11 Amazing Times Actors Played Other Actors Playing Characters
2. Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle
The Players: Jack Black playing Madison Iseman playing Bethany Walker playing as Prof. Sheldon “Shelly” Oberon
Mode Of Body Swap: Enchanted and/or cursed video game
Even though all four protagonists in the recent Jumanji are body swaps, Jack Black as a basic AF teen girl eclipses the rest of them. The initial scene where his character realizes that “Shelly” is short for Sheldon, and she is now an overweight middle-aged man is classic Jack Black slapstick.
But it’s in the quieter, conversational scenes of the movie when he’s at his best just being a normal, albeit self-centered, teenager. It would have been easy for him to be in full-blown “Can’t Even” mode through the whole movie, but his ablitity to hold back a little is what makes it so funny.
To prepare for the role, Jack Black asked actress Bethany Iseman, who plays the IRL version of him/her in the movie, to give him a list of her favorite shows and music so he could study up on and get into the mindset. Can we get a behind-the-scenes documentary of Jack Black watching and reacting to whatever is on that list?