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Green Day have spent the last couple weeks doing a lot of talking about Nimrods, which opens in theaters later this week. We already covered the first round of interviews during their Comic-Con takeover, but the press tour has kept going and they've dropped quite a few stories from the old van days along the way.

Rather than turn every interview into its own story, here are the good parts.

Variety and IGN at Comic-Con

Variety focused on how the movie came together with director Lee Kirk and the cast.
IGN asked if the American Idiot movie could become a thing still. Billie Joe says it still comes up: "There's always talks about it, but we just have to figure out when."

Billboard

Billboard got probably the best new info of the press tour. While explaining how the movie borrows from the band's real experiences of bumming rides from friends before they had a vehicle, Billie casually added: "And I did steal a limo once." So we need the full story for that...
"For example, Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong tells Billboard that the movie reflects how the band has toured in all kinds of strange vehicles, from a tiny Dodge Omni to a converted bookmobile that served as its first tour van.

"If one of our friends had time to take us somewhere, they would. We didn't have a vehicle. We would just hit them up for their car -- and that's in the movie," says Armstrong. "And I did steal a limo once, so that's what tied in the part where he steals his brother's car."

Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times interview is probably the best one if you're interested in the real Green Day stories hidden in the movie.

They talk about their van catching fire during their first European tour, getting stranded in San Luis Obispo and playing shows to repay the mechanic who fixed their van, and the mud fight at Woodstock '94 eventually turning into an actual fight.

Billie also offers a pretty good explanation for how any of this happened in the first place: "You have to be delusional to be in a band."

Another cool detail: The band felt that "Haushinka" worked so well during a driving scene in the movie that Green Day ended up putting the song back into their live set in 2025.

TheWrap

TheWrap's interview digs further into which parts of Nimrods came from real Green Day history. Billie also explains that his original idea was closer to 200 Cigarettes -- a New Year's Eve story about young fans trying to find Green Day -- before it evolved into the movie they ended up making.

Associated Press

The Associated Press interview spends more time on the bigger ideas behind the movie: Green Day's early touring years, fans discovering the band across different generations, working with Mason Thames and Mckenna Grace, and why actually going out and experiencing music still matters in the TikTok era.

CinemaBlend

CinemaBlend asked Billie about one misconception the movie could create: that touring around in a van meant constant partying.

It was apparently the opposite. They were driving themselves and basically acting as their own tour managers, so somebody had to be responsible.

"All [the partying] came after we got a tour bus."

CBR

CBR gets into why Green Day specifically didn't want to make a biopic, why Lee Kirk was the right person to make the movie and how they ended up with the Nimrods title.

Naturally, that conversation also leads to a joke about why calling the movie Dookie might result in some crappy reviews.

Fandango / Rotten Tomatoes

This is basically the band-banter interview. Fandango and Rotten Tomatoes released different cuts of the same Mark Ellis sit-down, covering their first concerts, road trips, favorite music movies and soundtracks, and even where they prefer to sit in a movie theater.

Don't forget to check out Nimrods in theaters on August 11th and 14th!

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