So they were all incredibly supportive and incredibly informative.' In Spinning Gold, Stanley and Simmons are played by actors Sam Harris and Casey Likes, respectively, with All Time Low frontman Alex Gaskarth making his feature film debut as Criss. So I have it melting down their faces to show that these guys were working so hard on that stage and the costumes weren't figured out yet in '74, we don't really get to that kind of stuff in '78.' He continued, 'I always say that was going to be a thing, but early on it was the photos that Gene and Paul provided, and not just them, Peter Criss, I've spoken to endlessly about the project.

Speaking about a 'real scene that happened,' which takes place 'early in the film,' Bogart noted an infamous 'KISS concert at a Bar mitzvah venue, but the makeup was terrible. Paul was quick to point out, 'That's not the guitar I would've used, I would've used this one.' Bogart added, 'It's interesting because I always knew that the choice of doing the origin story of the makeup and the costumes might get people going, 'That's not the makeup.' But it wasn't the makeup in 1974, they didn't figure it out yet, and it was really bad makeup so it would melt down their faces.'

But when we started doing it, they were consequential.' The filmmaker then shared, 'I put them on the phone with the production designers, with the makeup artists, with the costume designers. And then, over the years, he got focused on more music. 'Early on when we first set it up in 1999, it was the first time I set it up, Gene, would be a producer on the project with us. 'There were years where Gene was going to produce it with us,' Bogart revealed during our conversation.

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