![]() If you’ve got Billie Joe Armstrong in your movie, you can’t have him pretending. All the music in the movie was shot live, so I wanted to be sure to have guys really playing the songs up there with him. Kirk: The most important thing to me was that I needed actors who played instruments. How did you decide to cast Fred Armisen and Kevin Corrigan for the fictional band? When she’s singing it, she doesn’t really know - she’s singing it about her father, but not from herself. Especially people my age or older, they’re gonna see this kid and start thinking about maybe where they were the first time they heard that song. I think when people see the film, they’re gonna see that. The way it comes full circle with this little girl singing it is sort of a cathartic moment. It’s the first image I had when I started writing the movie: a father listening to that song and realizing that he was satisfied.īJA: Being a Replacements fan, that song is such an anthem, especially for younger people and disenfranchised people. Somehow, it just hit me and I related to the lyrics. Kirk: I remember that song when I was a teenager, I’d just lay there and listen to it. ” What’s the significance of that song to both of you? There’s an emotional moment for Perry at the end that involves his daughter playing the Replacements’ “ Unsatisfied. In the party scene.īJA: They think everything about it is fantastic except for me. Can we use that?” And Joey’s in there, too, with his band SWMR. Then he was playing it, and I think we were doing ADR or something, and I was like “Play that again. Kirk: He played me “King of the World” and I’d been telling him that I’d been trying to find a song for this one part in the movie. How did you get them involved?īJA: I think I happened to be playing stuff for Lee that had nothing to do with being in the film and he really liked Jakob’s stuff a lot. Both your sons contributed songs to the film. Music plays a major role not just in Perry’s own life, but also in his relationship with his daughter. It wasn’t me that threw it though, my wife threw me a surprise party. It turned out a bit different from Perry’s, but it was pretty nuts. With age, it really becomes thinking about how time has passed - that’s sort of the root of age.īJA: I threw a big-ass party. In the past, you could afford to be a little more selfish when you’re younger. Perry’s in this era of being a parent, he can’t be selfish. Where you can look at your life in these eras. Was turning 40 as much of a midlife crisis for you as it is for Perry? It throws his whole world off its axis.īJA: It’s not necessarily getting older or the change that comes with it, I think it’s more about the memories that you have. And even with the dialogue, every line we would ask him, “What’s the rock-and-roll vernacular for this? How do you want to say it? ” It was cool. Kirk: So we wrote the script with that in mind. Kirk: No, you said, “She should be an old flame. He had one great suggestion which was that, the Judy Greer character was just this sort of prostitute that the guys had hired for Perry. Lee Kirk: We sat together for a while after he came onboard and went over the script. For me, it was fun to kind of imagine whether or not this could’ve been the path I went on, or not. I identified with the exhaustion and klutziness that comes with being a parent, and how he’s just a rock-and-roller at heart. Was it surreal to reimagine your life?īillie Joe Armstrong: I definitely related a lot to Perry. ![]() Armstrong and director Lee Kirk recently stopped by the New York offices to talk aging, Billie Joe’s acting future, and that American Idiot movie.īillie, the film parallels your life until it veers off into the path not taken - to borrow a line from Judy Greer’s character. The film, out now in theaters and VOD, spans the day of Perry’s 40th birthday, an occasion which ignites a midlife crisis that hits all the bases: Perry abandons all family responsibilities, blows thousands on a presidential suite for a rager, smashes a guitar, and reconnects with an ex played by Judy Greer. That’s Ordinary World, which stars Billie Joe Armstrong as Perry, a washed-up punk rocker with a wife (Selma Blair), two kids, and a head stuck in the past. ![]() Imagine an alternate reality where Green Day fizzled out before Dookie, never made it out of those Berkeley basements, and are now resigned to life on a suburban boulevard of broken dreams. ![]()
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