“Jack was so cool with us,” Brown gushed. The script is specific and unrelentingly funny, and Jack Black has yet to be quite as composed, even when he’s whirling like a Tasmanian devil with his Fender in hand, thanks to his remarkable, grounded chemistry with the cast.
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But it’s also a movie for jaded adults who’ve forgotten what it’s like to believe accomplishing your dreams is possible-the script’s could-be cutesy message sanding down the edges of its riskier jokes and central, sad-sack protagonist. It’s a family movie, technically speaking, with a central lesson that cheerily asks young viewers to follow their hearts and be kind, Disney Channel style. One of Linklater’s few studio movies, School of Rock easily could have gone the way of schmaltz and mainstream mechanics, but instead became a crucial music classic that ever so slightly defies expectations at every turn. It’s unconventional, to say the least, that a seasoned filmmaker like Richard Linklater would take pointers from tweens, but there’s little about School of Rock that you could call typical. And when Aleisha Allen, aka “Brace Face,” heard her character’s name was scripted as “Sharon,” she took matters into her own hands: “I took it upon myself, I was like, ‘I don’t really think I look like a Sharon,' Just casually to Rick… So I suggested Alicia.” It stuck.
School of Rock was always about the music.ĭuring the casting process, Linklater and writer Mike White would modify parts based on his cast’s strength so when Brian Falduto showed up to the audition to sing a soprano rendition of “Send in the Clowns,” modify they did: into the instantly iconic Billy who would make “You’re tacky and I hate you” a catchy rallying cry of the aughts. In each of the recollections of the movie’s now grown-up cast, conspicuously missing are the stories of desperately reading sides, and turning up to stressful, high stakes auditions. Kevin Clark, the smart-mouthed spiky-haired drummer, recalls hitting up a blind audition where he met his co-star Joey Gaydos Jr., who would play the band’s soft-spoken lead guitarist, nabbing the role after the casting director watched the pair effortlessly jam together. I became an actor because of School of Rock,” Becca Brown-who you best know as “Posh Spice,” School of Rock’s bassist-tells me over the phone. But the child stars of School of Rock, many of whom list the rock pseudo-musical as their first and only movie credit, were more than just child stars-they were, however briefly, rock icons. The phrase “child star” is loaded to say the least-conjuring up images of caffeinated stage parents and potentially drug addled futures as much as it implies fame and success.
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