Kristen Stewart was banned from "groping" Dakota Fanning during their onscreen kiss for new movie 'The Runaways', because her co-star was just 15 when they shot the steamy scene.
The pair puckered up for a kesbian smooch during the film, about the 1970s rock group and featuring the Twilight actress as Joan Jett and Fanning as her bandmate Cherie Currie.
And Stewart, 19, admits she was restricted by working practice regulations when they filmed the kiss, because Fanning was so young.
She told Access Hollywood, "She was 15, and I wasn't allowed to grope her. I'm actually not kidding, there are major restrictions that I don't remember (from) when I was younger." She also dished, "I don't want to give anything way. It's a really passionate, hardcore scene."
Dakota Fanning & Kristen Stewart looked looking cute and cold in snowy Park City, Utah on Jan. 23 to promote their new film 'The Runaways' in The Sundance Film Festival.
Dakota Fanning is amused that she is finally able to wear a size zero clothes without having them taken in. Dakota told V Magazine: 'Now that I'm getting older, I'm finally getting to the point where I can fit into those things'.
About her role on The Runaways (sexy wild child rocker with a girl-on-girl kiss), she dished: 'I really enjoyed doing that subject matter for the first time in a biopic, because it really happened, it's not just a made-up story about a 15-year-old running wild. It's a true story of her evolution from good Valley Girl to bad rock 'n roll princess'.
She shared about her kissing Kristen Stewart: 'It's passionate,they were just as close as two could get'.
About drugs, specially the cocaine: 'It's actually crushed B vitamins. Kristen and I were, like, our hair is gonna grow a lot from these'.
The Runaways (Neon Angels) is based on lead-singer Cherie Currie's book 'Neon Angel' - a reflection of her experiences as a rock star, but also delivering a strong anti-drug warning to teens and others. David Bowie's "Space Oddity" serves as a metaphor for the narrative-- a slow countdown, a surreal but spectacular rise to fame, then alienation and burnout - a long long way from home.
The movie chronicles THE RUNAWAYS from 1975 - 1977; formed by teenage girls living near Hollywood, CA., and heavily manipulated by their manager Kim Fowley as 'jailbait rock' (all the girls were 16 or younger when the band recorded their first album). The band ultimately succeeds on their own merits as musicians, becoming the first all-girl rock-band to ever break into the world of arena-filling hard rock acts.
The movie focuses on the band's formation, and their meteoric rise to fame. Their first single, 'Cherry Bomb', gets some attention in the United States, where THE RUNAWAYS' U.S. tour hits major venues (Cobo Hall, with RUSH) and sleazy rock-clubs, often pairing them up with The Ramones, Cheap Trick, Tom Petty, and other popular 1970's rock acts. But 'Cherry Bomb' and several other songs from THE RUNAWAYS' first 2 albums become huge hits in Japan -- and their arrival for a set of shows there in 1977 is like Beatle-Mania. The band is overwhelmed by the Japanese reception. Almost prophetic, THE RUNAWAYS' last big hit song in Japan is 'Neon Angels On The Road To Ruin'.
Cherie is initially thrilled to be in the band, and lives the rock star life. She pushes the edge -- and their records sell well, generating lots of media controversy and hype. But during the tour of Japan, her personal life disnintegrates, and she burns out -- ultimately leaving The Runaways when they return to the U.S. The bass player (Jackie Fox) quits too, leaving only Lita Ford, Joan Jett and Sandy West. Joan Jett has decided that rock & roll is her life, and that The Runaways is her 'family'; she is upset by Cherie's decision to leave, but knows that decision is best -- for Cherie.
THE RUNAWAYS' success was earth-shaking in rock music -- changing the rules forever. But with the successful 5-girl lineup no longer intact after the Japan tour, their future was dubious, at best. Lita Ford (guitar) and Sandy West (drums) still think the band can make it big again, so they persevere with Joan Jett.
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