Kristen Stewart hadn’t become Bella in the “Twilight” series when she signed on to star in “The Runaways.” But between the time she agreed to play rocker Joan Jett in the bio-pic about the ’70s all-girl band and its box office debut, Stewart had become a movie star.

The film, released last spring, is available Tuesday on DVD.

Stewart’s sudden rise to fame had her thinking about the difference between what Jett, singer Cherie Currie and the other Runaways experienced in the ’70s and what she’s gone through in the past few years.

“I think they sought out their fame so aggressively that it was completely different thing,” she said in an interview when the film was released. “It’s not like it was thrust upon them at all. … Musicians really are themselves all the time, in a public way. We’re not. We’re actors. We choose movies for a million different reasons; some of them are because they ‘say’ things. But not the way music does, not so directly. I can say, ‘This is really cool, I’m really lucky.’ They’re like, ‘We own this.’”

Dakota Fanning, who has been famous since she broke into movies at age 7, said fame in the ’70s was far different from what she and Stewart experience today.

“Back then you had to do something really important to become famous. That’s what you really wanted,” Fanning said. “Now I feel like you can do anything and become famous.”

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IN HER new film The Runaways, where she stars as Cherie Currie, singer of the 1970s all-girl teenage rock band who rises to fame quickly, before crashing just as rapidly, Dakota Fanning snorts cocaine, has sex with Kristen Stewart (who plays rocker Joan Jett), deals with an alcoholic father and an MIA mother, and suffers at the hands of an emotionally abusive manager.

Let’s just say it’s a long way from Charlottes Web.

“I really wanted to do it and I was pretty comfortable with it,” Fanning says of the film’s more adult content.

“I don’t think it’s so crazy, it’s someone’s life.”

As Currie, Fanning walks a tightrope between being completely luminous and utterly vulnerable. She manages to convey the drug addicted singer’s wounded soul with such an emotional depth, you forget that Fanning herself is only 16 years old.

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On her down-to-earth daily life: “I have such a normal life when I’m not working . . . It’s just nice to be around people you care about and who know you best.”
On acting alongside Kristen in Eclipse: “Kristen is one of my best friends, so it was really funny playing her enemy in Eclipse . . . But that’s what acting is and when they yell ‘cut,’ you can go back to your normal self.”
On her favorite wardrobe staple: “In Push, I wear these Doc Martens. They’re worn-in and they’re so soft, and they’re one of the only ones that were made with a zipper. That has affected my style in a completely new way. Now I wear them every day.”
On the career legacy she hopes she’ll leave: “I hope people will have been moved by something that I’ve done or [that I've] helped somebody through a hard time . . . and that I’ve stayed true to who I am and have been a nice person.”
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Dakota Fanning has told press that her parents used to harbour hopes of her being a great tennis player, until she shot down their dream.

The actress said, “When I was younger the plan for me was to be a tennis player, and my mom had me working with her coach from, like, three-years-old.”

But it wasn’t meant to be – Dakota said that she hated tennis because she got too hot playing it!

She said, “I told her one day that I just get too hot playing tennis. I just don’t want to do that. She was like, ‘What do you mean you get too hot? That’s what you do when you play sports.’ So they quickly realized that maybe that wasn’t going to be my thing.”

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