Jack Black Character Analysis
Jack Black Plays a Dark R.L. Stine in 'Goosebumps' the Movie (INTERVIEW)
Werewolves, mummies, an evil clown, and monsters -- oh my! R.L. Stine's 'Goosebumps' goes from young adult horror novels to the big screen.Starring Jack Black as a fictional version of Stine — one of the bestselling children's authors in history — Goosebumps gives Black a chance to amuse a younger audience like he did in 2003's School of Rock.
"I am no stranger to entertaining kids," Black, who is also heard but not seen as Po in the Kung Fu Panda films, tells Bio. "I have been doing that for almost a decade now. I think it is just because I have a lot of childish qualities myself. I am still a big man-child so I relate to what kids think is funny."
What was a change of pace, according to Black, who most recently starred in the R-rated The D Train, was the fact that he wasn't playing a lovable character — a "squishy, loser hero" — but rather a dark, brooding genius.
In order to capture the genius that is the faux Stine, Black, who admits he is no Daniel Day-Lewis, turned to another on-screen genius for inspiration: Orson Welles.
"I wanted to give [my Stine] a little extra gravitas," says Black. "I couldn't just be good, old Jables playing the genius writer, so I wanted to do someone who was considered a genius and maybe had a dark secret. It …show more content…
Also, the survival of the human species when I think of the inevitable death of every human being. It would be sweet if we could live all the way to infinity, but we are going to have to build a Death Star because the sun, at some point, is going to engulf the planet. That is probably not for a billion years. We'd be lucky if we make it that long. We need to build about a million Death Stars and spread them all over the galaxy. I will leave it at
Werewolves, mummies, an evil clown, and monsters -- oh my! R.L. Stine's 'Goosebumps' goes from young adult horror novels to the big screen.Starring Jack Black as a fictional version of Stine — one of the bestselling children's authors in history — Goosebumps gives Black a chance to amuse a younger audience like he did in 2003's School of Rock.
"I am no stranger to entertaining kids," Black, who is also heard but not seen as Po in the Kung Fu Panda films, tells Bio. "I have been doing that for almost a decade now. I think it is just because I have a lot of childish qualities myself. I am still a big man-child so I relate to what kids think is funny."
What was a change of pace, according to Black, who most recently starred in the R-rated The D Train, was the fact that he wasn't playing a lovable character — a "squishy, loser hero" — but rather a dark, brooding genius.
In order to capture the genius that is the faux Stine, Black, who admits he is no Daniel Day-Lewis, turned to another on-screen genius for inspiration: Orson Welles.
"I wanted to give [my Stine] a little extra gravitas," says Black. "I couldn't just be good, old Jables playing the genius writer, so I wanted to do someone who was considered a genius and maybe had a dark secret. It …show more content…
Also, the survival of the human species when I think of the inevitable death of every human being. It would be sweet if we could live all the way to infinity, but we are going to have to build a Death Star because the sun, at some point, is going to engulf the planet. That is probably not for a billion years. We'd be lucky if we make it that long. We need to build about a million Death Stars and spread them all over the galaxy. I will leave it at