We worked so hard as kids and we just seemed to have been mowed over and forgotten. How does it feel after all this time to have your incredible story told?Ĭurrie: Well, it feels great and there are so many emotions. After she quit, she began an acting career and starred in numerous films including Foxes (1980) with Jodie Foster, Parasite (1982) with Demi Moore and Wavelength (1983) with Robert Carradine.Ĭherie Currie spoke with Tribute‘s Toni-Marie Ippolito about her life being portrayed on screen by Dakota Fanning, her newfound friendship with rock legend Joan Jett and re-writing her book to include more intense details (the ones you don’t see in The Runaways movie), including why she really cut her hair like David Bowie, the spoon-fed drug abuse, the arrests, having knives thrown at them and how they bonded to fight for their right to rock. The feature film, The Runaways, partly based on Currie’s biography, “Neon Angel: Memoir of a Runaway” (HarperCollins Canada), has brought these talented women back into the spotlight, which, according to Currie, is well deserved considering the fact that the girls were taken advantage of by their aggressive manager Kim Fowley (portrayed by Michael Shannon) and a world of rock ruled by men.Ĭurrie, known as the “Blond Bombshell” of the group, went on to record three albums with The Runaways-that also included band mates Sandy West, Lita Ford and Jackie Fox-and two solo albums. Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning take a trip back to the ’70s to play real-life rockers Joan Jett and Cherie Currie who, while in their tender teens, started the first real all-girl rock band The Runaways. Rock singer Cherie Currie recounts her days as the “Blond Bombshell” and lead singer of the ’70s girl band The Runaways, and what she really thinks about the movie. Neon Angel – Interview with The Runaways’ Cherie Currie
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