John Parks of Legendary Rock Interviews recently caught up with ANTHRAX bassist Frank Bello to discuss, among other things, his role playing legendary punk rock figurehead Richard Hell in the upcoming film, Greetings From Tim Buckley.

Frank Bello: "The movie really involves Jeff Buckley quite a bit. At the heart of it really it’s about him not really knowing his dad and playing a tribute concert to him and it’s pretty amazing. The whole thing was really a lot of fun to do. I play Richard Hell who was an acquaintance of Jeff’s dad Tim and was this legendary punk guy and I spent about a week shooting my scenes."

LRI: How did you get involved with acting to begin with?

FB: "It’s something I’ve been doing and been studying for a while now. I just really enjoy the creative end of it, getting into character and the whole art of that. I find it to be fulfilling and similar to the art of creating and living through your songs in music. It’s a hell of a lot of fun."

LRI: Anthrax has always been one of those bands who exhibited a definite punk influence so it’s pretty cool and fitting that you’d be playing a guy like Richard Hell. Did the years of playing in a band help at all as far as preparing for this?

FB: "Not really. As soon as I got the part I just sunk myself into doing a lot of research. I am a big Jeff Buckley fan and I really was familiar with his songs and I knew of his father Tim so I had heard of this Richard Hell character but I really only knew of him. There was really a lot of learning I had to do because I wasn’t that familiar with all of his music and his personality. It was a lot of fun once I started researching it."

To read the interview in its entirety, click here.