Every time I watch SOR I marvel at Jack Black's performance as Dewey. I know that he and Mike White were friends and White wrote the part with Black in mind, but if that wasn't the case who else could have possibly pulled it off? Who could have been as funny, loathsome, lovable, musical and crazy like Black? I am drawing a complete blank on this one...
shareNo one else could've done it, because the character (and film as a whole) was literally custom-made for Black. Every line, every scene, every piece of punctuation in the script was designed with Black's very unique comedic persona in mind.
So if any other actor did it, they'd just be doing a Jack Black impression.
Russell Brand
"I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.
I do not think that they will sing to me."
Jason Lee.
sharePhilip Seymour Hoffman played a similar role in Almost Famous. He could play a good Dewey.
shareDave Hill - he is definitely the only person who could do this justice IMO
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I doubt if anyone else could have. The character was written with particularly Jack Black in mind. Plus he had to be a good singer.
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