Jun 16 2009 Will Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning Girl-Go-Wild for 'Runaways'?

Girl-on-girl kissing. Aside from drinking, it's the most heavily encouraged activity in your dorm. Everyone wants to see it, but what if you can't find two drunk, attention-starved coeds to deliver it? Where do you go then?

Answer: to The Runaways, the upcoming biopic on Joan Jett and her early days with the all-girl band, which apparently involves girl-on-girl kissin'. Oh, but did I mention the kiss would involve 15-year-old Dakota Fanning? Yikes. Your woooooo!-or-not-to-woooooo! judgment call:

Life & Style reports that there's a makeout scene between Kristen's Joan and Dakota's Cherie Currie in the film, which is currently in rehearsals in Hollywood.

(Thanks for the link, Alena.)

Well, now we know what scene will get so blown out of proportion that it will incite controversy that completely overshadows every other aspect of the film.

Not here, though. At I Watch Stuff, I say we are done discussing a filmed kiss between consenting teenagers. Let's be mature. In Europe, it wouldn't even be a big deal. No one would be spit-taking the wine they're allowed to drink at an early age. Grow up, girl-on-girl kiss controversy-makers. End of discussion. Instead, let's blow out of proportion the even-less-actually-controversial subject of how Fanning's character, Cherie Currie, apparently went from being a Runaway to being a master chainsaw artist on the local news:

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Jun 11 2009 Twilight's Haircut Indicates Fondness for Rock & Roll

Sorry to remind you, hardcore Joan Jett fans, but Kristen Stewart is playing Joan Jett in an upcoming biopic called The Runaways, and now, as you can see above, she's got the haircut to prove it.

I'm still not completely sold on the idea of the Twilight star playing Jett, but now that I'm seeing her with the hair and everything, I'm thinking she might do a pretty decent job as Keith from Voltron:

The Runaway [Jezebel]

Dec 3 2008 'Twilight' Girl to Play Joan Jett

Kirsten Stewart, also known as girl from Twilight, has been cast in the role of Joan Jett in Floria Sigismondi's The Runaways. From THR:

Fresh from the success of "Twilight," Kristen Stewart is set to portray Joan Jett in "The Runaways," the rock 'n' roll biopic of the 1970s all-girl band.

The Runaways were hugely influential as the first successful all-girl hard rock band; its members included guitarists Jett and Lita Ford, drummer Sandy West, singer-keyboardist Cherie Currie and bassist Jackie Fox. The band was brought together in late 1975 by impresario Kim Fowley, who thought a novelty act of teenaged girls performing in leather and lace would be an easy sell, but the girls ended up proving to be serious and influential musicians with songs like "Cherry Bomb." The band lasted about four years together, falling apart over management and money issues.

The film will revolve around Jett and Currie and follow them from the band's meteoric rise as teenagers to their dissolution and disillusionment.

While Stewart will take on the role of Jett, Cherie Currie will reportedly be played as a thin, pale, poofy-haired guy who is deeply in love with her despite differences in their lifestyle.