‘Swing Vote’: Talking Movies, Politics with Kevin Costner
By Emily Christianson, Hollywood.com Staff
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Monday, August 04, 2008
HW: What are you playing these days?
KC: I'm trained on the piano classically. I grew up in the church and so my grandma played the piano. My mom and her sister were in the choir. I was a 9 year old wise man every Christmas, but I continued on doing music. I took up the guitar so I play guitar and we write music. The band plays original tunes and that's what makes it fun for me.
HW: How did you get your band involved with the movie?
KC: That was a no brainer for me because all the guys would work for scale. Cheap. No one would give you any lip about how big their trailer was. So I suddenly had the band right where I wanted them, doing whatever I wanted, but they're my friends so finding myself sometimes on location for three months it's nice to have friends around. They were only around for a week or so. They all wanted love scenes. They all wanted to be doing stuff. I just told them no [laughs]…We were always The Half Nelsons [in the script]. Some of us were always incarcerated, but the actual playing of a song – we wrote that song for the movie.
Swing Vote opens in theaters on Aug. 1, 2008