Iggy Pop, Alex Lifeson 'Suck' Up Their Cameos in Vampire Flick

International Film Festival, thrusts a band of no-hit wonders trying to get to a CMJ showcase -- ironically called the Winners -- into the clutches of a vampire clan with predictably bloody results. To really drive the point (or more specifically, flying V-stake) home, 'Suck' features a slew of real life rock 'n' rollers in a variety of cheeky guest cameos: Alice Cooper as a Satanic bartender, Henry Rollins as an obnoxious shock radio jock, Moby as the lead singer of a band that likes to be belted with raw meat, and Iggy Pop as a wizened record producer who tries to warn them that "Fame is not what it's cracked up to be -- cops arrest you and ask for your autograph."

Pop, who was the first rocker on board for the project and chose his role over the script's more nefarious types, tells Spinner he brought that line of dialogue to the shoot, based on his own experience with the police. "I was in a gas station in Miami Beach and two squad cars came screeching up and surrounded my car," he recounts. "I was really scared, like 'Oh my God, what did I do? What do they know?!' They just wanted my autograph. I don't mind when that happens. It's a lot more fun to be down with cops than the reverse."


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