Green Day on the Real-Life Shenanigans That Inspired the Band’s Film ‘Nimrods’: ‘There’s a Lot of Our Lives in There’

The three members discuss how their real experience of stealing cars, going broke and bringing a puppet on tour made into their feature film.

Green Day (L-to-R) Tré Cool, Billie Joe Armstrong and Mike Dirnt in a scene from the movie "Nimrods."

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Longtime Green Day fans will find plenty of band lore throughout new film Nimrods. The film, which the band produced alongside Live Nation Studios, follows friends and bandmates Tommy (Mason Thames) and Fred (Kylr Coffman) as they trek across the country to open for Green Day and find themselves scrambling money together, staying in sketchy motels and stealing rides.

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