The Daily Telegraph Interview: “Dakota’s a drug, sex and rock chick”

Dakota talked to The Daily Telegraph about her grown-up role as Cherie Currie in The Runaways, how it really did fit her age. She also talked about how her career has developed from getting roles such as the one in Charlotte’s Web and now villain in The Twilight Saga and rock ‘n roll chick in The Runaways.

IN HER new film The Runaways, where she stars as Cherie Currie, singer of the 1970s all-girl teenage rock band who rises to fame quickly, before crashing just as rapidly, Dakota Fanning snorts cocaine, has sex with Kristen Stewart (who plays rocker Joan Jett), deals with an alcoholic father and an MIA mother, and suffers at the hands of an emotionally abusive manager.
Let’s just say it’s a long way from Charlottes Web.
“I really wanted to do it and I was pretty comfortable with it,” Fanning says of the film’s more adult content.
“I don’t think it’s so crazy, it’s someone’s life.”
As Currie, Fanning walks a tightrope between being completely luminous and utterly vulnerable. She manages to convey the drug addicted singer’s wounded soul with such an emotional depth, you forget that Fanning herself is only 16 years old.

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