Were you always going to include the title track, “Ordinary World,” on the new Green Day album, Revolution Radio, or did you decide that, later on?ĪRMSTRONG: I didn’t really know. 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. 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.
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.
How did that happen? Were you looking to take on an acting role, and then they just came across this and thought it would be a good fit?īILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG: It came up after doing St. During this exclusive phone interview with Collider, Billie Joe Armstrong talked about how he came to be playing the lead role in this film, why he was adamant about playing live in it, finding his groove as an actor, knowing he’s always going to be a musician, for the rest of his life, having his own sons also fall in love with music, deciding to include the title track “Ordinary World” (which he wrote, along with three other original songs for the film) on the new Green Day album, Revolution Radio, and that putting out new music and taking it on tour never gets old.Ĭollider: This would have been a very difficult role to cast an actor in because they’d have to be able to sing, play guitar and just have the right vibe, but your agent recommended you to writer/director Lee Kirk.
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