by Ryan Stewart
“It all begins and ends with Animal from The Muppets.”
-Rainn Wilson
Robert “Fish” Fishman is in his early 40s. He spends his days as a quiet pencil-pusher in a Cleveland office park and his nights trying to forget about the time, 20 years ago, when he was the drummer of a rising pop-metal band called Vesuvius and was unfairly bounced from their lineup before they blasted off into the rock n’ roll stratosphere. On the eve of the band’s induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, he decides to distract himself by doing a little drumming for his nephew’s high-school garage band, led by the talented Curtis (singer Teddy Geiger) and the cute Amelia (Superbad’s Emma Stone) and that’s when fate opens up a window for an unlikely second chance at rock glory.
Rainn Wilson called up SuicideGirls recently to talk about The Rocker – how he relates to late-bloomers like Fish, why he thinks drumming is “inherently funny” and whether hair metal bands actually belong in the Hall of Fame.
Read our exclusive interview with Rainn Wilson on SuicideGirls.com.
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