Kristen Stew : Dakota Is The Best Kisser

Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson's steamy makeout session in New Moon won top place in the "Best Kiss" category at the MTV Awards, and while most women would die for even a peck on the cheek from Edward Cullen, the sensual lip lock doesn't take first place in Kristen's book.

Who, then, does K-Stew rate as best kisser above her on and off screen lover?! Dakota Fanning, 16. That’s right. The two ladies kissed in their indie film “The Runaways,” in which they played rockers Joan Jett and Cherie Currie and though the scene wasn’t romantic from either actress’ perspective, K-Stew told Metro New York newspaper that she was rooting for the two of them to win! “I would’ve been really proud if me and Dakota had won,” she said. She even had the acceptance speech planned if Dakota had been there: “I would’ve done the whole build-up that me and Rob did last year, and then just stopped and said, “‘This just doesn’t feel right. Dakota, where are you? That would have been so funny.”

Dakota Fanning on Jimmy Kimmel

Cute Dakota Fanning and Kstew interview

Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning THE RUNAWAYS

* Before the interview started we had some drama….
* I mention I’m going to ask Twitter supplied questions
* We discuss how they’ve been asked a lot of the same questions
* Were there any Runaways songs they wanted to record but didn’t
* Favorite Runaways song
* How has it been growing up on screen. Can they watch older movies
* Favorite costumes and did they get to keep anything
* 2:50 the wall makes a sound like it’s going to come down…watch for it
* Kristen then continues talking about the way Joan dressed
* Did they debate taking this part due to how much they’d have to do - singing and performing

Dakota Fanning being adorable on Fallon, with a cameo by KStew

"The Runaways" Press Conference

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Kristen and Dakota in Access Hollywood

Dakota Fanning on The Tonight Show

Dakota talks about being driving dependent, papa-paparazzi, mic tricks, getting wood, & receiving a prehistoric artifact for her birthday.

Interview with Kristen and Dakota

Kristen Stewart Talks Dakota Fanning

Her new film “The Runaways” is due to hit theaters next Friday (March 19), and Kristen Stewart says she had a blast working with costar Dakota Fanning.

In the movie, Kristen and Dakota play 70s rockers Joan Jett and Cherie Currie as they rise to fame as the all-girl band The Runaways. Along the way, they even share a kiss.

Miss Stewart told press, “Working this closely with someone, you can’t help but really become bonded with them and it really helps when you actually like them and can become really good friends.”

“I haven’t really done a lot of movies with people close to my own age to have a good friend like that. So I was excited, and I couldn’t have asked for a better person to do it with.”

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Kristen Stewart & Dakota Fanning at "The Runaways" LA Premiere

Dakota Fanning Attends Audio Nerd Awards

LOS ANGELES, CA - FEBRUARY 27: Acclaimed sound mixer Dakota Fanning at the 46th Annual Cinema Audio Society Awards at Millennium Biltmore Hotel on February 27, 2010 in Los Angeles, California. The night's winners were The Hurt Locker, Grey Gardens, and Mad Men.









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The Runaways Soundtrack revealed

The Runaways biopic, starring Twilight’s Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning, melted the snow at its Sundance premiere and hits theaters across the U.S. on March 19th. While fans have gotten a few sneak peeks at the film via its teaser trailers, Rolling Stone now has your exclusive on what songs will feature on the film’s punk rock soundtrack. Since this is a film about the Runaways, the group’s catalog features heavily on the disc, and its track list is split between the original recordings and new versions by Fanning, who plays Cherie Currie, and Stewart, who portrays Joan Jett. Rounding out the album are 1975-era punk anthems by MC5, Nick Gilder, Sex Pistols, David Bowie and more.
That’s the soundtrack artwork up top and it’s pretty sweet, with a literal “cherry bomb” against the backdrop of a well-worn vinyl sleeve. The Runaways soundtrack will be available digitally on March 16th, with a physical release planned for March 23rd. You can pre-order both formats over on the soundtrack’s official Website. Until then, check out the entire Runaways track list below, and be sure to peruse our exclusive photos from the film set:



1. Nick Gilder – “Roxy Roller”
2. Suzi Quatro – “The Wild One”
3. MC5 – “It’s A Man’s Man’s Man’s World”
4. David Bowie – “Rebel Rebel”
5. Dakota Fanning – “Cherry Bomb”
6. The Runaway – “Hollywood”
7. Dakota Fanning – “California Paradise”
8. The Runaways – “You Drive Me Wild”
9. Dakota Fanning & Kristen Stewart – “Queens Of Noise”
10. Kristen Stewart & Dakota Fanning – “Dead End Justice”
11. The Stooges – “I Wanna Be Your Dog”
12. The Runaways – “I Wanna Be Where The Boys Are (Live)”
13. Sex Pistols – “Pretty Vacant”
14. Joan Jett – “Don’t Abuse Me”


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Dakota Fanning Celebrates Sweet 16 with Family and Friends

How does a super successful movie star slash average high school cheerleader kickoff her birthday? If you're Dakota Fanning, you keep it lowkey.

