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.
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.