Avril Lavigne on What Fans Can Expect From 'Sk8r Boi' Movie, Including Possible Cameos (Exclusive)
etonline.comAvril Lavigne is turning her biggest hit into a film! The 37-year-old rocker spoke with ET’s Kevin Frazier and Nischelle Turner during the 64th annual GRAMMY Awards on Sunday, and shared where she is at with her «Sk8er Boi» film.“Well, I don’t have my cast yet, but I've been working on it already for two years,” the singer said about the project. “Songwriting, making an album takes like six months or a year.
Making a movie takes, like, five years.” While it’s not all set in stone, Lavigne promises she has already started. “I’ve got a writer and a director and just in the process of putting that all together,” she added. “I’m producing it.
So, it’s a whole new learning process for me and I'm excited to grow and go into a whole new adventure.” Lavigne doesn’t know exactly who the leading man will be, but she has an idea of the qualities the actor needs to have for the role. “He just has to have a ton of swag,” she noted of her skater boy. “We haven’t casted him yet.
But what’s cool is a lot of my friends in music, from all different bands, I was saying to, like, some of them, 'You have to make a cameo.'” One person she suggested is pro-skater and pal Tony Hawk. “When I skateboarded with Tony Hawk last summer, I was like, ‘Hey, you totally have to be in this skater boy movie, will you?’” According to Lavigne, Hawk just has one request, which was, “Just call me skater dad."“He doesn’t like to be called skater boy.
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