‘School of Rock’ Kids Got Smacked by Bullies, Were ‘Mentally Unwell’ and More After Film’s Release: ‘I Was Looked at Like a Complete Weirdo’
28.09.2023 - 17:32
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Zack Sharf Digital News Director Rolling Stone magazine celebrated the 20th anniversary of “School of Rock” with a new oral history in which many of the child actors from the Richard Linklater hit film opened up on the tough years they faced after the film’s blockbuster release. The Jack Black-led comedy was a box office hit in 2003 with $131 million worldwide, and it’s widely considered a bonafide comedy classic. Imagine going from Hollywood sensation back to high school or middle school teen.
That was the reality for many of the “School of Rock” cast. “It was tough. I came back to school, and I was like a three-headed freak, basically,” said Joey Gaydos Jr., who played lead guitarist Zack “Zack-Attack” Mooneyham in the film.
“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.” Veronica Afflerbach, who played the small supporting role of “groupie” Eleni, had a similar experience. “When I came home from doing the movie, I was like, ‘I’m never doing this again.’ Because kids are brutal,” she said. “My parents wanted to make an investment, so they bought me a house.
And kids said really horrible things. ‘What else did you do to make that much money? Because it’s not from just a couple lines in a movie. You’re an extra.’ But I wish that I had given myself a chance to see where else [acting] could have taken me.” “There was, I would say, about a decade of me being really, really sick and
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