Jack Black

If we ask the readers, it is almost certain that most of them would like or would have liked to receive classes from a teacher like Jack Black: funny, hooligan and a bit of a cheat. Almost like one more student, come on. Although, without a doubt, the most amazing thing would have been to practice rock & roll instead of learning derivatives, matrix integrals and other theoretical operations (I was never good at math, can you tell I hate it?). The fact is that with his role as Dewey Finn in the more than nice School of rock, this plump, short and quite cheeky actor has achieved his greatest success so far, and that it was a movie for kids, which significantly increases the merit of its protagonist. In fact, he knew that danger and put a stop to it: “I was a little worried about working with children. He wanted to make sure that we weren’t going to tiptoe into a topic that would normally be funny, or that we were going to do it in a corny way.” And, seen what has been seen, he took the cat into the water.

Jack Black is a peculiar guy, a lover of the mythical group AC/DC, and who doesn’t mind looking ridiculous if it’s to make others laugh. But his showmanship goes beyond cinema. In fact, he is the founder of a musical group and he himself has defined himself more than once as a singer who acted to earn a living. Born in Santa Monica on August 28, 1969, Jack attended a Hebrew school and at the young age of 13 demonstrated his acting skills in a commercial. After finishing primary school, he went to the University of Los Angeles to study theater. Although he never graduated, he became part of Tim Robbins ‘ theater group., who would later act as godfather in his film career. But it was also in the world of tables where he met his musical better half, a guy as crazy as he was, named Kyle Glass, and with whom he formed the rock band Tenacious D, currently in top form. And to my faith, when listening to some of the group’s compositions, one is surprised by the vocal talent of this great little actor.

As has been said, it was the recent winner of the secondary Oscar for Mystic River , Tim Robbins, who offered Jack Black his first role for the cinema. He was in the movie Citizen Bob Roberts (1992). Little by little he was making his first steps and appeared during the 90s in notable films, although always with very secondary roles. He repeated with Robbins in Death Penalty (1995), he emulated Jim Carrey in A Crazy Man at Home (1996), and among other films he had brief appearances in the thrillers Fanatic (1996), Jackal (1997), where he had a hard time in front of Bruce Willis , or inI Still Know What You Did Last Summer and Public Enemy , both from 1999. He also returned to have a presence in what is Tim Robbins’s last film as director so far: Down the Curtain (1999).

But when the name of Jack Black has become popular, it has been in the last four years. Fame came with High Fidelity (2000), a magnificent independent product, in which Black played an insolent and talkative music fanatic and in which he even had a stellar appearance on stage singing the song “Lets Get It On” ( who, by the way, left mouths to his co-star John Cusak). After this takeoff, for which he received more than one international award, he stabilized his fame by falling in love with a fat Gwyneth Paltrow in Blind Love (2001), a very naughty comedy by the Farrelly brothers. Then after other lesser-known works, such as Orange County (2002), he has returned to success with the aforementionedSchool of rock , very well received by the public. He has the comedy Envy , by Barry Levinson , about to premiere , but without a doubt what is most expected of him is his important role in the version of King Kong that Peter Jackson is going to shoot soon . The likeable Jack Black has a bright future, who is proud to say of himself: “I am a perfect clown. Entertaining is my thing, and I have a whole arsenal of entertainment at my disposal.”