He can’t deliver less than a brilliant performance, even when it’s not asked to
One of the first stops on The Super Mario Bros. press tour (sadly without Anya Taylor-Joy) was The Kelly Clarkson Show, where things didn’t go so well for Bowse – er, Jack Black. As Keegan-Michael Key, Charlie Day and “Mario” himself strutted onto the set, Kelly asks, “Where’s Jack?” As you’ll find out in the clip above, Kelly apparently loves Bowser (the character Black voiced), but he will not come out because he is the only one of them to put on his character’s costume.
It’s so obvious a bit, but black still sells treachery so well. Then seeing him jumping around in a skin-tight Bowser costume with his junk area blurred (after all, this is for a Nintendo movie) makes the performance way funnier than your average movie promotional appearance.
The Super Mario Bros. movie hits theaters on Wednesday, April 5th. This release date is two days new, having recently changed from the originally planned April 7 launch. Personally, I expect Jack Black to steal the show, but I didn’t expect him to steal the talk show.
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