{"id":1191,"date":"2026-07-24T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/?p=1191"},"modified":"2026-08-14T10:01:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T10:01:36","slug":"singer-to-actor-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leoloves.co.uk\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/singer-to-actor-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Singer to Actor: Machine Gun Kelly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WARNING: <\/mark><\/strong>This Article May Contain Spoilers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m going to be completely honest, I\u2019ve never really been a fan of Machine Gun Kelly\u2019s. It\u2019s like the guy has never really found his genre as he has a habit of moving from pop-punk to rap to, I guess, a little bit of country. He fell even further down in my estimations when he decided it was a good idea to take on the rap-god himself, Eminem! He had to be crazy to think that was a good idea! Well, I may not rate him as a music artist but let\u2019s see if his acting is any different\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Dirt<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

              This goes to show how little I know about Motley Crue \u2013 I always thought Tommy Lee (played by Kelly in this film) was the lead singer not Vince Neil, meaning that I was concerned about using this film as I had assumed he would sing. Thankfully, that\u2019s not the case as Tommy Lee was their drummer. I guess this film isn\u2019t exactly about Motley Crue on the whole, but more about Nikki Sixx as quite a bit of the opening to the film seems to be him growing up and the lead up to the creation of the band, meaning that Kellly doesn\u2019t have as big a role as you would maybe expect at first. However, each member (including Tommy Lee) gets their own little voice over and \u201cintroduction\u201d like the fact that Tommy Lee introduces himself as being \u201call love all the time\u201d, <\/em>unlike Nikki. I feel bad for saying this, and they always say you shouldn\u2019t make the comparison, but I think Sebastian Stan made a better lookalike for Tommy Lee in Tommy and Pam <\/em>than Kelly does in this film. What I was happy to find out, is that Kelly actually learned to play the drums in order to portray Tommy Lee properly. Kelly seems to play Tommy as this young na\u00efve guy, almost like an exuberant child \u2013 especially considering he has no idea that his fianc\u00e9 has been sleeping with Nikki! Each character as the film goes on has their own moment to break the fourth wall and I have to admit \u2013 Tommy\u2019s a mixture of awesome and gross all at the same time!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nerve<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

              I\u2019ve actually had this film on my watchlist since it first dropped in 2016 \u2014 not because of Kelly, funnily enough, but because the whole concept grabbed me straight away. When he first shows up as the character @TYdontDY, I honestly assumed that was going to be the extent of his involvement: a quick cameo, a blink\u2011and\u2011you\u2019ll\u2011miss\u2011him moment. Then he pops up again during Vee and Ian\u2019s dare in the clothes shop. I\u2019m pretty sure he\u2019s the one who steals their clothes, too! And really, that\u2019s his whole function in the film as Ty \u2014 he drifts in and out of the dares, just another participant swept up in the madness that Nerve. He barely speaks, offering only a handful of lines to Vee and Sydney, which makes him feel more like a non-playable character in a computer game than a fully-fledged character, giving just enough to move the plot along. I\u2019ll be honest: they clearly wanted to land a big twist with Ty being under the mask in the final showdown dare, but the tattoos kind of gave the game away long before the mask came off.        <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Midnight in the Switchgrass<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

              Much like The Dirt, <\/em>this film is believed to be based on the true story of the Truckstop Killer in Texas, however the location has been changed. We meet Kelly\u2019s character of Calvin very early in the film, and I can only assume he\u2019s supposed to be a pimp considering Megan Fox\u2019s character of Detective Lombardo is posing as a prostitute when they meet. Let\u2019s just say she royally kicks his ass! This is one of only two scenes he appears and in both he appears alongside his future ex-fianc\u00e9. His second scene is around an hour into the film and he\u2019s only back because Lombardo goes to shake him down to find out who he had scared away when he busted her sting. It clearly hasn\u2019t been a long time between them meeting considering his face is still battered from her beating him up in the hotel room. They try to give him a little bit of humanity I guess when he tells her about seeing his father commit suicide but it\u2019s not really that important to his character or the storyline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Honorary Mentions<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

              I do have to admit, I wasn\u2019t expecting Machine Gun Kelly to have done that many films but when I looked his list, there were definite quite a few \u2013 centred mainly around 2016, including Viral <\/em>and The Land. <\/em>Considering I\u2019ve seen Bird Box <\/em>it shocked me that he\u2019s in it, but I guess I either didn\u2019t really know who he was when I watched it, or he didn\u2019t have that much impact in the film.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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