Jack Black Is Totally Playing Satan In A Wild Holiday Movie, And The Directors Explain Why He’s The ‘Perfect Guy’ For The Role
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Jack Black Is Totally Playing Satan In A Wild Holiday Movie, And The Directors Explain Why He’s The ‘Perfect Guy’ For The Role



Jack Black isn’t for the faint of heart. He’s funny and outlandish, and not afraid to show it on screen, and it does make some of Black’s best movies even better. As he’s continued in Hollywood, including being a part of the 2024 movie release schedule, he’s had plenty of roles across genres and has proven himself in all of them. So when the opportunity arose to play Satan in a Christmas comedy movie he leaped at the chance, especially with the Farrelly brothers at the helm.

Yes, that’s the Peter and Bobby Farrelly, who made some of the best comedies of the ’90s, the height arguably being Dumb and Dumber. The two had been on a brief hiatus from working on projects together throughout the mid-2000s and 2010s for personal reasons. Their first reunion in over a decade has brought a long-standing script to life, and when talking with EW, they shared why the Nacho Libre actor was the perfect pick. They said of Black and the responsibility of making a funny Christmas movie:

Jack is just that guy that with his arching eyebrows and his faces and all that, there’s a little bit of mischievous to him at all times, but he’s eminently likable, and that’s just Jack. We never wanted to make it a horror movie or something like that. We wanted it to be comical. So it was a delicate ball of playing this iconic character but doing it in a way that the audience can have some fun with it. And Jack was the perfect guy.



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