In his second life, Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong is an actor. Here he digs into his role in the upcoming Ordinary World.
Ordinary World isn’t your first acting role. Did occasionally being in the American Idiot musical give you a taste for it?
“Yeah, it gave me the bug, and I had a lot of off-time with Green Day, so I figured why not? Then Ordinary World came along and [lead character Perry] seemed like the perfect role to sink my teeth into.”
You’re in almost every scene and the film stands or falls on your performance. Nerve-wracking?
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