Roger says he has been ‘recommended’ an actor for the biopic (Picture: Kareem Elgazzar/The Cincinnati Enquirer via AP)
It’s full beam ahead for The Who’s Roger Daltrey as he gives an update on his Keith Moon biopic.
In an exclusive interview with Guilty Pleasures, the music legend shared that the tribute to his late bandmate is coming along nicely.
‘It’s 99 per cent there. I’ve got the script with the director,’ Roger, 79, confirmed, teasing he already had a leading man in mind.
‘There is an actor recommended to me… he can do all the voices, he’s incredibly talented, won a lot of awards,’ he added. Is it Tom Hardy? ‘No. He’s not got Moon at all in him. I need the full Moon,’ he laughed.
Roger admitted that writing about the drummer, who died of a prescription drug overdose in 1978 aged 32, was a very painful experience.
He explained: ‘It’s reliving a lot of my life with somebody I loved, watching him self-destruct. The film is about genius you’re born with, that you can’t quite get to grips with… it becomes about addiction.
The Who frontman admitted it was a ‘painful experience’ writing about his former bandmate (Picture: Johnny Louis/Getty)
‘I want people to understand how smart, how funny, how flawed Keith was. He was one of those people we really need because, by God, it’s boring with all these new celebrities!’
Roger is a patron of the Teenage Cancer Trust, whose gigs return to London’s Royal Albert Hall on Monday, and he will host the final show, on March 26. See Teenage Cancer Trust for details. The Who’s Hits Back! tour is on the road this summer.
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