Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst donned his turn-of-the-millennium attire for the SXSW world premiere of “Y2K,” the Kyle Mooney-directed teen catastrophe comedy during which the rapper performs himself.

“Y2K” follows two excessive schoolers (Jaeden Martell, Julian Dennison) who crash a New 12 months’s Eve get together on the final evening of 1999 after they understand that the projected laptop apocalypse is definitely occurring earlier than their eyes. Claudette Godfrey, president of SXSW Movie and TV, launched the movie by joking that it was an sincere depiction of what occurred that evening.

Then, in a post-screening Q&A when Godfrey requested Durst how he celebrated Y2K, he dedicated to the bit. “Dude, are you trolling me?” he requested. “That is the A24 twenty fourth yr celebration of surviving Y2K. What the fuck is occurring right here? We’re all survivors, proper?”

The opposite solutions to Godfrey’s query had been much less illustrious, as stars Rachel Zegler, Jaeden Martell, Julian Dennison and Lachlan Watson had not but been born, Daniel Zolghadri was lower than a yr outdated and Mason Gooding was 4.

Mooney and his co-writer Evan Winter had been extra acutely aware than their actors had been in 1999 — however not by an excessive amount of. “I used to be 13. That was most likely the final yr I watched the Dick Clark ball drop with my household earlier than I began going to events,” Winter mentioned.

“I lived by means of 2012, so mass hysteria — I’m no stranger to that,” mentioned Zegler, referring to the idea that the world would finish on Dec. 21, 2012. “All of us purchased into 2012 and had been all very disenchanted that it didn’t occur for some purpose.”

Mooney had the thought for “Y2K” 5 years in the past. “On New 12 months’s Day 2019, after an evening of celebrating with Evan and our pals, I texted Evan: ‘There needs to be a film about two children going to a celebration on Y2K and it goes unhealthy.’ A few of the belongings you see on display screen occur.”

“I wakened very hungover to this textual content,” Winter mentioned.

“Congratulations!” mentioned Mooney.

“It was type of a completely fashioned thought in a single textual content,” Winter mentioned, “And I’m like, ‘Yeah, let’s do it.’”

“And now my fam is right here!” Mooney completed, smiling.

Watson’s character within the movie is a large Limp Bizkit fan who relishes the chance to satisfy their hero — which Watson says they had been greater than ready for.

“Fred is aware of this: I genuinely assume you hung the moon, so it was not that arduous,” they mentioned. “I used to hearken to a whole lot of Limp Bizkit, and I by no means thought that might work out effectively for my profession, after which I acquired this position. Kyle was like, ‘Hey, it’s best to most likely begin listening to some Limp Bizkit.’ I used to be like, ‘Bestie, you don’t need to prepare for those who keep prepared.’”

When requested a few notably disastrous (although considerably romantic) scene that takes place in a porta-potty, Zegler mentioned, “Let’s nip this within the bud: The pretend shit was scorching chocolate blended with glycerin, so it smelled wonderful. It was actually complicated to shoot. Jaeden Martell right here was overlaying my ear as a result of I stored speaking about how I didn’t need water in my ear, so Evan stored saying, ‘Get your arms over right here! We are able to’t see her face!’ However the take that acquired used is Jaeden defending my ear.”

Mooney mentioned that the characters in “Y2K” had been based mostly on “of us we grew up with,” to which Winters added, “I grew up with a whole lot of white guys with dreads,” referencing the supporting position Mooney performs within the film. “And I undoubtedly grew up with Rachel Zegler,” Mooney mentioned.

Because the viewers filed out of the Paramount Theater, Durst screamed out, “‘Y2K,’ motherfucker!” and posed for photos with followers earlier than wandering, draped in his neon tracksuit, off into the evening.