![]() Robbins attended Brown for three years, studying documentary film and music production. You can embrace the inner child and relax in a really incredible way.” “What I think psychedelic drugs do for people is bring you back to the beginner’s mind. “I’m a completely different person than I was the first time I took mushrooms,” he says, launching into a discussion of the link between Buddhist meditation and psychedelic drugs that he learned about as a student at Brown University. But now he’s more into mushrooms, which he says changed his life. Robbins admits he smoked a lot of marijuana in high school, and his mother famously argued on behalf of cannabis legalization for years. “I didn’t have to give him Huff ’n’ Puff 101.” “He really knows how to smoke, where when you ask a lot of actors to smoke on screen, it looks phony baloney,” says David Gordon Green, the filmmaker behind “Halloween. “Miles has the extensive knowledge and use of drugs.” “I mean, why does Tom Hanks play the everyman? Because he’s the everyman,” “Blockers” director Kay Cannon says with a laugh. Because no, it isn’t a coincidence that in three of his first big roles - the indie “My Friend Dahmer,” “Blockers” and “Halloween” - he plays a stoner. She’s always spoken her mind and been right.”) And he wants to talk about psychedelic drugs and how much they’ve impacted him. He wants to talk about his mom’s politics and how “ridiculous” he finds it that she was criticized for saying Trump would “bring the revolution” if elected as President. He wants to talk about his love of “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” and how he’d love to be the first straight contestant on the reality show. Or Universal, the studio releasing “Blockers.” “I know what this is for, and I should at least be a little nice for this one,” he says during one of the many instances he stops himself mid-sentence during our interview.īut he also wants to be himself. This is one of the things Robbins fears the trolls on the interwebs might take the wrong way. I have gotten as close as possible and been like, ‘Nah, not into it.’” How many straight women have kissed their girlfriends? The only reason I know I’m straight is because of the amount of guys that I’ve kissed. “Straight men haven’t figured out that they can kiss men yet or be comfortable with themselves yet. “Everyone was publishing articles saying that I was trans or non-binary,” says Robbins, who identifies as male and heterosexual. So he decided to respond by writing an op-ed in the Huffington Post: “Is It Really That Strange for a Guy to Wear a Dress?” ![]() ![]() In 2015, Sarandon mentioned in an interview that her son sometimes performed in female clothing - a comment that prompted a slew of headlines about Robbins’ sexuality. His character is Millie, a “disgruntled housewife” with an affinity for dresses and red lipstick. In his current psychedelic pop ensemble, the Pow Pow Family Band - “we play children’s songs for adult children” - he performs in drag. Eventually, music became a therapeutic outlet - “a way for me to explore the feminine quality of self expression that a lot of boys deprive themselves of.” Dick books - and thought playing music would make him seem cool. He started a band when he was 11 after watching “School of Rock.” He was dorky - obsessed with “The Matrix” and Philip K. Music, he explains, was his first true passion. “And then I found out he was just trying to pimp out my name, and it was clear he didn’t give a about the music I was making.” In his early twenties, when he was making a living as a disc jockey - “I hated saying I was a DJ, so I’d say ‘disc jockey.’ I at least wanted to explain that I owned discs that I was jockeying” - he met a manager who was interested in his music. The first girl he ever went on a date with, he later learned, only wanted to go out with him so she could score a ticket to the “Shrek” premiere. This was more of a struggle for Robbins when he was a boy.
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