Post by Dom Sob on Jan 22, 2006 21:15:02 GMT -5
This spring, Motley Crue drummer plans to go before the lens of award-winning filmmaker Bruce Sinofsky, director of the warts-and-all documentary "Metallica: Some Kind of Monster."
"I had to do this," Lee said just days before leaving for the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, where he is scheduled to perform as a guest DJ while doing advance promotion for the as-yet-untitled film. "Everybody wants to be liked or admired. And when people only know you from tabloid snippets that have piled up over the years, you want to set everyone straight."
Unlike with his appearance on NBC's unscripted series "Tommy Lee Goes to College," or publishing his bestselling 2004 autobiography, "Tommyland," Lee views the documentary as the best way to put the real Tommy Lee on display.
"Doing the show, to me, that's not real — it's a little slice of who you are," Lee said. "There's so much more that's going on in my life that isn't suitable for prime-time network TV."
The director and his subject have yet to decide upon a narrative arc, but, Lee said, "Bruce has got some dark, really cool, bizarre ideas — it seems like a nice match."
And if the film presents a less-than-flattering portrait of him?
"That's cool," he said. "People's lives aren't always bright and sunny. That's not reality."
"I had to do this," Lee said just days before leaving for the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, where he is scheduled to perform as a guest DJ while doing advance promotion for the as-yet-untitled film. "Everybody wants to be liked or admired. And when people only know you from tabloid snippets that have piled up over the years, you want to set everyone straight."
Unlike with his appearance on NBC's unscripted series "Tommy Lee Goes to College," or publishing his bestselling 2004 autobiography, "Tommyland," Lee views the documentary as the best way to put the real Tommy Lee on display.
"Doing the show, to me, that's not real — it's a little slice of who you are," Lee said. "There's so much more that's going on in my life that isn't suitable for prime-time network TV."
The director and his subject have yet to decide upon a narrative arc, but, Lee said, "Bruce has got some dark, really cool, bizarre ideas — it seems like a nice match."
And if the film presents a less-than-flattering portrait of him?
"That's cool," he said. "People's lives aren't always bright and sunny. That's not reality."