Kevin Spacey is binnenkort te zien als hoofdperoon in een opmerkelijke muziekfilm over zanger en tieneridool Bobby Darin. Darin was eind jaren '50 erg populair en zou door een hartkwaal niet langer leven dan 16 jaar, maar is uiteindelijk 37 jaar oud geworden; hij overleed in 1973.

Zijn meest bekende nummer was Mack the Knife. In American Beauty, met Spacey, werd overigens een nummer van Darin gebruikt: As Long As I'm Singing.

LatinoReview had een interview met Kevin Spacey.

[eng]You blow this film away with your singing and dancing. A lot of audiences are going to be very surprised seeing Kevin Spacey, the king of drama and Oscar winner, shaking a leg on the screen. Is that one of the reasons you wanted to do this film?

"The reason I wanted to do this film was because I loved Bobby Darin and I feel that, in a lot of ways, because he died so young and he was so diverse, that his legacy has been dissipated. He is not as well known as if he would have lived a long life and done one thing really well - which in some cases made you famous. He didn't. He kept reinventing himself and sometimes to the detriment of his outward career. I just don't think he deserves to be the forgotten one of all those guys that you talk about in the Rat Pack and now we got Rod Stewart doing America's songbook. Then all these kids that win Pop Idol, they go out and do their first album and what are they doing? They're doing Bobby's music. They're doing Sinatra's music because they want to prove they can sing. So that's the initial impulse. On top of that, I used to do musicals as a kid. By the time I was 20, did a lot of musicals. But then I just never found the time or chance or opportunity or no one hired me. I auditioned. I've done "Gypsys" and "Damn Yankees" and "West Side Story" and "The Boyfriend." I did all these musicals so it's certainly been worth the wait for me. And also I guess because I love doing things where you get the chance to try something you've never done. Sometimes they don't like it when you try things you've never done. But this is so much in me. And as much as I want to try to get as close to Bobby Darin as I could, I'm no Bobby Darin. He was in a league of his own. And to anyone that has never seen his work, they should go out and get "Mack is Back" and "aces Back to Back" it's just remarkable to watch him, then realize how sick he was while he was doing this tuff. It was incredible what he overcame and how he just gave an audience everything he had. Here's a guy that knew at 12 years old he wasn't going to live long. He could have picked an easier life. He could have not smoked. But he just pushed himself to the edge every time. And the edge is an interesting place to exist. So for me, this is definitely one of these experiences where I'm walking the edge because it could go the other way. And I'm happy I've done a version of Bobby Darin, but the reality is that nobody hits that close."[/eng]

Het hele interview staat hier, voor meer foto's uit de film kun je hier terecht.