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Will The Real Fake Lita Ford Please Stand Up?

Posted: June 24th, 2009 at 8:52 pm

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I don’t like my casting news contradicted. Hollywood, if you’re going to re-cast a role, I want a huge, messy blow-up transparently covered-up with the time-honored excuse of “creative differences”. So when we reported on Rolling Stone’s reporting that “Caprica” actress Alessandra Torresani in the upcoming biopic about the all-girl rock band The Runaways (co-starring Kristen Stewart as Joan Jett and Dakota Fanning as Cherie Currie), we thought that was the end of the story. But today, Variety is reporting that the film has found its Lita Ford in “Halloween” actress Scout Taylor-Compton. While I’m happy to pass the buck to Rolling Stone and take no blame for a previously false casting report, nothing can cover up my indifference towards who plays Ford in this biopic. But I would like to know what happened with Torresani.

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CAPRICA Actress Alessandra Torresani Fills Out THE RUNAWAYS Cast as Lita Ford

Posted: June 9th, 2009 at 11:09 pm

For the entire four years that the all-girl rock group “The Runaways” existed they had only one star - their kittenish singer Cherie Currie. Anyone who knows their rock history, however, will tell you that in the years after “The Runaways” imploded the group spawned two huge guitar stars - Joan Jett and Lita Ford. With Kristin Stewart already signed to play Jett (opposite Dakota Fannning as Currie) the question of who would play Ford remained - though I doubt anyone was losing much sleep over it.

Well now we can all get even more sleep - producers of “The Runaways” biopic have found their second guitar goddess. According to Rollingstone.com her name is Alessandra Torresani. Her name may be familiar if you’ve been following “Caprica” news. Other than that the 22 year-old actress is pretty much unknown. She is SUPER excited to meet Lita Ford, though - calling her “the most incredible woman.” Wow, high praise indeed for the woman who once humped a guitar in her “Kiss me Deadly” video! “The Runaways” begins shooting next week.