Fanning celebrated her sweet 16 Saturday night at Beverly Hills hotspot Villa Blanca, an eyewitness tells E! News exclusively. The New Moon star, whose actual birthday is Tuesday, was spotted enjoying dinner with 40 guests at the fancy eatery.

Fanning's party arrived around 7 p.m., which included her parents, family, and several friends, and continued celebrating until almost 11 p.m. "She looked like she was having fun and was really cool," the source says of the dateless star. "She was talking to her friends and laughing all night."

E! News caught up with Fanning after enjoying her three-layer birthday cake with chocolate mouse, and when asked if she'd be sporting a driver's license in the near future, she replied: "I don't even have permit."

So we won't be seeing her on the road anytime soon, but Dakota can be seen later this year in The Runaways, and the third Twilight flick, Eclipse.

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TWILIGHT TIDBIT with KRISTEN STEWART and DAKOTA FANNING

Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning get wild with 'The Runaways'

The 'Twilight' cast mates raise the heat in the punk-infused story of Joan Jett and her all-female '70s band. Good thing they're friends.

Dakota Fanning's porcelain-doll features were swathed in exotic makeup and her blond hair coiffed into a feathery shag; she raised her umpteenth shot of sake and cast a knowing glance at Kristen Stewart. The "Twilight" star held Fanning's gaze briefly and toasted back, looking every inch the tough rocker chick, with her matching black shag hairdo, spiked bracelet and razor-blade charm necklace.

The actresses clinked glasses and giggled.

With downtown Los Angeles' Kyoto Grand Hotel standing in for a bustling Tokyo sushi joint last summer, the teen stars were on the set of the coming-of-age drama "The Runaways" -- in character, with Fanning as Cherie Currie, the wild-child lead singer of the titular all-girl rock group, and Stewart portraying Joan Jett, its electric-guitar-wielding, 'tude-copping founder. Between the years 1975 and '79, the Runaways packed shows from coast to coast, toured the world and racked up hits before self-immolating in a blaze of drugs, jealousies and in-fighting.

"The Runaways" will premiere next Sunday at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, arriving as one of the fest's most outrightly commercial offerings, thanks largely to Stewart's demonstrated "opening" power as a marquee draw. (Put out by independent distributor Apparition, the movie reaches theaters in March.) But "The Runaways" is also one of the most piquantly feminist films to touch down this year at America's preeminent independent film forum -- albeit a punk- infused genre pic with a pronounced generational viewpoint and no shortage of blood, drug abuse and bodily effluvia.

Written and directed by Floria Sigismondi, the acclaimed photographer and video director behind such foreboding, atmospheric clips as Marilyn Manson's "The Beautiful People" and Christina Aguilera's "Fighter," the movie was less intended as a by-the-book musical biopic à la "The Doors" or "La Bamba" than an impressionistic character study illuminating a unique female predicament: What happens when teenage girls get handed too much, too soon via worldwide rock stardom?

Kid rock

No stranger to the rock 'n' roll life in her own right, the Italian-born first-time feature director -- a striking woman with a mane of raven-black hair who was clad in a vampire-chic, all-black ensemble on set last summer -- said she drew on personal experience to connect with the characters. "It's young girls getting swept up into a world they couldn't handle," Sigismondi said. "Feeding on those confusing feelings that develop from moving from girl to woman, I could reach deep into myself to find those things."

Sigismondi, who is married to Lillian Berlin, lead singer of the hard-rocking alt-quartet Living Things, continued: "I wanted to focus on Joan and Cherie. How different they are, how they were drawn together for this crazy experience. Joan is so focused, she really wanted to have this band. And Cherie wanted the rage of rock 'n' roll, the rebellion."

The film follows Currie at age 15 as she chafes against the San Fernando Valley's suburban torpor and her family's psychological abandonment en route to becoming the most forward female face in rock. On a parallel track, Jett is shown raging against the proverbial machine, defying all cultural expectation to stake out her place as a young woman in the boys' club of hard rock while still in her midteens.

One night in Hollywood, Jett approaches record impresario Kim Fowley (a scene-chewing Michael Shannon in campy glam drag) who introduces her to drummer Sandy West (Stella Maeve) and becomes the band's Svengali. Fowley "discovers" Currie at a nightclub, installs her as frontwoman and even concocts the lyrics to one of the group's biggest hits, "Cherry Bomb," on the spot during Currie's audition. Scant character development is devoted to West and bandmate-guitarist Lita Ford (Scout Taylor-Compton).

"Runaways" producer John Linson pointed out that even though the film is partially based on Currie's 1989 memoir "Neon Angel: The Cherie Currie Story," "The Runaways" is not a "band film" per se, because the filmmakers did not secure life story rights for Ford and bassist Jackie Fox (drummer Sandy West died from a brain tumor in 2006; original bassist Micki Steele was fictionalized by Alia Shawkat's character "Robin").

Instead, the grander ambition was to faithfully capture "the youth ethic in film."

"It's about 15-year-old rock stars, the rise and fall of kids," Linson said. "We're trying hard not to let that get taken away."

