Hello fans & friends, Mike here. Sorry I haven't blogged in a minute. Been super busy. Won't make this too long (wait, don't I always say that then ramble on for 12 paragraphs? haha). Just wanted to keep you up to date on what I been up to, what is next, and clarify some comments I made in a recent interview....
- I am currently in NYC filming Truth or Die with director Ron Howard, and actors Gary Oldman, Sean Penn, Olivia Wilde, and Keira Knightley. It has been a complete BLAST and we will be here until mid March. So much fun. Standing above NYC everyday has been a challenge since heights is my biggest fear but it will turn out for a great movie.
- While here in the apple my band Chants of Reign and I have been recording our third album "Ill Escape" which will mostly be instrumentals and a few songs with lyrics. The sound of the album will be very unique and borrow heavily from the current dub-trance sound that is very popular right now. The point of the record is to chill and relax to ambient and soothing music. It will have 3 singles we plan to release in the summer and fall, all positive and uplifting music. Expect the first single "Invincible" to hit sometime in April and the album will be in stores around June. Can't wait for you guys to hear some of these tracks.
- Obviously in May I will be promoting the new Bond film and then Natalia and I are expecting the birth of our son in late May. We already have decided on a name for him and it is pretty EPIC. I promise you have never heard of a name like this. The first name isn't too crazy, it's one of the world's largest cities, but the two middle names, as far as I know, have never been used as NAMES before and are quite unique, yet there's a ring to it when you say it. It flows real well together and I have a feeling a lot of people will be copying us when they hear it. Haha. Can't wait to shock the world with this one.
- This summer my band and I will be on tour in EUROPE with BOOMKAT, one of my favorite artists. Get your tickets now!
- In the fall I will be mostly in Los Angeles filming TED with director Seth McFarlane and actress Amy Adams. Also we will be recording our 4th Chants of Reign album as well, "The Last Romantic Left and his Phunky Phresh Phlow". This album has me so excited. It will be more R&B and funk based and have a romantic vibe to it. We will work with producers such as 40, DB Smooth, Jamiroquia, Daft Punk, you name it. Drake has agreed to be on a track. My boy from True Hollywood Story Tito Craig will be on a track. This record will be a straight up PROBLEM!!!! The sound is something like the type of music you play in your apartment on Valentine's night as you cook dinner and wait for your significant other to arrive. Very sexy and classy. Babymakers for sure. New swaggy sound. Once again we will be chameleons changing our sound. Unlike other bands where their fans love them for their one sound they stick to, our fans love us because of the emotions and moods and feelings our music puts them in, and we adapt to whatever sound we feel helps us best put you in that mood. That album will be out February 2014!
- Last but not least, my future. I know in a recent interview I mentioned possibly retiring from acting. I think what I meant to say was take a long "break". My good buddy DiCaprio mentioned recently he was gonna do the same. This industry can really tire you out, especially when you put in as much work as we do each and everytime we play a role and when you get nothing out of it you sometimes can feel, WHATS THE POINT? I do NOT want fans to worry. I am not pulling a Jared Leto and doing music full time. I still love acting and will still act, but only if the role is something that truly speaks to me. After TED comes out in 2014 I honestly only see myself doing the rest of the Bond films and maybe focusing more on music and maybe directing again. I honestly cannot wait to direct another movie. That is becoming my new passion. I just do not want to see myself on screen all the time just to see it. In my acting as you all know I am a chameleon of many different looks and I can't think of a look I haven't tried yet. Until I get to play Michael Jackson or a midget or a sickly guy in a wheelchair or Freddy Krueger or something, I just feel it's all old and been done before. I am looking for that next great transformation (think Heath Ledger as the Joker, Robert Downey Jr. in Inglorious Bastards, Gary Oldman in Shortcomings) and I just don't see any scripts right now that offer me that. It's quite sad. Who knows, we will see....
...Honestly I just feel the need to get my personal life in order over the next few years. One can be seen too much in this industry and maybe I need to disappear for a while and figure some things out. Some personal things. I look at young actors coming up in the game right now that I am a huge fan of...such as Alex Pettyfer, Sebastian Stan, Juno Temple, the amazing Jennifer Lawrence who I got to work with in Trust Me (p.s. J-Law and Bruce Willis are the ONLY 2 actors who have ever intimidated me on set, just with either their overall presence or raw talent, which shows you how great she is) and when I see these young actors and read their interviews, they remind me so much of me when I first started. So raw and fresh and new and hungry to be the best and learn...but also so lost. Not in a bad way, but in the sense of the fact that they are vagabonds with no real attachments, how they can't maintain a relationship and how that is not important to them, and I don't want to be that lost soul anymore. I came into this industry at 17 years old back in 2002 very lost and alone and searching for something and looking at where and who I am now, I shouldn't still be that same person, yet in a way...I am. That bothers me.
...I look at my ex-girlfriends Kristen Bell and Megan Fox. Both are married now. Megan just had a son. She has matured so much. Kristen is about to be a mother. We talk all the time. Have a GREAT friendship. She gives me wonderful advice. They are where I feel I need to be. I'm gonna be a father soon. It wasn't under the circumstances I always planned or imagined but it strangely feels it is happening at the right time and I am embracing it fully and couldn't be more excited. Natalia is a wonderful woman whom I'd love to be with "officially" but there are reasons why we can't which I refuse to comment on out of respect to her privacy. I want to be married and completely happy and stable in my personal life with ONE WOMAN and know where my source of satisfaction comes from each and everyday. I want to come home to a stable and happy and normal life. The one I never had growing up. I look at Robin Thicke and Paula Patton, Justin and Jessica Biel. I want a sexy fun mature relationship and to do good work outside of that. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner are a perfect example. I want satisfaction to come from the people around me and not need it from a world tour or albums sold or an Oscar statue or a million dollar contract from the Broccoli's. The happiest people I know aren't the richest or most famous, but the ones who are in love with someone who loves them back just as much. Each day can be a struggle to know what the point of it all is. I am sick of being numb and cold to it all and the vices we all use (drink, drugs, food, music, money, sex, etc.) to kill the pain. There is truly only one HEALTHY and LASTING thing that can give you the strength and clarity to face the world in a positive way and that is the love and devotion of another good human being who is your equal and understands you. Once my real life is where I need it to be, then maybe everything else will fall into place. Until then, enjoy the stuff I do now over the next 2 years and I will see where the chameleon shows up after that.....
Until next time,
Me
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