When I did get the part, I watched a lot of films from that era. But I had an incredible experience, and I just trusted in Pete to lead me to the Promised Land.ĬS: Had you seen the original movie and what were your thoughts on it?īlack: I had never seen the original “King Kong” in its entirety until I went in to interview for the role, and of course, I watched it before I went in to interview. I’m more comfortable playing the guy who’s the drifter, the free plains crazy man. And that from some reason was difficult for me to imagine. And the hardest thing, the thing I had to get over in my own mind, was that he’s a leader of men.

This has got some darker elements to it and it’s a period piece, which I don’t usually do, and it’s not all about just, “Here comes that crazy Jack Black, gonna do his thing!” I had to concentrate on where this character was coming from, the time and the place in the world where he was. It was a different role than most of the ones that I’d played in the past. Luckily, it was one of the most amazing parts and incredible scripts I’ve ever read. I talked to my agent like a few months beforehand, and said, “God, I want to be in a Peter Jackson movie, can’t you make it happen? You’re a power agent.” And she was like, “Dude, everybody wants to be in a Peter Jackson movie.” And I was like, “You’re right, so let’s just forget it.” And then he called, weirdly, and asked me to come and interview for “King Kong.” And yeah, I would have come and interviewed for “Carrots on Ice” if he was directing it. That was like a kind of a secret goal of mine and it was unbelievable. Jack Black: I just wanted to party with Peter Jackson. Instead, he comes away with an experience he’ll never forget, not to mention the island’s ape-like deity Kong, which he brings back to New York to put on stage billed as the “Eighth Wonder of the World.”Ĭ spoke to Black during the recent Kongmania that hit modern-day New York City last week.ĬS: Okay, the question on everyone’s minds is probably how you hooked up with this project and why?

DeMille, who brings his crew to Skull Island to film his latest epic. When people go to see Peter Jackson’s new remake of King Kong on Wednesday, the giant ape on screen might have a bit of competition for the audience on a smaller scale from actor Jack Black, who has continued to build an army of fans despite not having a new film in well over a year.īlack plays a more dramatic part in the film, that of director Carl Denham, a cross between P.T.

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