Rock Star (2001)

Timothy Spall: Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager

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• Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager : Whatever twirls your beanie baby

• [from interviews after Chris/Izzy has quit Steel Dragon] 

  Kirk : Well, as far as I'm concerned, it's much ado about nothing isn't it? There's still four of us left. We're the original four. We're not going anywhere.

  A.C. - Drummer, Steel Dragon : Look for the last time I don't give a fuck where he is and I don't really care if I ever see that little bastard again.

  Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager : He said to me, um, I need to take a piss. That's it. Uh, "Mats", he said, "I really need a piss."

  Chris : I just think one day I realized it wasn't for me anymore. You know? Just wearing the clothes and singing the songs. It just didn't feel right. I just wanted to find myself. Find my own music.

• Chris : What it is when you do something to somebody and they hate it? Then somebody does the same to you and you hate it?

  Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager : I suppose some might call it called "poetic justice". I don't know.

  Chris : All I know is I owe a guy named Rob a big fat apology, that's for sure.

  Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager : We all owe someone an apology along the way. I mean, that's life, man.

  [beat] 

  Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager : A long, long time ago, when I was at university, I was married.

  Chris : No. You were married?

  Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager : It was before you boys and that rock 'n' roll music corrupted me, man. Yeah, I still think about it sometimes. She was really a very sweet girl.

  Chris : What happened? If you don't mind me asking.

  Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager : No, no. One day we were sitting in the park having lunch, me and the wife. I needed to take a piss, so I walked to the toilet, you know, in the bathroom. I'm standing there staring at the wall, as you do, and all of sudden something came over me. Like a fear that my whole had already been laid out for me. I'd finish my studies, get a job. I'd be working for somebody else, worrying about things that didn't matter. So I walked out of the there. Kept going. Didn't come back.

  Chris : You just left her there?

  Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager : Yep. Sitting in front of a half-eaten steak and kidney pie. Very harsh, man. She came to see the show a few years ago. She hadn't changed at all. She married my best friend. A doctor. They have three gorgeous little kids. Yeah, she's very happy. Very happy.

• Mats, Steel Dragon Road Manager : Whatever rolls your beanie baby.