Watch Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong Play an Ordinary Guy in a Clip From 'Ordinary World' (Exclusive)
Looks like Billie Joe Armstrong caught the acting bug. Between 2010 and 2011, the Green Day frontman appeared in 76 performances of the Broadway smash rock opera American Idiot (based on the band’s album of the same name) in a supporting role as the unhinged drug slinger St. Jimmy.
Now Armstong has his first lead film role in Ordinary World (no relation to the Duran Duran song), a comedic drama about a former rocker/current hardware store worker who thrashes a little too hard on his 40th birthday.
You can see what sets the ruckus in motion in our exclusive clip above. Perry Miller (Armstrong) is lamenting to his boss, Jake (Chris Messina), that his wife (Selma Blair) has forgotten his big day. Taking pity on Perry — and despite the fact that he’s hardly Employee of the Month — Jake laces him with a stack of cash to “blow it out.”
You’ll have to watch the film’s trailer for a taste of where that money goes, but we’ll tell you there’s a five-star hotel, stripper, and party monster named Gary (Fred Armisen) involved.
Ordinary World was written and directed by Lee Kirk, who last directed his wife Jenna Fischer in the 2012 release The Giant Mechanical Man. The film co-stars Judy Greer, Dallas Roberts, and cameo king Kevin Corrigan, and features original music by Armstrong (the titular track appears on Green Day’s upcoming LP, Revolution Road, out Oct. 7).
You can see Ordinary World in theaters, on Digital HD, or on demand Oct. 14. Watch the trailer:
