There’s a story behind this one. A couple of months back we asked Mike for an interview, but then he got busy (landed two indie movies, kudos to Mike), we got busy, and we figured it was one of those things that just didn’t work out, no big deal.

So last Saturday we are at Creation Entertainment’s Official Twilight Tour in Chicago and we are on line to get some autographs from Mike. We chat with Mike as he’s signing some items for our movie event giveaways and then we walk away from the table saying thanks.

So, the next thing we know Mike gets up from behind the table, flags us down, and says, “Hey wait, don’t I owe you guys an interview?” We told him not to worry about it, and were flattered that he remembered, but he said, “No, no I owe you guys. How about we do it later tonight?”

So long story short we quickly dug up our interview questions, and thanks to Creation allowing us to use their green room we were able to interview Mike. Now you have to understand that we interviewed him about 5 minutes after he had the crowd eating out of the palm of his hand doing this, and he had to be exhausted.

We hope you enjoy the interview as much as we enjoyed doing it. The whole story, in our opinion, shows how dedicated Mike is to fans.

Mike Welch does these what he terms “Jim Carey meets Jack Black” lip sync /karaoke comedy routines. We’ve seen him do Bohemian Rhapsody and I’m Telling You from Dreamgirls where we were laughing so hard we couldn’t breathe. He added Barracuda to his repertoire this past weekend at Chicago’s Official Twilight Tour.

Via TwiCrack

Arizona fans, here’s a heads up.  Mike Welsh’s new film “Lost Dream” will be featured at the Tuscon Film Festival from Oct. 9 – 11.  Mike will be attending the premiere on Sunday Oct. 11 at the historic Rialto Theatre in downtown Tuscon.  For more information about the film including clips and trailers, visit their website.

The festival will be held October 9th – October 11th. Lost Dream will be on Sunday ( October 11) at the Historic Rialto Theater downtown Tucson at 9 P.M. Across the street from the theater is the famous Congress Hotel where John Dillinger was finally caught and killed.

Short Synopsis:

Two college students, Perry and Giovanni, develop a delicate friendship based on their mutual suicidal behavior. Perry, the son of a corrupt Congressman, is tormented by his position in society. Giovanni, distraught by a troubled childhood, has lost his desire to live. Together, they challenge each other’s existence in search of salvation.

Note the film is intended for mature audiences. It wasn’t been rated by the MPAA, but if it were it would be an R rating (we assume) so use your judgement.

So, even with the press release we aren’t quite sure we understand this whole thing, but here goes:

Near as we can figure it’s the acne product ACZone putting on a web musical starring Mike Welch and others that is a send up of HS Musical, Spring Awakening, etc. Read the press release yourself, maybe you can figure it out better than we can.

Anyway, check out the videos here. Mike appears in the main segment and in the “news flash” section that appears to the left. He sort of does the Twilight dance in the first video.

Mike Welch sat down with Interview Magazine and chatted about his current work and New Moon:

LM: What about the paparazzi? Did you guys have to deal with that a lot?

MW: [LAUGHS] It’s funny you ask; we did, actually. It was my first experience with the paparazzi. They even got us when we were coming off the plane. I learned that they can just take a situation and put it into any context. There was one point when Taylor was talking to some people and the paparazzi took a picture and then I saw it online with a caption underneath that was like, “Taylor Lautner takes the time to talk to his fans, while Michael Welch is a jerk and just sits in his trailer …” It was just so weird. It’s a fascinating process to be a part of something this big, and this popular, ‘cause it’s sort of a double-edged sword. But I mean, I certainly have nothing to complain about; I’m very grateful to be involved.

LM: What’s happening with your character this time around?

MW: Well, you know, Mike Newton doesn’t go through too much of a journey, I’ll be honest. He sort of has his role to play in Bella’s life. In the movie it’s pretty much all about Bella, and how he relates with her, and him just being hopelessly in love—the character that is just really empathetic, and a little bit tragic in a lot of ways.

Read it all here.