Seven years before Gus Van Sant’s Psycho disaster, Flea appeared in another Van Sant film, the critically acclaimed 1991 dramaMy Own Private Idaho. Flea plays Budd, loyal manservant to mentor Bob Pigeon (played by William Richert), and the Chili Peppers bassist definitely holds his own alongside the bigger acting names around him. The movie, which is vaguely based on Shakespeare’s Henry IV and Henry V, stars Keanu Reeves and the late River Phoenix as drifter hustler buddies looking for inner truth. Rob Humanick of Slant Magazine wrote, “My Own Private Idaho might be the perfect cinematic time capsule for ‘90s aimlessness, universal in its details.” Interestingly, while shooting the film, Flea and some of the main cast members partied so hard that Van Sant was forced to flee his own home – where they were staying – to get some shuteye.