Profligate prop sake consumption aside, Fanning, who turns 16 next month, and Stewart, 19, appear side by side in an overwhelming majority of the movie's scenes. The two are shown snorting cocaine in an airplane bathroom as well as getting very up close and personal in what is sure to become one of "The Runaways' " primary talking points: a make-out scene in a roller rink that takes place about two-thirds of the way through the movie.

The scene was inspired by a remark Currie made in the rockumentary "Edgeplay: A Film About the Runaways," made by former band member Victory Tischler-Blue.

"In 'Edgeplay,' Cherie mentions that Joan is really good in bed," Sigismondi said. "I thought, 'I have to pry into this a bit. It will cause an explosion in the film. Why not go there?' "

Stewart and Fanning first shared screen time in "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" and became fast friends. "You can probably tell we get along really well," Fanning said in between takes. "For the characters, it's really important that bond is portrayed. And we have that in real life."

Rather than talk up the more sensational aspects of filming -- like, say, the scenes in which Fanning writhes and vamps onstage dressed in fishnet stockings and a revealing bodice -- the actress chose to explain how she and Stewart (with castmates Taylor-Compton, Maeve and Shawkat) rehearsed the Runaways' music together for a month before filming began. Stewart and Fanning then re-recorded the vocals for several of the songs heard in the film.

"When you're up there and you hear yourself singing the songs and feel yourself performing the dance moves that are so iconic -- when you're up there having the time of your life -- you feel like you are those girls for a few minutes," Fanning said. "It's really fun!"

Asked if the role was an attempt to shatter the conception of her as the child star of such kid flicks as "The Cat in the Hat" and "Charlotte's Web," the actress demurred, explaining it was simply part of her natural career evolution.

"I'm just portraying what was going on with [Cherie] when she was my age," Fanning said. "I want to continue to act for my whole life. Eventually, everyone will have to let me grow up, somehow, some way. I'm just trying to let that happen as naturally as I can."

Look-alike

During production, the real Joan Jett was a semi-constant presence on-set. At the Kyoto Grand location, the rock icon huddled with Stewart conspiratorially in between takes, their closeness highlighting a remarkable physical similarity. In the film, Stewart convincingly channels something of Jett's androgynous, take-no-guff demeanor and rock star swagger. (Stewart declined comment for this story.)

"She has completely embodied the character of Joan," Sigismondi said. "Her body language, her face, her walk. It's amazing how she has just become her."

Production designer Eugenio Caballero was even more blunt. "Kristen is Joan," he said in between scenes. "You talk with her and you think it's Joan Jett."

The notoriously private rocker, whose post-Runaways project Joan Jett and the Blackhearts' "I Love Rock 'N Roll" famously hit No. 1 and has sold more than 10 million copies, did not want to be interviewed. But she admitted feeling a strange satisfaction while watching the actresses perform the Runaways' music.

"It's surreal, that's all I can say," Jett said. "But I have a smile on my face."

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Kristen and Dakota in EW

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Many Interviews with Kristen and Dakota at Sundance

The Runaways premiere @ Sundance.

Hitting the arrivals carpet, Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning attended “The Runaways” premiere during the 2010 Sundance Film Festival on in Park City, Utah on Sunday evening (January 24).

Held at Eccles Center Theatre, the “New Moon” co-star cuties hammed it up for photogs alongside Joan Jett and Cherie Currie before heading inside and grabbing their seats to see the first screening of their new flick.

As for the theme of Kristen and Dakota’s theatrical offering, the film is a coming of age biopic telling the story of Joan and her former bandmates, The Runaways.

Having arrived in Park City on Friday, both Miss Stewart and Miss Fanning were spotted making their way to Harry O’s the previous night to see a performance by Joan - with insiders telling that Kristen and her “The Runaways” co-star Dakota Fanning were brought up on stage by Miss Jett during the gig.















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Sundance Runaways Kristen Stewart & Dakota Fanning Share the Screen—And a Kiss!

I loved The Runaways. It really does rock. The movie is the true-life story of the short-lived but legendary all-girl rock band, with Kristen Stewart starring as Joan Jett and Dakota Fanning as Cherie Currie.

Stewart does what she does best: play the anguished outsider. But Fanning really nails it as the 15-year drug-abusing sex kitten Cherie. This is a Dakota you have never seen, getting so lost in the role that there are times she is almost unrecognizable. Full of sex (including Fanning and Stewart locking lips), drugs and rock n' roll, The Runaways is not for the prudish....

Or for Stewart and Fanning's younger Twilight fans.

Revolutionary Road's Michael Shannon plays the band's eccentric svengali producer, Kim Fowley. He's got some laugh-out-loud lines, most of which are D-I-R-T-Y—dirty!

And, as an added bonus, entering that fun crossroads where art intersects life, Joan Jett herself hit Sundance last night when she performed at Harry O's—with Stewart and Fanning making a quickie appearance before the show. Let The Runaways resurgence begin!

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Sundance 2010 Portraits

Actress Dakota Fanning, director Floria Sigismondi and actress Kristen Stewart