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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: How did the idea for the documentary come about?
JIM JARMUSCH:Well, it was eight years ago or so.
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I was like, “Iwillmake it!
I’m going to make it, man!”
Took me a while.
IGGY POP:I thought it was very important.
That was the idea.
Iggy, how much material did you have from the Stooges days?
Are you a pack rat?
POP:The opposite.
I had the photos of my mom and dad that appear briefly.
He and his staff found everything.
But I knew who a lot of the people were who had stuff.
Iggy, you talk warmly about your parents in the film…
…I think “treasure” is the word you use about the time you spent with them.
To be honest, I assumed you had a terrible upbringing…
POP:[Laughs] You mean, because of my personality?
I had assumed you were rebelling against
POP:Iwasrebelling against some things.
But they did nothing but give a shot to help me in life.
I mean, [when] you see them live, it islove.
That isn’t “Go fk yourself!”
It’s a joyful thing.
That love comes from his parents, too.
That’s a big deep thing.
When I got to see the Stooges reunited, I was high for days afterwards.
And I think some of that had to come from his parents.
I don’t know.
I don’t like psychoanalyzing.
Iggy, there’s no interview footage of you from back in the day in the film.
I couldn’t help wondering what that would have been like.
It wasn’t filmed, obviously.
But I was quoted.
I can’t remember it.
Iggy, what did you think ofGimme Dangerwhen you saw it?
POP:I’ve seen the film three times now.
I think [Jarmusch] thought, “Well, what happened here?”
[Laughs] That’s what really happened.
We went to New York and all this stuff happened.
And then we got back home.
And then we went to L.A. andthisstuff happened.
Ultimately, that’s about it.
A bunch of very naive people except for the art part.
But we were notofthe machine.
And so there were things that happened interesting things that happened!
And then we’d come back in a certain situation, and he showed that, I think.
JARMUSCH:They were making basically experimental music, too, without trying to be too academic about it.
But this wasnotCrosby, Stills & Nash, you know what I mean?
This was Midwestern stuff, so that speaks to me always, still.
And still won’t, probably.
