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Rock ’n’ roll? Right now I’d rather be a cheerleader

When Dakota Fanning was approached to play a sexed-up singer from the seventies, she knew exactly what to do.

She hit YouTube. “I didn’t know a lot about The Runaways or Cherie Currie when I got the script. I looked online to see the videos of the Live in Japan tour and her performing Cherry Bomb, and I realized that I wanted to play her,” says Fanning.