{"id":2223487,"date":"2026-01-05T22:18:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T22:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2223487"},"modified":"2026-01-05T22:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T22:18:08","slug":"jack-black-regrets-turning-down-the-incredibles-rejected-offer-to-voice-syndrome-after-asking-the-director-for-rewrites-why-was-i-being-so-difficult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jack-black-regrets-turning-down-the-incredibles-rejected-offer-to-voice-syndrome-after-asking-the-director-for-rewrites-why-was-i-being-so-difficult\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack Black Regrets Turning Down \u2018The Incredibles\u2019; Rejected Offer to Voice Syndrome After Asking the Director for Rewrites: \u2018Why Was I Being So Difficult?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jack Black<\/a> revealed during a Capital FM interview that turning down Pixar<\/a>\u2019s \u201cThe Incredibles<\/a>\u201d is the biggest regret of his acting career. The comedian was offered the chance to voice the movie\u2019s villain role, Syndrome, but passed because he had never heard of director Brad Bird<\/a> (his only previous credit at the time was 1999\u2019s \u201cThe Iron Giant<\/a>\u201d) and wanted script rewrites. Black now counts \u201cThe Incredibles<\/a>\u201d among his favorite movies.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was offered, and I do regret it, saying no\u2026 I was offered Syndrome<\/a> in that fantastic movie \u2018The Incredibles\u2019 \u2014 one of my favorites of all time, by the way,\u201d Black said. \u201cAnd I said no because I was like, \u2018Uhhh, [director] Brad Bird? Never heard of him!\u2019 [I said to him], \u2018This character that you\u2019re offering me is like a villain, but he\u2019s kinda one-dimensional. I\u2019m interested but I\u2019d like to see a rewrite. Will you add some dimensions to this character?…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jack Black revealed during a Capital FM interview that turning down Pixar\u2019s \u201cThe Incredibles\u201d is the biggest regret of his acting career. The comedian was offered the chance to voice the movie\u2019s villain role, Syndrome, but passed because he had never heard of director Brad Bird (his only previous credit at the time was 1999\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2223488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2223487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Jack-Black-Regrets-Turning-Down-\u2018The-Incredibles-Rejected-Offer-to.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2223487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2223489,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2223487\/revisions\/2223489"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2223488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2223487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2223487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2223487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}