Rosie: Hey, In addition to being one of the most famous names in rock-n-roll our first guest can now be seen on the big screen in not one, but two new movies, No Looking Back and The Leading Man. Please welcome back to the show, cutie patutie, Jon Bon Jovi. Well Hi Jon.

Jon:  Hi Ro.

Rosie:  How are ya?

Jon: I'm very well and you?

Rosie:  Good, were you lucky enough to be around town this weekend?

Jon: Yes, I certainly was.

Rosie: How bout that weather, huh?

Jon: I was out being the Dad as you were being the Mom this weekend. I was out at a Train Museum.

Rosie: Really?

Jon: How's that for being a good Dad?

Rosie: A Train Museum? Both your kids into trains?

Jon: Yeah, yeah I had to do like the whole touristy 45 minute ride and see Paridise Pennsylvania and, you know, which was next to Intercourse & Birdinhand and some of the people are going, yeah, okay, my kids are 4 and going "What's Intercourse Pennsylvania?" and I'm going "I don't know nothing about it". (Laughs)

Rosie: Now, are they past the Barney Movie phase?

Jon: No, no, no I fell victim to that too, but I knew that it wasn't opening until this Friday.

Rosie: You see obviously, a much better parent than I, thanks for bringing that up. Jon, now you're in this Vanity Fair Hollywood Hot Issue and take a look at you, little sexy man right there (and she holds up the picture in the magazine,and goes ooooh aahhhh and everyone screams and claps and Jon's embarrased) Are you enjoying your big actor status?

Jon: I'm enjoying it yeah, I really am you know. I'm not going to quit the day job but the films are going really well.

Rosie: Did you go to the Oscars?

Jon: I went to some of the parties.

Rosie: You did? Meet anybody exciting?

Jon: Yeah, I did, a lot of people were there I mean everybody that you could imagine wanting to meet but the highlight of the night to me was talking to Robert DiNero cuz it was probably the first time in 15 years I been star-struck, ya know, because you know with DiNero you know that he doesn't like to talk to anybody. So like you sorta wanta go "I know you don't like to talk to anybody, but I wanta be like the 99th guy in line that's talking to you, because everybody wants to talk to you." He's bigger than any rock star, any movie star, anybody.

Rosie:  And he was just standing at the party, or sitting in the corner?

Jon:  He was just making the rounds like everyone else and I just happened to catch him when he was going to the bathroom, so he kept dancing around like this.(Laughing)

Rosie: Oh really? What'd you chat about? Acting technique or anything?

Jon: Oh yeah, sure, uh no , I don't know, it was a lot of small talk, it's sort of like a blur, you know, because it's Robert DiNero so you sorta do open your conversation with "I know you don't like to talk, but" and so you get into it with him.

Rosie: Who else do you admire like that, like Robert DiNero sort of?

Jon: Oh God, guys just of our generation, I mean, that I'd carry their suitcases, you know, Sean Penn or Val Kilmer, or Cusack or there's alot a great guys.

Rosie: How bout Rock-n Roll wise, when you were growing up? Who did you admire in that way?

Jon: I loved guys like Southside Johnny, you know I mean...

Rosie: The Asbury Jukes?

Jon: The Jukes were it to me and obiously I liked Little Steven and Bruce Springstein who made records down in Jersey that made the impossible seem possible. Who knew that 18 years ago when I was startin out that I would be making records and you know, eventually doing that.

Rosie: You're still going to make records even though you're doing the movie stuff?

Jon:   Oh yeah, last time I was here performing the latest single, new records. Don't quit the day job.

Rosie:  Good. Good to know. Now your new movie, an Ed Burns film, you, Lauren Holly & Ed, No Looking Back. You play sort of her boyfriend who she is kind of not really into?

Jon:   I know, you know, I'm a nice guy, I have a job, you know, I come home at night, you know, what is she doin, she's running around on me.

Rosie: We've got a clip where you're trying to convince her, comon honey let's get married and she's kinda sayin, who are you?, get away. Take a look, Jon Bon Jovi in No Looking Back. (They show the clip) Ooh, she's hostile.

Jon:  The back of my head looked good in that scene, huh?

Rosie: Yeah, I was gonna say, all they got was the back of your head, it's a nice head though.

Jon:   The whole scene, yeah, a nice back of the head shot.

Rosie   Now this movie is open right now in New York and L A and on April 10th it opens everywhere else. Did you always want to act when you started doing this?

Jon:   No, no I had no desire to act whatsoever, um, I wrote a soundtrack to a film called Younguns, 7 - 8 years ago and um it was "time out" from the band really, it was an opportunity for me to do something different and it became immensely successful and I won a Golden Globe and I was nominated for an Academy Award and I'm sittin there at the Oscars and I'm going - This is fun, you know, I can get used to this.

Rosie:  Yeah, sure.

Jon:   So that was going to be my outlet, whenever I got tired with the band, I'd go and do soundtracks. Eventually, scripts dry up because not every director wants you to write them an album so I was getting more and more of the classic plays and scripts and I thought maybe if I take some lessons and get my hands on more - only to write songs - until I eventually got the courage up to say "Okay, well let's try this". I went and I had my first "meeting" quote, unquote, not a reading, not an audition, just a meeting, and I went and I sat there in this guys lobby for about 45 minutes and he apoligized and stuff.

Rosie:  With the Producer?

Jon:   The Director, the Producers and everybody and they were auditioning guys and they just wanted to talk to me for a little. I had flown in from Boston and uh - I got nervous - and I left - I just - I, I gotta go - and I split. And it was a year later before I was, you know, another years worth of studying, that I went through the audition process for Moonlight and Valentino and, you know, eventually won the role and, you know, now have done all these films.

Rosie:   Right, were they mad that you left?

Jon:  I never heard from them again so I don't know (laughing).

Rosie:  Obviously, you didn't get the part, I take it.

Jon:   I didn't get the part, no.

Rosie: And what's your other movie that you have coming out, as well.

Jon: Well The Leading Man is out, it's a smaller independent film, it's gotten just amazing reviews, but um, again, it's going to be a very small release. I did a film called Homegrown with Billy Bob Thorton that comes out next month. And uh, just completed something called Row Your Boat with a girl named Bi Ling who was in Red Corner with Richard Gere last year. So that's in the cutting process right now. So I've got a whole string of films.

Rosie:  Well congratulations to you and continued success, come back whenever any of your movies come out and whenever you want to sing.

Jon:  Thank you.

Rosie: And give your mom my love.

Jon:   I will Ro.

Rosie:   Alright - No Looking Back is the film - go see it.