Jack Black has admitted that he told a little white lie in order to win the lead role in Gullier's Travels.
The actor to the casting agent that he ride a horse when auditioning for the role, the movie is due out this Christmas, despite not being able to ride at all.
Speaking to ContactMusic the actor said: "I might have bent the truth with regards to my skills. I think one time I said that I was an avid horseback rider, which wasn't true.
"I didn't get the part and it's probably good that I didn't. My strategy would have been: Hold on tight, and, er, that's it.
"No, I probably would have had a crash course in horse riding at the last second."
And Black reveals that he was immediately drawn to the project when he was approached with the script.
"When I was first approached about it, I was like, 'Yeah!' It just made sense. A bell went off in my head that this would be the kind of fun project I was looking for, something fantastical, adventurous, exciting and funny."
Gulliver's Travels is the first movie for the actor since Year One back in 2009 but he has already completed work on The Big Year and Kung Fu Panda 2.
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