Foo Fighters play heightened versions of themselves in their upcoming film Studio 666, but apparently it’s not that easy being yourself in front of the movie cameras.
Dave Grohl told Rolling Stone that Westworld star Jimmi Simpson “was actually brought on in case we had any questions or in case we needed someone to tell us how to be the Foo Fighters.”
Grohl admits he didn’t know who Simpson was, and hadn’t heard of another cast member. “I don’t watch movies or TV. Like [Studio 666 cast member] Leslie Grossman. I’ve never seen American Horror Story. I have no clue. I just think that they’re someone’s friend.”
Grohl also says that if not for the pandemic, which halted filming of Studio 666 just six days before the end of the shoot, the film would have come out alongside Medicine at Midnight. “We were going to try to pull a Blair Witch where we’re telling everyone that we recorded this album in a haunted house and giving them all of this [bullcrap] about instruments being detuned overnight, voices on the Pro Tools and things like that. We were trying to make a big deal out of the fact that we had recorded in a haunted house and it would just be bam and drop this movie out of nowhere.”
The Foos have released a song they recorded for the film. “March of the Insane” is billed to Dream Widow, the name of the fictional band that was killed 25 years before the Foos set up shop in the haunted house.
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