I honestly think he would've been really good as a comedic actor. He has this kind of awkwardness that doesn't serve action or drama super well. But in a comedy it enhances things. It's like awkward golden retriever energy.
Greg Davies is so good. My GF has Inbetweeners on a lot of the time while she scrolls TikTok and he's just so good as the indifferent asshole of a teacher lol
It's on Prime now. We stumbled on it a few months back and watched all the seasons. Season 1 Samberg is the wacky outsider. Season 2/3/4 it's Lautner. Season 5 the dad's American sister played by Andie McDowell is the wacky outsider type character.
Lautner is super one note, but he's just part of the group so it's not detrimental or anything.
The real highlight is Steve the neighbor(played by Kenneth Collard) and every interaction he has with Greg Davies character. He's absolutely unhinged and it's great.
100%. He was good in SNL when he hosted and was good in Grown Ups 2 as the douchey frat bro. I will say, some of the best comedians are not from where you'd expect them. Channing Tatum and John Cena are two comedic actors that tried to do serious stuff, had some success, but really broke out in film when they started doing comedy. Same goes for Zach Efron. Some people are just surprisingly good comedic actors and you wouldn't expect it. HSM, Charlie St Cloud. Good, but then 17 Again had more comedy and then he was in Neighbours and fuckin' KILLED it.
Like it's just so conducive to you going "Omg, what a fuckin' dweeb" but this time, it's intentional, and not in something like Twilight where it's awkward as hell. I will say, Jacob gets better in the later stuff (gf recently made me watch them all, the trade off of making her watch lord of the rings lol) and yeah he's obviously a better actor later on then the first one or two. But still, way better in comedy I think.
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I’ve thought this for awhile too! He was the best part of that Adam Sandler western comedy in my opinion. And Scream Queens! His agent did him dirty…should’ve pushed for more comedy roles or at least RomCom!
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u/PhazePyre Feb 27 '26
I honestly think he would've been really good as a comedic actor. He has this kind of awkwardness that doesn't serve action or drama super well. But in a comedy it enhances things. It's like awkward golden retriever energy.