What was it like watching the movie last night with an audience? Have you gotten to do that before?

It was awesome. Yeah, this was the second time I've seen it with an audience. The first time was Cine Vegas, which is a film festival in Vegas. This was so cool, because this is my hometown, so it was cool to be at the Esplenade Theater. It was a lot of fun.

Your character in the movie describes herself as punk... is there any sort of musical resemblance to you and Amelia?

Um... no. And that's what I liked about it. She felt different than me, and she's not a smiler, and she looks at the dark side of things more often than the light side of things I'm a little more silver-lining, I think, in my life. That's what kind of drew me to it, especially in a comedy. Finding a character like that in a comedy that is so sardonic. Ya know, like completely stiff-faced, and the challenge of not smiling, and not cracking jokes.

Did you have to do a lot of research? What kind of research did you do?

I learned to play bass. That was a big part of it, because that's where she puts all of her passion. So that was important.

Did you pick it up pretty quickly?

(hesitant) ...Relatively quickly (laughs). I went to bass lessons every day in Toronto. But I learned all the songs from the movie, and I kind of just, you know, went about practicing, practicing, practicing until I had them down.

Do you play any other instruments?

Um... I dabble. Not well... no. Not well at all.

Dabble in what?

Dabble... I've played a bit of guitar, a bit of piano.

But you sing, so you're musically inclined.

Yeah, yeah. In a sense. But I'm by no means a musician by trade. I will not be making an album anytime soon.

How much free reign did you guys have with the script? Because when Jason Sudeikis would come on screen, he's firing off stuff, and there's no way that all of this stuff was scripted for him. He had to have come up with this stuff on his own.

Yeah, the majority of Jason's stuff was improv. He definitely went the distance with the improv. It was awesome. There were hysterical things that were not in the movie that had us dying. I've been really lucky to have a bit more free reign in House Bunny and Superbad. This one was quick. This one we knocked out pretty quick. There were two lines I wrote in this movie, but that was the extent of my free reign.

At least you had a little something.

Yeah, and it was great. And Amelia isn't too funny, by any means. She's not really coming up with jokes all the time, so what was scripted was definitely good.

Did you guys actually rehearse any of the stuff?

Yeah we did, all as a band to kind of get that feel down. We kind of needed to have that camaraderie as a band and get each other enough. For about two weeks before we started shooting, we rehearsed as a band pretty much every day. So it was pretty cool. We had a big empty house in Toronto.

So you guys were like a temporary little band.

A temporary little band.

Did Rainn have to learn to play drums too? It looked natural on the screen, but you could tell that he was kinda new at it.

Yeah, he had a drum coach named Stu who was hysterical, and was picking up chicks all over the place.

So the movie was about Stu then.

Yea it was about Stu. No no no, Stu's awesome. He taught Rainn how to do fills, because you can't really fake drum fills. Rainn practiced his ass off. Walter, Rainn's little son who looks exactly like him in the movie poster, now wants to be a drummer all the time. So, like, he was drumming out in the garage, and he's kind of passed it on to his child. So he had to really learn and buckle down. He did a great job.

You guys think you might do a show out here?

Hopefully (laughs). Rainn and Walter together.

Coincidentally, there is a local metal/punk band out here called A.D.D.

Are you serious?

Totally serious.

Who knew?

I did.

I will have to myspace them.

So is it better to be a movie star or a rock star?

Well, I don't really know much about either quite yet. I don't really know how much I'll know about rock star, but it was pretty awesome to be in rock stardom for a day.

You did a lot of touring in the movie. Do you do much traveling as an actor?

Well, I haven't really traveled too much yet for acting. We shot Superbad in L.A., The Rocker in Toronto, House Bunny in L.A., and Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, which is the movie I just finished, in Boston. So hopefully there will be more traveling.

You've got some big-name actors in the Ghost movie, are you pretty excited about that?

Yeah! It was pretty cool. I play a ghost, so the only person I really did scenes with was Matthew McConaughey, and he's great. He's funny. (laughs)

Did he keep his shirt on?

Everyone always asks that. "Did he keep his shirt on?" and "What's he gonna be like as a dad?"... "Yes" and "Great." (laughs)

In The Rocker, Fish likes to rock out with a pocket of puke. Anything you like to do to get pumped up before you perform?

Oh man... um... probably, like, drink a Red Bull? Or some water.

Wow.

Yeah, there's some seriousness going down.

Well, you've got a lot of fans in the comic book industry.

Oh! Seriously?

Yeah.

I didn't know that.

So, would comic book-related roles be something you would be interested in?

That would be awesome.

You know, in this big boom of comic book movies.

Yea, definitely. I know there's some graphic novel that they're making soon that sounds pretty cool. Yeah, there's some cool things coming out. They're doing The Jetsons... but that's a cartoon. Comic books. Why comic books?

Because you're a hot chick.

Ha! Thanks! That's so funny, I had no idea.

Any character you can you think, maybe, you would have been interested in playing?

I would have loved to have played Mary Jane in Spiderman.

You know what, I think that could be the general consensus on the character.

That would have been really cool.

I think you would have fit a lot better in that role.