Watch Jack Black Become Jan Lewan in the Trailer for Netflix’s The Polka King
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Jack Black is coming to Netflix, and he’s coming to perform polka.
In the first trailer for Netflix’s The Polka King, we get our first glimpse of Black as disgraced polka star Jan Lewan, a figure as complicated as he is outlandish. See, Lewan was something of a polka sensation back in the ‘90s, when things like that were still allowed to happen. He spread like wildfire through the Slavic-American communities in Pennsylvania, becoming a kind of rock god for old white people. Originally trained as an opera singer in Poland, Lewan had never heard of polka when he first came to America. Once he adapted to this “American dance craze,” as he put it, the result was a smash hit.