The Hollywood Reporter,<\/a>\u00a0John\u00a0says he really needed an actual musician to play Danny, because he’d chosen a non-musician to play Rick.<\/p>\n“Paul playing a singer in Ireland is already a slight push, but it\u2019s one that the audience will allow,” John says. “I can\u2019t ask them to do it twice.\u201d<\/p>\n
John\u00a0felt that Nick would bring “a\u00a0certain kind of mysterious, enigmatic reality and truth to the character that we really needed.” But as he tells The Hollywood Reporter, he was told it was “a bad idea.”<\/p>\n
“A lot of people in Ireland did think that there\u2019s something a little bit novelty about the Jonas Brothers. European audiences are a little bit more precious,”\u00a0John says.<\/p>\n
Others warned him that putting Nick in the movie would overshadow the project, but once the movie began shooting,\u00a0John says, Nick proved that he was the right choice.<\/p>\n
“Nick played this character really small. … You realize that\u2019s what those guys \u2014 those superstars, since they\u2019ve been seven years old \u2014 have. It\u2019s quiet,\u201d\u00a0John notes. \u201cHe wants to go and play golf and have a nice whiskey and talk about the part and go to bed early and call his daughter and his wife. That\u2019s what being a massive boy band star is like, really.\u201d<\/p>\n
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