Released
inbetween 'Ever After' and 'Coyote Ugly', 'Detroit
Rock
City' was the least commercially successful of
Lynskey's
Hollywood ventures. Nevertheless, it is very
entertaining
to watch.
The plot centred largely on four boys who are determined
to
see their idols KISS in concert and about their adventures
along the way. Melanie plays Beth Bumsteen, the
love interest
of Sam Huntington's character, Jam. Her character's
name
was taken from a song by KISS.
Melanie broke new ground in the teen comedy genre by
getting it on in a confession box with Sam. The scene
became
popular and controversial in equal measure and was later
emulated in the 2004 US teen sex comedy 'Eurotrip'.
By her own admission, when she got the part of Beth,
Lynskey had never listened to any of KISS's LPs. In
spite of
this, she managed to get into character and by the time
the
cameras were rolling, she was totally the part, a rock
chick
from the 1970's, which explains her shirt. As well as
acclimatising her to making movies on American soil,
'DRC'
also saw her forge fresh friendships with Clea DuVall
and
Natasha Lyonne. They once spent a night on the town
in Los
Angeles in a limousine after a KISS concert that they
had been
given VIP tickets to and partied like other A-List Young
Hollywood actresses. Some months later, the three of
them
would be working together on the set of 'But I'm A
Cheerleader!'.
