So The School of Rock Kids Went Through Some Shit...
"School of Rock" kids faced bullies after the film's release.
Joey Gaydos Jr. (Zack) says he was made to feel like "a three-headed freak" at school: "Some older girl [came up and smacked] me in the face because 'Look at that weird guy from the movie.'"https://t.co/Qt4N0akBti
- Zack Sharf (@ZSharf) September 28, 2023
- Joey Gaydos Jr aka Zack Attack: “I came back with all this culture in my brain to a pretty one-horse town outside of Detroit. And I was looked at like a complete weirdo, and that was hard. I remember going to a football game in high school, and some older girl coming up and smacking me in the face because, ‘Look at that weird guy from the movie,'” he added. “People thought I had it all going on. I couldn’t believe it.”
- Rivkah Reyes aka Posh Spice:
“There was, I would say, about a decade of me being really, really sick and really, really mentally unwell and using anything I could to feel nothing, basically. But the last five years, I’ve been sober and re-navigating the film industry and comedy and writing and all of it. It’s just so much easier when there’s not all that extra stuff in the way of me, my actual self.”
- Richard Linklater outted Billy aka Fancy Pants (Brian Falduto) to his parents:
“I remember [producer Scott Rudin] liking the idea of having one of the kids be effeminate,” Richard Linklater said. “I was like, ‘That’s pretty radical.’ Even casting Brian and talking to his parents, I was like, ‘I don’t know if you guys know yet, but young Brian is gay.’ They were cool with it. It just seemed very real.”
Linklater was “not going to make some kid play gay” and instead made it a priority find a child actor who matched Billy’s personality so it would all be nature.
I only posted 3, but there's more at the source. RIP Kevin Clark 💔
SOURCE Variety on Twitter