I find a lot of people blame Kim, because he’s dead. She did it and she could’ve easily said, “Hey, girls, Kim set up this photo shoot for me. And then with Cherie trying to blame that on Kim… well, we were all there. The thing is, these girls could’ve walked away any time if they were uncomfortable. Well, there’s the whole sequence where he got your singer, Cherie Currie, to pose in lingerie. Maybe that’s another thing that wasn’t clear enough in the film. I happened to get along with Kim very well. Well, I don’t really see things the way the other girls see things. How did you come to terms with that as you got older? The Runaways’ manager, Kim Fowley, exploited the group commercially, sexually and otherwise. ![]() I’m sure the people who control those mechanisms on when things drop are controlling it. I just don’t know when the shoe is gonna drop. And Hollywood’s done it a little because they had to. We just saw something on the news about a Catholic priest in Pennsylvania where they just printed a bunch of names, but I think the church has done it because they had to. Why has it been slow to hit all the other industries except for Hollywood? As far as I can tell, bad behavior is everywhere you look. Here are the key passages from the interview:Ĭonsidering what you’ve been through between that and the Runaways, why do you think the #MeToo movement has been slow in reaching the music industry? Jett says she thinks that #MeToo is slow in coming to any industry but Hollywood, that she views Kim as a good friend, and when the interviewer brings up the coercion of another of her bandmates, Cherie Currie, to pose in lingerie, claims “nobody was forced to do anything.” When reached for comment about the alleged rape, which multiple witnesses confirmed, Jett denied seeing the event take place, and her representative went as far to refer any further questions to the rape victim, saying: “It’s a matter involving her and she can speak for herself.” ![]() Jett’s answers are in line with her previously expressed stance on the subject, which is very pro-Kim Fowley (the former manager of The Runaways who was accused of rape) and unsympathetic to situations like the public rape that one of her other bandmates, Jackie Fox, detailed to the Huffington Post’s Highline in 2015. Jett was a trailblazer for women in rock, and speaks to the resilience it took to be that, which she calls “innate.”ĭuring the interview, she was asked about the #MeToo movement and why it seems to be moving slowly when it comes to the music industry. The band hits the clubs, wins a recording contract and becomes a media curiosity, eventually finding real success in Japan before drugs and infighting cause an inevitable "Behind the Music” implosion.Joan Jett - of Joan Jett & the Blackhearts and The Runaways fame - spoke with Rolling Stone in an extensive interview today, coinciding with the release of a documentary about her life, Bad Reputation. The band solidifies around Jett, Currie, Sandy West (Stella Maeve), Ford (Scout Taylor-Compton) and the composite bass player, Robin Robins (Alia Shawkat of "Arrested Development”), during abusive practice sessions in a beat-up trailer. Calling herself Joan Jett, she approaches music producer Kim Fowley (Michael Shannon of "Revolutionary Road”) outside Rodney Bingenheimer’s English Disco about her all-girl band idea.Ī self-declared sleaze, Fowley goes looking for teenage girls and hits pay dirt with Currie (Dakota Fanning), a David Bowie fanatic from a broken home in the San Fernando Valley. She’s tough, wants to be Suzi Quatro and likes girls - in fact, she doesn’t want any boys in her band. The setup could not be more perfect, with 15-year-old Joan Larkin (Kristen Stewart) buying a men’s leather jacket and blowing up at a music instructor who refuses to let her plug in her guitar.
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