Flea has been interviewed by Rolling Stone as part of the promotion for his role in  the movie, ‘Low Down’; he talks about comparisons between his own life and that of the main character in the film especially growing up in a household where music and drugs played a large part plus Flea’s own experiences of taking drugs. Here’s an excerpt:

Given the parallels between Amy-Jo’s story and your experience growing up, what goes through your head when you’re watching the movie?
For me, the whole thing just feels very dreamy. Obviously, it’s a sad thing  – having a drug addict parent as a little kid and stuff. My greatest hope is that people see the freedom and the joy that’s there, too. Amy and I grew up in very similar circumstances: We’re the same age, and I grew up in Hollywood with a junkie jazz musician parent that’s like absolutely crazy. I read the script and I was like, “Holy fuck.” We were [both] like, yeah, there were the hard parts – the challenging parts of dealing with someone with a substance abuse problem and the bummer of it – but there was also the music, man. I was a kid, and those guys would be in my living room, playing, jamming, I just couldn’t believe that people could do that. It gave me such a high watermark for what human beings are capable of in my life. So I hope that you get that a little bit in the movie.

Full interview on Rolling Stone. For more on ‘Low Down’ the movie, please see our earlier post HERE