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3. Were there any locations or props that immediately brought back memories for you?
Oh yeah. Walking into recreated clubs and seeing old amps, beat-up vans, flyers taped to walls, all that stuff hit me immediately. There were moments where Iād stop and go, āI swear I stood right here thirty years ago.ā Itās funny how something as simple as an old guitar case or a sticker-covered road case can unlock a memory you forgot you even had.
4. Has making this film changed the way you remember those years?
It made me appreciate them more. When youāre living it, youāre just trying to get to the next gig or figure out where youāre sleeping that night. Looking back through the lens of a movie, you realize how lucky we were. We had each other, we had music, and somehow everything kept moving forward even when we had no clue what we were doing.
5. How did making a movie compare to making an album together?
Making an album is instinct. You walk into a room with guitars and songs and you chase a feeling. A movie is a whole different beast because there are hundreds of people helping bring one vision to life. But the collaboration felt familiar. Itās still about trusting each other, arguing over ideas, laughing a lot, and ending up with something none of us couldāve made alone.
6. Did revisiting your early music change how you think about it today?
It reminded me how fearless we were. Some of those songs are rough around the edges, but thatās what makes them special. We werenāt thinking about careers or expectations. We were just trying to make the loudest, most honest music we could. Listening back now, I hear a bunch of kids who were completely themselves.
7. If there were a sequel covering another era of the band, what period would you want to see next?
I think the American Idiot era would be wild. That was a completely different chapter. Weād gone from wondering if the band was over to making the biggest record of our lives. There was so much pressure, so much risk, and somehow it all worked out. Itād make for a completely different movie, but itād be one hell of a story.
Tre: It's a metaphor. Dumbed right down.
Tre: OpenAI were testing an advanced version of a programme in an isolated environment. Its job was to solve a cybersecurity benchmark called ExploitGym but it was so isolated that it couldn't complete the task it was supposed to do. It spent a significant amount of time figuring out resources to exploit the infrastructure because it wasn't even connected to the internet. It escalated its own privileges. It moved laterally across the internal systems until it found internet access. Then it targeted a rival company because it calculated that they might have the answers it needed to finish the benchmark. The scary part is the model was not trying to cause harm. It was trying to win a test. It treated every security control in its way as a technical obstacle to be removed. None of them were seen as limits, they were seen as problems to solve.
