Jack Harlow may have his first main movie position within the upcoming movie White Men Can’t Jump, a remake of the 1992 film of the identical title.
While Jack Harlow is primarily identified for his rap profession, he is lately taken the dive into performing and has been solid within the White Men Can’t Jump remake in his first main movie position. It might seem to be an odd alternative, however director Calmatic has revealed that Harlow was the right decide whereas interviewing with Collider:
“It was a second the place we have been actually having a tough time determining who we have been gonna exit to for this position, and earlier than we even had a giant checklist of names, somebody simply introduced up the title Jack Harlow. I feel it was one of many interns. They simply mentioned, ‘How about Jack Harlow?’ And it was a type of moments the place everybody simply froze for a second and regarded across the room like, ‘Oh, shit, it may be him.’ And so, we introduced him in to audition, and we put him by way of the ringer. We have been there for a couple of hours, and he killed it, man. To everybody’s shock, he did an amazing job. He positively locked in.”
Harlow beforehand mentioned he labored exhausting to get the position, making an attempt to be “egoless” and never letting his fame as a rapper earn him the position. Woody Harrelson performed an identical position within the unique 1992 White Men Can’t Jump, though the remake may have a special story whereas nonetheless maintaining the spirit of the basic movie.
White Men Can’t Jump Director Also Made House Party, Releasing Tomorrow
Calmatic is primarily identified for guiding music movies and commercials however has lately began engaged on feature-length movies, together with House Party, which releases tomorrow. It’s one other fashionable remake of a basic 90s movie of the identical title and stars Jacob Latimore and Allen Maldonado, together with a number of celebrities, similar to Snoop Dogg, starring as himself.
The director had additionally revealed that Jack Harlow brings completely different energies to the live performance stage and the film set, saying it was nearly troublesome to acknowledge Harlow whereas he watched him tour:
“He turned it up even more on set and was way beyond our expectations of an actor and a performer. It was weird because, after we got through filming, he went on tour and I would see him on stage in front of thousands of people and be like, ‘Who’s that person? Because for the last 60 days, I’ve known this person who is just very focused, but also cool to hang around. I can’t believe that that person is also one of the biggest rappers in the world right now.’ I think that combination of his stardom plus his charm on camera is gonna be the sky’s the limit for him, when it comes to acting.”
This is not the primary time a rapper has turned to performing, as Will Smith, Ice T, Ludacris, Childish Gambino, and Ice Cube have all launched profitable performing careers after initially gaining fame from their rap careers.
White Men Can’t Jump releases in 2023, distributed by Hulu. It stars Sinqua Walls and Jack Harlow, with a script written by Kenya Barris and Doug Hall.