Nick Jonas on Playing a ‘Loose Version’ of Himself in John Carney’s ‘Power Ballad’ and the Lasting Success of His Disney ‘Graduating Class’

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Rafa Sales Ross Guest Contributor Nick Jonas is currently at the Red Sea Film Festival, where his wife Priyanka Chopra Jonas is set to receive an honor at the closing ceremony, but until very recently the actor was in Dublin shooting John Carney’s “Power Ballad” alongside Paul Rudd.

The project, described as a story revolving around a conflict between a rock star and a wedding singer, provided Jonas with the chance to draw from his own experiences as a musician to build the character of Danny Wilson.

Speaking with Variety from Jeddah, Jonas says he has long been a fan of Carney’s and that he first got an email around two years ago saying that the director was putting the film together and his name came up for the role. “I was so excited,” he says. “A year and a half later, John wanted to hop on a Zoom to talk and we hit it off right away.” Jonas says the fictional “Power Ballad” rock star is a “loose version” of himself. “Danny is someone who has come from a band, is becoming a solo artist and making that transition,” Jonas says. “Luckily, I had a lot of real-life experience to pull from.” “He is dealing with a lot of the pitfalls that I was fortunate enough to circumnavigate by way of being very close with my family,” he continues. “Having a tight-knit inner circle that hasn’t changed over the years has helped me get through relatively unscathed, but I was able to look at some of my peers over the years, see what some of those pitfalls were and draw on those experiences.” Does Jonas feel intimidated to thread those lines between the personal and the fictional so closely?

Not really, he says, as he is “someone who tries very hard to live a private life amidst a very public life.” “As social media has grown in the last.