Dakota Fanning Had No Doubts About ‘Runaways’ Role
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DAKOTA Fanning insists she had no difficulties playing The Runaways lead singer Cherie Currie in a biopic about the ’70s band.
The teen sensation — who stars opposite Twilight actress Kristen Stewart in The Runaways — says she was “excited” to take on such a “raw” and “gritty” role.
“I didn’t really have any doubts,” Fanning, 16, told Parade magazine. “I was OK with the gritty and the tough parts. That’s what I was most excited about because that’s when Cherie is really raw and open and you see her vulnerability.
“It was tough going to those places, but I’ve always been able to just go there and then come back. I’m able to leave it on the set. It’s not something that lives with me forever.
“I’ve never played an actual person before, so it was really wonderful to have Cherie Currie there on the set every day. And I just wanted to do her justice. I hoped that I could be half as good as she was and live up to what we love about The Runaways.
“I didn’t realize until the day I went into the recording studio, when it really hit me, that I was going to have to sing the songs, that my voice was going to be in movie. I just wanted to sing them right, the way Cherie does, because I knew that they were so iconic and so important to a lot of people.”
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