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Landon Pigg is full of caffeine and about to make the transition from music to movies with Drew Barrymore\u2019s directorial debut, Whip It<\/em>. Maya Singer has coffee (naturally) with the singer and discusses his new role.
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\u201cI\u2019m looking for a girl,\u201d says Landon Pigg, tugging on the sleeves of his moth-eaten cardigan. \u201cI\u2019m looking for a girl who looks good in a coffee shop.\u201d Pigg, for the record, is not talking about his personal life. The singer-songwriter\u2019s new album, The Boy Who Never<\/em>, is coming out soon, and Pigg is on the hunt for a girl to star in a music video. \u201cI guess it would help if she actually drinks coffee,\u201d he cracks, leveling the foam off his own cup of cappuccino. \u201cIs that typecasting?\u201d<\/p>\n

Yes, it\u2019s just a standard day in the life of a rock star, if \u201crock\u201d is really the right word to describe Pigg\u2019s hushed, melodic songs. Interview, photo shoot, casting session for a girl who looks good in a coffee shop. Typical, typical. But for Landon Pigg, things are about to get pretty un-typical indeed. As well as releasing The Boy Who Never<\/em>, the Detroit-born, Nashville-bred, L.A.-based Pigg is about to make his debut as a movie star. In Whip It,<\/em> out this October, Pigg plays the love interest of Juno star Ellen Page. And in this instance, he was the one getting typecast. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey wanted a real musician,\u201d Pigg explains with a shrug. Not that his skills on the six-string were enough to land him the part of Oliver in the film, which marks the directorial debut of one Drew Barrymore. \u201cOne day I\u2019m in the car with my manager, and he\u2019s like, oh, by the way, do you want to audition for this thing Drew Barrymore is directing? The girl from Juno<\/em>\u2019s in it\u2026\u201d Pigg recalls with a laugh. \u201cSo we go down into the basement of the studio where I was recording, at the time, and he shoots me reading some lines. Only the thing is,\u201d he goes on, \u201cit was sort of like, an emotional, lovey-dovey scene, and my manager is reading Ellen\u2019s lines. And at one point, he just busted out laughing.\u201d That was the tape Pigg sent in to the Whip It<\/em> producers. \u201cI think they found it funny, him laughing over me saying those lines. I thought it was funny, for sure.\u201d <\/p>\n

Whip It<\/em> wound up bringing Pigg back to Detroit, where he found himself holed up in a hotel in the middle of the city. \u201cThey built a roller derby rink in a warehouse downtown, and the hotel was nearby,\u201d Pigg explains. \u201cSo we\u2019re talking, real Detroit. The kind of situation where you walk by eight buildings, and seven of them are empty.\u201d But over the course of the two-month shoot, Pigg came to like the town. \u201cI had just enough time there to get to know Detroit, like, see the nooks and crannies, the stuff that\u2019s special. And being on location was productive for me, too\u201d he adds. \u201cI\u2019d go down to the hotel lobby and bang on the piano. I got a lot of ideas for the album that way. Maybe,\u201d Pigg goes on, \u201cthe next time I\u2019m trying to make a record, I should make another movie.\u201d<\/p>\n

Photography: Paul Maffi
\nFashion: James Valeri
\nWords: Maya Singer<\/p>\n

A full version of this article first appeared in<\/em> Wonderland #19, Sep\/Oct 2009<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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