Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong cast in indie film

Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong has been cast in
Like Sunday, Like Rain
, a new independent drama film from writer/directory Frank Whaley. It will also include Gossip Girl's Leighton Meester who leads as a struggling musician who becomes the guardian of a 12-year-old music prodigy one summer.
Armstrong will play her boyfriend and Will and Grace's Debra Messing will play the prodigy's mother.

The film has begun shooting in New York.