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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: The One Role Jack Black Regrets Turing Down the Most · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: We all have decisions that we make, choices we go with,
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Speaker 2: we grow to regret, and Jack Block is sharing one
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Speaker 2: professional choice he wishes he could get a redo.
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Speaker 1: On turning down the role of Syndrome, the villain in
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Speaker 1: two thousand and four is The Incredibles, which he says
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Speaker 1: has since become one of his favorite movies of all time.
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Speaker 3: So more on that.
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Speaker 2: Jack admits his arrogance actually played a part in him
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Speaker 2: saying no, he'd never heard of Brad Bird, who wrote
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Speaker 2: it and directed it, so he thought he knew better
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Speaker 2: about the role.
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Speaker 4: He told Capital f M.
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Speaker 1: He point blank told Brad Syndrome was a one dimensional
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Speaker 1: character and he needed to rewrite it, so.
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Speaker 2: Brad graciously declined and hired Jason Lee instead. Jack eventually
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Speaker 2: saw the Oscar winning The Incredibles and was like, oh
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Speaker 2: my gosh.
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Speaker 3: He learned a very valuable lesson, he said.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and Brad Bird he went on to direct your
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Speaker 4: favorite Ratatui winning another Oscar, along with Mission Impossible, Ghost
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Speaker 4: Protocol Hits After Hits.
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Speaker 3: Anyway, Jack's latest conduct on VOD That's Direct from Hollywood