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 Jack Black
Interview By: Zak Santucci
When people wanted the famous Jack Black to play the egocentric Carl Denham, “they were talking about Orson Welles as a model, in that he was young and cocky; some of the elements of his character.” Black sarcastically adds, “Yeah, and he was a genius.”
This is the type of free thinking Black’s been known to exude and always follow… he tends to go against the grain. He mentions of Welles, “So yea, I focused in on the hubris and the drive. Yeah, he (Carl Denham) has all the ambition, and not all the talent, unlike
Orson who can back it up. I watched a lot of Orson Welles films. There’s definitely a lot of him in the performance, but a lot of other people too. There’s a producer who shall rename nameless. Some different power moguls.” A reporter makes a hint that it’s a
couple of well-known producer, and Black retorts with: “It’s neither of those, it’s more of a “w” producer… alright it’s Weinstein, but I’m not telling you which one!”
Jack Black wasn’t at the top of his form during this interview, he kept mentioning how tired and out of it he was, but he still managed to deliver the funny. He stayed pretty low on the jokes about how awesome he is (the Tenacious D approach) and stayed a bit more
situational, making sure to point out when he was not telling the truth for comedic purposes. “I told Peter (Jackson), ‘I’ll do your film, but if you don’t cast Colin Hanks, then I walk.’” He then mentioned he was kidding, but brought up that the duo of Colin and Black in Orange County kicked the asses of the Adrien Brody / Thomas Kretschmann duo that’s also in King Kong but were in The Pianist together the same year Orange County came out.
Concerning the inherent differences of being in such a special effects laden film, our good friend didn’t have too much trouble acting with a blue screen. However, he pointed out not having really done an action film before besides being an extra in Demolition Man. Of getting in shape for action, Black notes, A movie like this makes you run
as fast as you can, scream as loud as you can, and do a lot of things to the extreme limits…
“I became quite an athlete in preparation. I went down to UCLA and there was this green field there where nobody goes, and since I’m an alumni I feel like I can do whatever I want, so I’d go there and run around pretending to be chased by gorillas or 7 foot
cockroaches. That was my preparation physically and for acting. I’m gonna start a class, an actor’s studio called ‘running around in a green field’. It’s the Jables method. I did yoga.” He later pointed out that all this was true, except ...
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