♪ Motley Crue Kickstart My Heart ♪
♪ ♪
If we want to knock people on their asses, then we've gotta give them a show.
♪ ♪
I'm talking, like, a stadium show in the clubs.
The fans, they're dying for some anarchy.
♪ Vigorous instrumental music ♪ (Crowd cheering)
I work for Elektra Records.
Would you guys like a record deal?
♪ Oh, yeah! ♪
Okay, I gotta say, the first thing, it must be really tough to prepare for these characters.
You have to watch music videos by Motley Crew... - Yeah...
- That must've been a lot of hard work. - Yeah, dude, that sucks!
- Oh, I'm terrible, I can't imagine! - (Laughs)
- But I mean...
How did you guys get involved with this?
This is iconic! These guys are legends!
- Yeah...
- The script has been around for a while.
I remember when I first read the script,
is that Focus Features and it's a movie they've been trying to make with passion.
You know, Jeff Tremaine has been so passionate about trying to make this movie for so long, so..
Yeah, so when I got the call and they said I got the role, I was absolutely thrilled.
It's a fun one to do, and I've never been...
He's a real rock star, I'm not. So... - (Laughs)
- For me it was.. I got to have my moment, my little moment as a rock star, which is quite fun.
- That's cool! What about you?
- Uhm.. Yeah, I mean.. I met with Jeff in LA and then, sort of, read the script, and...
sent some little tape in, and..
luckily, they wanted me to play the part, so yeah, it was really exciting.
And it was great to get to play, you know, an incredible musician.
Who, you know, is so passionate, his passion is to play the guitar
and to be in a rock band, and..
you know, that really was a lot of fun to do.
But my neighbours hated me for it. - (Laughs) Sure!
What about you? I mean, you'd lived the real thing, you're the real deal
what was it, like, for what 'you live' compared to what 'they live'?
Well, I was a six-time auditioner for this movie, so...
- WHAT?! - (Laughing)
- Yeah, yeah!
- A lot of work!
- What can I say, when he walked into..
because I was cast as Nicky and he walked in, they were down to three Tommy Lees.
He walked in, and the moment he walked in, everyone in the room was like:
"This guy is Tommy Lee!", 'cause he had the physicality, those arms...
- I was the sixth one, the day I met him, I was the sixth one..
and he, luckily, was kind enough to be like, "That's the guy I want to play Tommy."
And he was already Nicky at that time, so... - Yeah...
- It was cool. - I think the casting really did a great job, like..
We all.. kind of found.
'Cause at first I was like "I want to play Tommy", and they just did everyone into the right places.
- I auditioned as Nicky. - Yeah.
- Wow!
- So they steered us all into the right places, and I think...
In the end of the day, I think it works perfectly. - Yeah.
- Well, how much has your.. I guess I'm gonna start with you on this.
How much has their music influenced you as an artist?
- I think.. I mean, number one..
I've always tried to, kind of, mix genres and blend genres in my live performance, and..
in certain records of mine.
But I think really they taught me after doing the movie,
even though I'd already been such a huge fan..
and even on their last tour I went to a couple shows on that, but...
They kinda showed me go for..
Build it and they will come. Right? - Uhum.
They made themselves a stadium act in the smallest venues.
Like the Troubadour, Whisky a Go Go, etc etc...
You know, 200 cap venues.
And they were putting on arena shows, and then they ended up going and playing arenas.
You know, within a course of five years. - Yeah.
So to me it was, kind of, like, one of those things were..
"Shit! Maybe in my career I need to..."
"you know, build it as if it's this, and let it become that."
- So.. - Makes sense!
What about you? Did they have an influence on either of you, your growing up?
- Uhm.. I mean, I was aware of the music, I've heard it, but it wasn't until I, you know..
I came, I've read the book, and the script, and met everyone involved.
And got to play these songs for real, and got to go to as four or five week..
rock camp, band camp, and we.. - (Laughs)
I mean, we called it band camp, but it sounds much cooler like..
- Rock camp is cool. - Yeah, rock camp is cool.
- Rock camp is cool.
(Laughing)
- And then, once you kind of, get there and you..
The first time I got one of Nicky's licks, so..
And we kind of played it, you know, as a group, and then we walk out on stage into an arena...
You can't help but be swept up by the whole performance and the whole show, that they put on.
You know, those massive fire cannons, and all of that stuff, it's...
It's pretty seductive.
- I can see.
What about you? What's the wildest world, this or Game of Thrones?
(Both laugh)
- That's an.. - Yeah, what was wilder?
- Ehhm.. I think this. (Laughs) - (Laughs)
- Yesss! - Yeah, I mean..
You know, this was so..
'cause it was such a..
it felt like such a.. sort of ensemble between us all
and how we're all just together so much of the time, and...
And, you know, how committed everyone was, and, you know..
to find these characters into..
to be able to replicate this band live!
Which is just... you know, it's very difficult to do.
And that was our ethos to make it as authentic as possible
and hopefully the fans will agree.
I know it's not gonna be easy.
♪ ♪
But I believe in you, guys.
♪ ♪
Win it all or lose it all!
We are Mötley Crüe!
♪ Whoa! Yeah! ♪ ♪ Kickstart my heart, give it a start! ♪
♪ Whoa! yeah! Baby! ♪ ♪ Whoa! yeah! Baby! ♪
(THUD!) (Laughing)
Motley Crew, here all week! Wooooahhhh!
[The Dirt] ♪ Okay boys, let's rock the house! ♪
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