Currie: 'Fanning is so good in Runaways'

Cherie Currie has hailed Dakota Fanning's portrayal of her in rock biopic The Runaways.

Speaking to The AV Club, Currie revealed that she got "engulfed" in the movie, which also stars Kristen Stewart as her former bandmate Joan Jett, and forgot that the film was about her.

"Dakota Fanning is so great. I actually forget it's my story, just because she's so good and so believable," Currie explained. "You get engulfed in the film. It's wild. At first, you're saying, 'Wait a minute,' because they took some poetic license and it kind of goes against your grain.

"It's just human nature to react when you see something you lived through and you think it didn't quite happen that way. But then you get through that and then you see the movie again and it's just like, 'Oh my God. This really is intriguing.' And the acting is so great. I get so engulfed in the film that I forget it's about The Runaways and me and Joan. It's so entertaining, really."

Currie stated earlier this month that seeing The Runaways has inspired her to make a music comeback.