s a real person, down-to-earth, authentic. She put real pressure on herself to do the work. We spent a lot of time together over the two weeks before we started shooting. We were in the studio rehearshing, getting them to play instruments to the music. It was a lot for these girls to become a band in a short time, but by the time we started shooting they had a definite sense of ‘hey, we’re in a band’. It’s important that they were able to get that sense of camaraderie across.”

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New Runaways Review-Kristen "is terrific as Joan Jett"

By | Published Wednesday, April 28, 2010


Yes, Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning star in this one, but for anyone expecting a natural progression from a certain vampire series, a word of warning (or endorsement, depending on your point of view): The Runaways is dripping with sex. It’s about music fuelled by the furious desire to have an orgasm, a celebration of the X chromosome, chicks with guitars and other feminist thesis fodder. The Runaways is just the latest band biopic to vamp on that familiar riff of sex, drugs and you-know-what, but with the girls finally taking centrestage. Played by Kristen Stewart, Joan Jett exudes badass. Shag-haired and clad in a guy’s studded leather jacket – there are precious few female role models for her to look up to – she’s hell-bent on breaking some strings and blowing some amps. When a music teacher informs her that “Girls don’t play electric guitar,” she chooses to take it as a personal challenge. Providing counterpoint is Dakota Fanning as Cherie Currie, a platinum blonde nymphet who is just as much a rebel and misfit as Joan; she is quietly, perversely pleased by the violent reception she gets for her David Bowie lip-sync performance at a school talent show. Joan and Cherie (and a couple of not-as-important band members) come together under the tattered wing of rock impresario Kim Fowley (Michael Shannon from Revolutionary Road). The Runaways are born in a derelict trailer park, with Joan on the axe and Cherie rocking the mic, as they promptly bust out their feisty classic ‘Cherry Bomb’ with next to no effort.

As you might expect from Sigismondi’s credentials, The Runaways looks and sounds great. It has a grainy, gritty visual style that perfectly complements the rough-edged energy of the music. What lets it down is the script, which seems to have been assembled out of hazy memories during a bad hangover. It was based on Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway, Cherie Currie’s 1989 memoir, which partially explains why the movie turns into the story of Cherie – the one who ended up running away from The Runaways. There is, subsequently a big blind spot where Joan’s personal journey should be. One gets the impression she ceases to exist when she unstraps her guitar. It’s a missed opportunity.

That said, Kristen Stewart looks good in a leather jacket, and is terrific as Joan Jett. Heck, when she knocks together her own Sex Pistols T-shirt and casually flips herself the V in the mirror as she’s trying it on, you believe she is Joan Jett. Unlike Robert Pattinson, whose dreadful Remember Me opened a week earlier Stateside, Stewart proves herself a very capable performer, and leaves the Twihards coughing dust in her wake. It was a calculated decision to leave Bella Swan far behind, but the right one to make. Dakota Fanning is also remarkable as the girl thrust unprepared into fame, no doubt a story she knows well. Thing is, it’s hard to get behind her the way you want to, since Sigismondi has a knack for moving on quickly just as things are getting interesting – the film, for instance, hints at a relationship between Joan and Cherie but then doesn’t know what to do with it. Perhaps another byproduct of Sigismondi’s music video experience: she doesn’t want to linger for fear of being boring.

Just as the original band owed their success to part-manager, part-pimp Kim Fowley, this movie gets it mojo from Michael Shannon, who is in a class of his own as the cocksure Fowley training his chicks. It’s Fowley that brands the girls as fetish objects, works them like a drill sergeant at band boot camp, exploits them, abuses them. (Verbally that is. It’s been suggested that Fowley abused them in ways not purely verbal, but that isn’t addressed here.) It’s a fierce performance of the sort of character you only get in real life – since in fiction he’d probably need some redemptive qualities. America didn’t really warm to all-girl ’70s rock group The Runaways the first time round. They barely made a dent in the charts and disbanded after five years. If this film achieves anything, it’s bringing Joan Jett and The Runaways to a whole new audience, which is nice. It’s just a shame that it doesn’t quite manage to rock as hard as The Runaways did.

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