September 1, 2000 – "The kid does not act," says director Marcos Siega of Papa Roach frontman Coby Dick. "After the first take, he just broke down and started crying. He poured it all out in front of the camera. He was so wound up that he couldn't contain himself afterwards. We cleared everyone away for his performances so he wouldn't have any distractions. He knows me pretty well, so he felt comfortable enough to just let it all out. I kept assuring him – 'The more you give me, the better this will be.'"

Siega is recalling the shoot for Papa Roach's new "Broken Home" video. P-Roach ruled the video roost for most of the summer with "Last Resort," a regular on MTV's "Total Request Live." That critically acclaimed clip pushed the song "Last Resort" to #1 (on Billboard's Modern Rock and Mainstream Rock charts, as well as on Gavin and R&R's rock lists) and the band's debut album, Infest (DreamWorks Records), to the Top 5 of Billboard's album chart and double-platinum certification. So the members of P-Roach didn't hesitate to enlist "Last Resort" director Siega to helm the video for "Broken Home," the second radio cut off Infest.

After all, Siega's track record is pretty good. "Last Resort" earned widespread praise, exemplified by an "A" review from Entertainment Weekly, which reported, "By exposing teens' inner lives to the mass media, Roach's video makes the most hidden feelings acceptable – a noble feat." Even before his association with Papa Roach, the director had achieved success with Blink 182 ("What's My Age Again") and P.O.D. ("Southtown"), among many others.

"My biggest fear was that this video wouldn't be as good as the last one," Siega confides, "especially since 'Last Resort' had just been nominated for an MTV Video Award [Best New Artist in a Video]. But I knew if we just did something that felt real and personal, we'd be okay." Indeed, as children of divorced parents, both Siega and Papa Roach frontman Coby Dick feel a deep emotional connection to "Broken Home." According to Dick, the song is about "divorce and being the kid caught in the middle, feeling it's your fault but finally realizing it isn't."

Says Siega: "When we were filming the first video, Coby and I were telling each other about our families, and there was a similarity in that both of us had gone for years without speaking to our dads. We kind of bonded over that." It's not surprising, then, that when Siega first heard "Broken Home," he was "totally blown away." The director explains: "It just struck me as such a well-written, extremely powerful song. I immediately wanted to do something that would hit just as hard visually."

Filmed at a small house in a middle-class neighborhood of Burbank, Calif., the video opens with an idyllic, David Lynch-like montage of suburban life, then cuts away to reveal a family on the verge of absolute disintegration. "I definitely wanted to reference [Lynch's] 'Blue Velvet,'" Siega confirms. "Everything looks perfectly normal on the outside of this house; there's no sign there's something really bad and heavy going on inside."

At the video's climax, Papa Roach guitarist Jerry Horton, bassist Tobin Esperance and drummer David Buckner lay waste to the home's interior, while Dick experiences the aforementioned emotional meltdown in the backyard. "We really didn't do that much damage during the scene," the director asserts. "It's just how we shot it, and how we cut it together. I'm really happy with the way it turned out, but convincing everyone it would look chaotic was tough. It was like, 'Okay, we'll break this lamp first, then we'll re-set, then we'll break something else. When I put it together, it'll work – trust me.'"

A former member of the punk band Bad Trip, Siega couldn't be happier about working with Papa Roach. "They're probably the best band I've ever worked with," he declares. "I've never seen a band give as much as they do; onstage or when we do a take, it's just 100 percent every time. And as people, they're incredible. From the day I met these guys, we had a definite connection."

At the end of the "Broken Home" shoot, Dick, Horton, Esperance and Buckner showed Siega their appreciation by presenting him with an autographed guitar. "They wrote 'Everything happens for a reason, and we're so glad this has happened with you.' That was really amazing because a lot of bands don't even really stop to say thank you. They were very sincere, and that meant a lot to me."

Papa Roach's "Broken Home" video was shot by Siega for Bonfire Films of America; Bonfire principal Shirley Moyers served as producer. Having just completed a month on the road with Korn and Powerman 5000, P-Roach is now headlining clubs, with (hed)pe and Taproot supporting; their current tour will be followed by a planned outing with Eminem and Limp Bikzit. DreamWorks Records is a division of DreamWorks SKG, which was formed in October 1994 by its three principal partners – Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen – to produce live-action motion pictures; animated feature films; network, syndicated and cable television programming; home video entertainment; records; books; toys; consumer products; and interactive entertainment.