The fact that I was taking naps in churches, in between takes, and there was that guerilla style of filmmaking, I felt more at home with that. I loved the independent spirit of the whole experience, instead of doing a big Hollywood picture, or something like that where I would have felt more out of place. Did the fact that this was such a quick 21-day shoot really help with that?ĪRMSTRONG: I don’t know. It seems like one of the biggest challenges of acting would be getting out of your own head, so that you can just live in the character you’re playing. We really were in sync with each other, a lot. It was fun, in between scenes, I’d pull out my iPod and show her different old rock ‘n’ roll and punk stuff, and she was really into it. We were able to put it in my language, which was really important.ĪRMSTRONG: Madisyn was great. We’d go through the script together, rehearsing it before every shot with the other actors. We stayed very close to each other, and Lee was amazing. How closely did you collaborate with writer/director Leek Kirk on this? Did you have a hand in the dialogue and making sure that this feels authentic?ĪRMSTRONG: Yeah. Not everybody can talk about being an accountant.
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It’s a music language that’s unique, compared to what other parents do, especially in their professional lives. What’s it like to get to watch your own kids fall in love with the thing that you love and have a passion for?ĪRMSTRONG: It’s not only exciting to watch, but you can also speak a different language with each other. You’ve just gotta bring it all back home.
In one of the scenes, you can see a little cameo of my son, who’s in the party. With my family, my sons both love music and play music, and they’re really good at it.
It’s about how you balance between being a musician and being a parent, and making it intertwined. I know I’m always going to be a musician, for the rest of my life. I definitely can relate to that.ĭid having your own kids make you approach music from a new perspective?ĪRMSTRONG: Yeah. I think he’s a really great guy, that he’s made those sacrifices. No matter what, if you’re a parent, you have to make sacrifices. Does he want to work in a hardware store where he has no idea what he’s doing, or does he want to try to maintain being some kind of an artist? And he ends up teaching guitar lessons at the music store. It’s more about what his lifestyle is leading to. There’s no doubt that he wants to be a father, and he absolutely loves his family, he loves his wife, he loves his brother, and he even loves his in-laws. He also seems a little bit afraid to say that he’s okay with his life being different than maybe what he expected it would be.ĪRMSTRONG: Yeah. He’s just trying to have it make a little bit more sense while he figures out what he actually wants to do with it. I think that the character actually really loves where he’s at, in his life. He’s having a mid-life moment, and it’s a small moment, really. The main thing about the character is that he loves music, and he shares it with his daughter. I just make the best music that I possibly can. I’m the fun guy, just trying to make it up as I go along, and that’s what the character is, too.ĪRMSTRONG: That’s the gamble that you make when you decide to become a rock musician. I also really related to the character, especially when it came to the parenting part. They’re playing to tape, but Fred Armisen and I were actually in a rock ‘n’ roll bad together. I was like, “Let’s just go in there and do it live.” I think that’s the big difference between this one and a lot of the other rock ‘n’ roll movies. What I see in a lot of music movies, or rock ‘n’ roll movies, that feature a band is that they’re lip-synching. Did you have any hesitation about doing a role like this and blurring those lines, or was that part of the appeal?ĪRMSTRONG: That was part of the appeal because I was pretty adamant about wanting to play live.
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When they cross over into acting, a lot of musicians or singers don’t want to take a movie where they have to sing in it, and it’s the same for a lot of dancers. But then, Lee Kirk reached out and asked if I was interested, and I read the script and said, “Absolutely!” As agent asked if I wanted to be represented, and I said, “Yeah, sure, I’ll give it a shot!” It was never something I had really put that much thought into. I loved acting, and so I just kept my options open. BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG: It came up after doing St.
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