Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day is about to have a big year.
His band – currently on the cover of the latest Rolling Stone – is releasing its first record in four years on Oct. 7. They’re embarking on a sold-out tour next week that comes to the UC Theatre in Berkeley on Oct. 20.
Oh yeah … and he may be a movie star in a couple months.
The first trailer for “Ordinary World” was released Friday. The East Bay native plays an aging punk rocker, husband and father, who missed his chance to make it big, and his band has been on a 10-year “hiatus.” He now works at a hardware store. When his wife, played by Selma Blair, forgets his 40-birthday, depressing him even further, his buddies – including Fred Armisen – take him to a swanky hotel to celebrate and talk about the good old days.
He looks natural and funny in the first clip. Which makes sense since, if Green Day wouldn’t have made it big a couple decades back, that character might’ve been him.
“Ordinary World” hits theaters Oct. 14.
