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Jack Black ‘was in Jumanji’ before he was in Jumanji

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Updated 13:46 25 Mar 2023 GMTPublished 13:45 25 Mar 2023 GMT

Jack Black ‘was in Jumanji’ before he was in Jumanji

Jack Black's first acting role was in something eerily similar to the Jumanji movies

Joe Harker

Joe Harker

People are discovering Jack Black's first acting job and realising that it was incredibly similar to the part he'd play in the Jumanji movies right down to the hat.

It would be difficult for you to have spent time enough on the internet to be reading this and not know who Jack Black is.

The actor and musician is a rock star and School of Rock star, he'll be playing big baddie Bowser in the upcoming Super Mario Bros. Movie and audiences packed out the cinemas to watch him in Jumanji.

While there's some jobs in his career he says he's forgotten it would surely be difficult to forget your first ever acting job, and for Black that would be doubly difficult since it's so darn similar to his part in the Jumanji movies.

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Fans of the actor have discovered his first ever acting gig, a part in an advert he did when he was 13 years old, and they've noticed how similar it is.

A young Jack Black in his first ever acting role, it wouldn't be the last time he'd wear that hat.
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Back in 1982 a teenage Black got his first acting role in a TV advert for a video game called Pitfall! and it was all about a guy making his way through the jungle while avoiding plenty of dangers, which is basically what Black's character does in the Jumanji movies.

People have been absolutely loving this weird connection through his career, declaring that 'Jack Black was in Jumanji before he was in Jumanji'.

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Someone else said 'his body was built specifically for a pith helmet', noting that the hat a teenage Black wore in the advert was basically the same as the one he had for the Jumanji movies.

Others found it a bit weird to see Black as a kid, with one person commenting 'it never occurred to me that Jack Black was ever a child', and we can kind of understand what they mean.

Another commented that even as a teenager he was doing the 'Jack Black mannerisms even at a young age'.

Some of the biggest fans of this link in Black's acting career are the cast of Jumanji themselves, as ahead of Jumanji: The Next Level, Black, Dwayne Johnson and Nick Jonas teamed up to recreate the Pitfall! advert.

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As for Pitfall!, getting future megastar Jack Black into your commercial must be a good idea since it went on to enjoy incredible success with millions of copies sold.

It managed to handily outperform the much-hyped but notoriously terrible E.T. video game which is credited with helping crash the video game industry.

Featured Image Credit: Activision / Album / Alamy Stock Photo

Topics: Celebrity, Film and TV, Gaming

Joe Harker
Joe Harker

Joe graduated from the University of Salford with a degree in Journalism and worked for Reach before joining the LADbible Group. When not writing he enjoys the nerdier things in life like painting wargaming miniatures and chatting with other nerds on the internet. He's also spent a few years coaching fencing. Contact him via [email protected]

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