Landon Pigg
October 2009
So, it’s been a pretty good month for you!
A lot of good things, a lot of good things. It’s pretty neat.
How was the L.A. premiere of Whip It?
You know, it was a flawless experience. It was only the second time experiencing anything like that, the first being Toronto Film Festival when it premiered, but it was really built up, this L.A. one. Few times can something be really built up and not be disappointing, and this was one of those times. The most shocking thing about this premiere and being on the red carpet was that the red carpet was black!
How did you get the role of Oliver?
Basically, it didn’t really have much to do with me, except for indirectly, as I’ve been writing songs for the past several years. I think the director had heard some of my songs and liked them, and she was interested in casting a musician as an actor instead of the other way around. I like opportunities that come outta left field. So I went for it, and after a few auditions later and a chemistry read with Ellen Page, things progressed from there, and I found myself in Detroit in pre-production.
Do you intend on furthering your acting career?
The experience was a tidal wave of just new experiences and new things that I’ve never felt before. That can be [a] really lively, invigorating experience. It’s good for songwriting, too, when things tug at you in new ways. So it was a blast, and if there’s another movie that was half as fun to make as this one, I’d be honored to give it another whirl, but ‘til then, I’ll just be writing and touring and having a good time doing that.
How have you handle the success following the exposure of “Falling in Love at a Coffee Shop?”
It’s opened avenues I think for people to have heard my music that isn’t just within the industry and my friends, so now it’s like people that I haven’t met before or people that are famous at doing other things that you never would find yourself crossing paths with have heard some of your kinda heartfelt material and that’s exciting because all of a sudden you’re on the same foreground as these other people that have popular voices and that’s fun to be in the same creative pool as a lot of those folks and gives you opportunities to collaborate potentially.
Who never…?
(long pause) umm maybe kiss/make out under water while…uh no wait, I have done that once! I’m trying to think of another good one. Score a movie, how about that?
Expect tour?
They can expect to not regret coming. It’s a blast. There’s some new material, some old material, there’s stuff that sounds nice to a glass of wine sitting down and then there’s stuff that sounds good to a PBR standing up and rocking out, so I give a little bit of everything. As always, we’re just having a fun time on stage. Touring in the vans, there’s a ton of traveling, right? And almost the majority of your time is not playing music, it’s doing all the things to get you to the venue to the city that you are able to play your show so for all those kinda logistics, everytime that we get on stage it’s just so fun and it’s a pleasure to be there cause you’re playing songs and it’s just a real treat, so they can expect to see us have a blast up there.
I just haven’t felt cold weather in a while and it feels great. It’s another one of those kinda new experiences it’s like “oh yeah’ It kinda expands your world for a second. I love it. we’re getting to wear our jackets and our hats. Cold weather always makes people huddle together and that’s what this tour is gonna be like, you know, whether figurative or literally. We always try to make it happen cold weather so we can huddle together. That’s for free, right there!
Links: Official Site | Facebook | Twitter
A lot of good things, a lot of good things. It’s pretty neat.
How was the L.A. premiere of Whip It?
You know, it was a flawless experience. It was only the second time experiencing anything like that, the first being Toronto Film Festival when it premiered, but it was really built up, this L.A. one. Few times can something be really built up and not be disappointing, and this was one of those times. The most shocking thing about this premiere and being on the red carpet was that the red carpet was black!
How did you get the role of Oliver?
Basically, it didn’t really have much to do with me, except for indirectly, as I’ve been writing songs for the past several years. I think the director had heard some of my songs and liked them, and she was interested in casting a musician as an actor instead of the other way around. I like opportunities that come outta left field. So I went for it, and after a few auditions later and a chemistry read with Ellen Page, things progressed from there, and I found myself in Detroit in pre-production.
Do you intend on furthering your acting career?
The experience was a tidal wave of just new experiences and new things that I’ve never felt before. That can be [a] really lively, invigorating experience. It’s good for songwriting, too, when things tug at you in new ways. So it was a blast, and if there’s another movie that was half as fun to make as this one, I’d be honored to give it another whirl, but ‘til then, I’ll just be writing and touring and having a good time doing that.
How have you handle the success following the exposure of “Falling in Love at a Coffee Shop?”
It’s opened avenues I think for people to have heard my music that isn’t just within the industry and my friends, so now it’s like people that I haven’t met before or people that are famous at doing other things that you never would find yourself crossing paths with have heard some of your kinda heartfelt material and that’s exciting because all of a sudden you’re on the same foreground as these other people that have popular voices and that’s fun to be in the same creative pool as a lot of those folks and gives you opportunities to collaborate potentially.
Who never…?
(long pause) umm maybe kiss/make out under water while…uh no wait, I have done that once! I’m trying to think of another good one. Score a movie, how about that?
Expect tour?
They can expect to not regret coming. It’s a blast. There’s some new material, some old material, there’s stuff that sounds nice to a glass of wine sitting down and then there’s stuff that sounds good to a PBR standing up and rocking out, so I give a little bit of everything. As always, we’re just having a fun time on stage. Touring in the vans, there’s a ton of traveling, right? And almost the majority of your time is not playing music, it’s doing all the things to get you to the venue to the city that you are able to play your show so for all those kinda logistics, everytime that we get on stage it’s just so fun and it’s a pleasure to be there cause you’re playing songs and it’s just a real treat, so they can expect to see us have a blast up there.
I just haven’t felt cold weather in a while and it feels great. It’s another one of those kinda new experiences it’s like “oh yeah’ It kinda expands your world for a second. I love it. we’re getting to wear our jackets and our hats. Cold weather always makes people huddle together and that’s what this tour is gonna be like, you know, whether figurative or literally. We always try to make it happen cold weather so we can huddle together. That’s for free, right there!
Links: Official Site | Facebook | Twitter
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