“He’s pulling catchphrases on me,” John laughed, adding that he’s even used Uncle Jesse’s “have mercy” quote. “But mocking. Not like it’s cool or anything.”
Billy has also taken to critiquing his dad’s performances, which John confessed is both “inspiring and it’s annoying.”
“I’m doing Nightmare Before Christmas at the Hollywood Bowl,” John shared, “and I was just trying to learn lyrics. He says, ‘Dad, put an image with it.’ I said, ‘Shut up.’”
Jokes aside, Billy also had notes for John’s acting choices as he takes on the role of Lock, which was made famous by Paul Reubens in the 1993 cartoon.
“We were singing last night in the car, and he said, ‘You’re gonna do a different voice, right?’” John recalled. “’You’re gonna do a higher, kind of more of a charactery voice?’”
Still, having kids later in life was especially meaningful not just for John, but also for former Guns N’ Roses drummer Matt Sorum, who passed the torch to the John this year to help provide students at Los Angeles’ Rosewood STEM Magnet Elementary School with a music education through the Adopt the Arts Foundation in partnership with Five for Fighting‘s John Ondrasik and his Let Music Fill My World charity.
“We have kids later in life—it’s just a different experience as far as what we think,” Matt, 64, shared with E!. “When we wake up, the first thing we wake up to is our kid. And it’s just on. It’s not like the old days we’d sleep in a little later.”
