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Thomas Jacob Black (born August 28, 1969) is an American actor, comedian, and musician. He is known for his roles in family and comedy films and his voice work in animated films. His awards include a Children's and Family Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, and three Golden Globe Award nominations. After portraying supporting roles in films including Dead Man Walking (1995), The Cable Guy (1996), Mars Attacks! (1996), and Enemy of the State (1998), Black had his breakout role in the musical film High Fidelity (2000). This led to larger roles in films like Shallow Hal (2001) and Orange County (2002) before he solidified his leading-man status with his starring role in School of Rock (2003). Black has since starred in King Kong (2005), The Holiday (2006), Nacho Libre (2006), Tropic Thunder (2008), Bernie (2011), Goosebumps (2016), Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017), its sequel Jumanji: The Next Level (2019), The House with a Clock in Its Walls (2018) and A Minecraft Movie (2025). He has also voiced Po in the Kung Fu Panda franchise (2008–present) and Bowser in The Super Mario Bros. Movie franchise (2023-present). Black is the lead vocalist of the duo Tenacious D, which he formed in 1994 with long-time friend Kyle Gass. In 2015, they won the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance for "The Last in Line." Since 2018, Black has run a YouTube channel called Jablinski Games. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jack Black, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
In the prologue, as told through stain-glass windows, a selfish French princess is visited by an old beggar man who offers to give her a rose if she provides him with shelter, but the princess refused on account of his hideous appearance and also blows him off again when he warns her not to judge people by looks. The man is revealed to be a magical sorcerer who curses the princess by turning her into a hideous-looking beasty and also curses her castle and its inhabitants. The rose is revealed to be enchanted and it will bloom until her 21st birthday and wilt away, which will cement the transformation unless the Beasty finds some man to love and earn his love in return. A decade later, in a small town, a handsome bookworm boy named Beau is seen as strange by the townsfolks. The popular town hunteress, Gastonia lusts after him, but Beau tries to avoid her because of her arrogance. Beau's mom, Mauricia is also an outcast among the townsfolk due to her erratic inventions.
