Dave Grohl didn’t need agents to get Lionel Richie to appear in his “Studio 666” movie. The Foo Fighters frontman simply reached out to his old music buddy to say “Hello.”
“When I read ‘Lionel Richie’ in the finished script, I thought, ‘Amazing. I’ll just text him,’ ” says Grohl, 53. “So I texted him like, ‘Yo, we’re making a horror film. Wanna be in it? And he texted back, ‘Absolutely!’ That was it.”
The downside: Richie brought distracting drama to the ridiculous horror comedy.
“After his first take, (Richie) goes, ‘You want me to turn it up a bit?” I was like, ‘Yeah!’ ” Grohl recalls. “And he ramped it up, man. It was so hard to keep a straight face with Lionel Richie screaming at me. That was a surreal moment.”
Expect many more of those as “Studio 666” hits theaters nationwide Friday. For starters, there’s the whole concept of Grohl starring in a blood-splattered film that involves satanic possession and killing his bandmates in over-the-top ways.
