SPIN have posted their The Runaways set report online!

“Kristen, you are so hot!”

In the appropriately rank alley behind a small Los Angeles club called the Smell, Cherie Currie, former lead singer of the ’70s all-girl band the Runaways, yells out to ingénue-of-the-moment Kristen Stewart, standing a few feet away.

Currie could easily be referring to the actress’ body temperature: The midday July weather is sweltering, and Stewart, dressed head-to-toe in black leather for the role of Currie’s onetime bandmate Joan Jett in The Runaways, is wiping sweat from her forehead. Stewart is on a smoke break; beside her, Dakota Fanning, who plays Currie in the movie, munches on a veggie doodle. While two Twilight fans linger near a Dumpster down the block, hoping to glimpse the franchise’s stars, the paparazzi — who have hounded the production all month, much to writer-director Floria Sigismondi’s frustration — are absent on this, the second-to-last day of the shoot.

Currie is actually talking about how good Stewart looks as Jett, and indeed she does. Minutes before, Jett, also an executive producer, chatted privately with Stewart, their heads bowed, each with a raised hand grasping a chainlink fence, looking almost identical in all but age. (Also, the 51-year-old Jett’s ‘do is shorter than her 19-year-old doppelgänger’s era-accurate shag.) As Stewart gets ready to go back inside, she smiles awkwardly and says simply, “So was Joan.”

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