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2fs - 2009-03-06 01:23:15
Eliza Dushku - although she's not quite skin-and-bones enough normally.
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grigorss - 2009-03-06 02:15:54
"Who would you cast as Joanie?"
This is tough because you need somebody really young (it's about the start of JJ's career, right?); on facebook, you suggested Ellen Page -- who can play somewhat more hard-edged than her character in Juno, as anyone who's seen Hard Candy can attest to; although sometimes in biopics I feel like it's a better idea to go with unknowns -- less conflicts with one's own preconceptions re: the historical figure being portrayed, that way.
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Donna Upton - 2009-03-06 03:23:21
Eliza Dushku is almost 30.
I haven't seen Twilight, but I liked Kristen Stewart in Panic Room. What don't you like about her?
I think Ellen Page would be good. What about Evan Rachel Wood?
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Paula - 2009-03-06 03:55:51
What don't you like about her?
I don't dislike anything about her, but it's bad casting. Joan Jett is an original, like Iggy Pop or Lou Reed. You need someone either brilliantly able to inhabit characters, or someone very close to her physical type, and none of the actresses mentioned seems up to it in either way. Like I said, Ellen Page comes closest to having the chutzpah and basic petite/boyish look, but even that might be a stretch.
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Baby Party - 2009-03-06 04:07:07
Oops, let me slip back into my nom de plume...
It's very hard to find a really young actor who has the kind of chops you're talking about, along with the physical requirements. I'd rather have someone really talented who can fake the look. But the ideal choice might simply have to be someone older.
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MacGregor - 2009-03-06 12:19:03
I loved The Libertines, and am also mostly oblivious to Pete-Antics so it's all good! I look forward to anything those guys do. They seem to "get it." I don't know enough actors to figure out a good Joan Jett. I can't think of anybody edgy enough to play any of them, and I'm frightened to think what Hollywood might do with this story.
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Amy - 2009-03-06 14:14:14
Thanks for the 50 Foot tip! You improved my workday by 300%.
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Paula - 2009-03-06 14:18:56
Right? I love that KH just quietly has this other GREAT band, along with solo stuff and whatever TMuses stuff she still does. Most people don't even get one good band.
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MacGregor - 2009-03-06 14:58:42
Maybe the best way to cast The Runaways would be to pull up a bunch of no-names--perhaps check out every teen girl band they can find coast to coast. Or let Kim Fowley do the casting the way he originally cast the band.
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Paula - 2009-03-06 15:59:23
Yes--surely someone from the Donnas is still young-looking enough to pull it off, and won't have to fake the guitar chords.
Fake guitar-playing is right up there with fake smoking and fake Southern accents in my movie pet peeves list.
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grigorss - 2009-03-06 16:08:42
"Fake guitar-playing is right up there... in my movie pet peeves list."
But one of the greatest movies of all time is wall-to-wall fake guitar playing. Stick that in your craw and smoke it!
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MacGregor - 2009-03-06 16:29:05
Fake accents of any kind!!! Southern is probably the worst, like Val Kilmer in Tombstone. Ugh! Fake English, Scottish or Irish accents are horrible too. People over there do better American accents of all sorts than we do theirs' too. Exception--Timothy Dalton as James Bond was a travesty. He made Bond sound like a Cardiff coal miner.
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MacGregor - 2009-03-06 16:29:55
I love the Donnas so much that it made me love the name Donna. Donna Upton I love you too!
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Paula - 2009-03-06 16:51:11
Re: fake British accents--Totally agreed. One exception is James Marsters. His fake British accent isn't perfect, but it's very good. I just watched an episode of Angel where, in one scene, he's angrily mimicking Angel, with a bad fake American accent! Well done, Spike!
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jonder - 2009-03-10 20:28:45
Here's a suggestion (not just to tie two threads together): Kristen Hersh could play Joan Jett in the movie. No fake guitar playing, and she's got the petite/boyish look that Paula mentions.
MacGregor says, "I'm frightened to think what Hollywood might do with (the Runaways') story" -- but it IS a Hollywood story, right down to the LA producer who (as you said yourself) "cast the band".
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jonder againder - 2009-03-10 20:34:37
And re. British actors doing American accents: I was so impressed with the flawless American accents of Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson in the movie "Dead Again". But later Branagh did a terrible Southern accent in a terrible movie called "Gingerbread Man". Last night I watched Russell Brand's special on Comedy Central; he does a good American accent too. And when he affects an upper-class British accent, he sounds just like Richard E. Grant.
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