Joan Jett wanted to play dirty, sweaty, sexy rock’n’roll – and she sure as hell did, first with her riot grrl band The Runaways, and then with the Blackhearts. She tells SINÉAD GLEESON about getting covered with spit, looking up to Suzi Quatro and being played by Kristen Stewart.
So much happened. It’s hard to fit it all in, but the film definitely gives you a sense of what it was like to be in that band. The actors were incredible. Kristen Stewart [who plays Joan] was great. She’s a real person, down-to-earth, authentic. She put real pressure on herself to do the work. We spent a lot of time together over the two weeks before we started shooting. We were in the studio rehearshing, getting them to play instruments to the music. It was a lot for these girls to become a band in a short time, but by the time we started shooting they had a definite sense of ‘hey, we’re in a band’. It’s important that they were able to get that sense of camaraderie across.”
If The Runaways were Joan Jett’s musical baptism, it was her solo career that really made her a star. While trying to set up the band that would become The Blackhearts, she posted a classified ad “looking for three good men”, and it’s easy to assume that The Runaways experience had put her off being in an all-female band.
“It wasn’t that all, because The Runaways were so special. To me they were the be-all and end-all – it was the best. To start another girl band would almost have been sacrilegious. Plus I knew the press would have just made comparisons – that I wouldn’t have even gotten out of the starting blocks.”
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