You’ve gotta give punk rocker Iggy Pop credit for being courageous and performing shirtless at the age of 70. And watch out because he might surprise you with a stage dive! He’s still touring constantly and above, he’s performing in France. A movie was almost made in 2010 about Iggy and The Stooges early years, starring, of all people, Elijah Wood, but it never happened. Last we heard, Iggy was also dabbling in jazz.
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Here’s a pair of characters you might not expect to see at the Cannes Film Festival. Iggy Pop and filmmaker Jim Jarmusch could easily be chatting about the drugs they used to do back in the 80’s, as they prepare for a discussion about their new documentary Gimme Danger. Directed by Jarmusch, the film documents the rise of Iggy’s punk band The Stooges, starting in the 60’s. We were surprised to see that Iggy has one built up shoe – he says one leg is a couple inches shorter than the other and his reckless stage antics didn’t help it. Iggy says his drug days are over, but threatened to appear at the red carpet gala later with no shirt.
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