The gallery has been updated with four new gorgeous stills of Dakota in The Runaways. Also added is a picture of Dakota posing behind the scenes with Cherie Currie. Enjoy!

Miami Herald has also posted the interview they did with Dakota.

At 16, she’s poised, collected and headed for a grown-up career as we see in her new movie, The Runaways. The Georgia native plays Cherie Currie, the lead singer of the 1970s band that launched Joan Jett’s Blackhearts career.

Though she’s gone head to head with screen legends like Robert De Niro (Hide and Seek), Denzel Washington (Man on Fire) and Tom Cruise (War of the Worlds), playing the rocker was her most challenging role.

“It was different, because you are living someone else’s life,” Fanning says by phone from L.A. “I definitely did more preparation than usual. The person you are playing is right there. I had to sing like her too . . . a great responsibility.”

Fanning started out in showbiz earlier than Currie — at the age of 7 in I Am Sam, playing Sean Penn’s daughter.

Can she relate?

“I can relate to having a job when you’re younger, but not being on my own or the drug use,” she says. “Cherie was just a 15-year-old girl from the Valley thrown into this crazy world of rock ‘n’ roll away from her family and very vulnerable, having to figure everything out for herself.”

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