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WORDS: RICHARD CLUNE.

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Let’s be honest here – it’s a good stoner

flick, right?

ACTUALLY, IT IS A MOVIE THAT

I THINK I’D LIKE TO WATCH HIGH.

[finish the sentence] I think Australian women

are... LOTS OF FUN.

Go-to hangover cure?

A GOOD CUP OF COFFEE, SOME

IBUPROFEN AND A STEAM.

[finish this sentence] The most annoying thing

in the world to me at the moment is...

VIOLENCE IN THE WORLD.

IT NEEDS TO STOP.

THE ONE-TIME BOY-BAND

CROONER TURNED SOLO ARTIST

AND ACTOR TALKS NEW FILM,

JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE

JUNGLE, WRESTLING DWAYNE

JOHNSON AND GETTING HIGH.

NICK

JONAS

WITH

Describe your new solo album in five words:

YOU. NEED. TO. BUY. IT.

Do you still feel you’re trying to outrun your

boy band history?

I’M NOT TRYING TO RUN FROM

ANYTHING - IT WAS A GREAT TIME

IN MY LIFE SO I’M GLAD I STILL

HAVE FANS FROM THAT ERA.

Who’d win in a scrap between the Jonas

boys and Hanson?

I’M GONNA SAY THE JONAS BOYS.

Joe used to play tambourine in the Jonas

Brothers – did that make you jealous?

THAT’S ACTUALLY WHAT THE SONG

‘JEALOUS’ IS ABOUT.

Are you an actor-muso or muso-actor?

PROBABLY MUSO-ACTOR, BUT IT

SEEMS TO BE SWINGING THE OTHER

WAY SOMETIMES NOW, WHERE I’M

DOING MORE ACTING.

Did Steven Seagal crush the legitimacy of actor-

musicians with the release of his debut album?

WELL, I DIDN’T KNOW HE HAD

ONE, SO APPARENTLY NOT.

The last book you read?

THE FIRST PHONE CALL FROM

HEAVEN BY MITCH ALBOM.

You played yourself in the 2011 documentary

Jonas Brothers: The Journey. How’d you prepare

for the role?

IT TOOK ME A COUPLE YEARS BUT

I THINK AFTER PUBERTY IT

BECAME PRETTY SIMPLE.

California’s legalisation of weed – for or against?

FOR. ALL THE WAY.

One thing you wish you were better at?

NOT OVERTHINKING THINGS.

JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE

IS IN CINEMAS DECEMBER 26

Full name, and where are you originally from?

NICHOLAS JERRY JONAS, TEXAS.

At school I was [choose one]

A Nerd

Absent

Popular

Describe your personality in three words:

DRIVEN, CARING, FUN.

Nickname and why?

PEOPLE JUST CALL ME

NICK J OR NJ. SIMPLE.

Biggest fear in life?

I HAVE A FEAR OF FLYING,

WHICHIS VERY UNFORTUNATE

BECAUSE I DO IT ALL THE TIME.

Two things Americans do better than Aussies?

BEER AND BBQ!

Describe fame in three words?

CHALLENGING, EXHILARATING,

SHALLOW.

You’re in the new Jumanji film with Kevin Hart

and Rhys Darby. Whose voice is more annoying?

HA – IT’S PROBABLY AN EQUAL

LEVEL OF ANNOYANCE.

Dwayne Johnson’s also in it – did he teach you

that trademark cocked eyebrow thing?

NO HE DIDN’T – HE KEEPS

THAT TO HIMSELF!

You’d obviously beat him in an arm wrestle?

OF COURSE. NO DOUBT ABOUT IT.

‘Welcome to the Jungle’ – great Guns N’ Roses

track. Your fave?

‘SWEET CHILD O’ MINE’.

Were you scared the first time you watched the

original Jumanji?

I WAS SCARED BUT I LOVED THE

MOVIE AND I THOUGHT THAT ROBIN

WILLIAMS WAS INCREDIBLE.

THE LAST WORD

MEN OF THE YEAR

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