Jack Black: In His Case, Maybe it is a Matter of Rocket Science
Jack Black: In His Case, Maybe it is a Matter of Rocket Science by Roxanne McDonald
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“I really wish that we had secret headquarters where there was a batcave in the Hollywood Hills mountain, like inside the Hollywood sign, where we would drive in and talk about domination of world comedy. We’d have superpowers and drive out in our super-comedy mobiles. But it doesn’t exist.” Jack Black, on the subject of the Frat Pack, quoted in Sports Illustrated and on The Frat Pack Tribute |
What? That’s the look on any one of Jack Black’s character’s face. It’s not the “What?� of the gypsy thug in his “take a picture it lasts longer� mode. It’s not the “Wha?� of a Vinnie Barbarino. It’s more of a combined self-effacing and scampish “What? What did I do?� look.
Maybe he always had the look and just uses it to enhance his funny. Maybe he cultivated it hanging with (as a member of) the Frat Pack–with Steve Carell, Will Ferrell, Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn, Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson—or working his comic-rock shtick with the other half of Tenacio D, Kyle Gass. Maybe he learned it growing up in a household (for the first ten years of his life, anyway) with rocket scientists for parents. After all, it does take some smarts to deliver quality comedy.