Jack White and Pal John C. Reilly Team Up for New Music Video

Jack White and John C. Reilly have known each other for quite some time, and now they have collaborated for a second time in their careers.

 

Vulutre shares that “Reilly and White have been friends for decades, after the duo met backstage at a White Stripes gig — Reilly caught wind that the band was covering “Mister Cellophane,” the actor’s showstopper from Chicago, as an encore, and he wanted to witness the cover for himself. “We met and discovered we had all this stuff in common,” he says now. “We’re both from the Midwest. We’re both from big, Irish Catholic families. We’ve stayed friends after all these years. Whenever he comes to town, I go see him, and we’re thick as thieves.” Humor was a shared value…”

 

Reilly later enlisted White to play Elvis Presley for a cameo in his film ‘Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story’ from 2007. Fast forward to 2025, Reilly was jamming to Jack’s newest album ‘No Name,’ and deserves the credit for talking White into making a music video for “Archbishop Harold Holmes.”

 

Vulture quotes John:

 

“I kept saying, ‘Jack, we should do a video. You should direct it.’ Jack had been interested in directing in the past. So I said, ‘I’ll be the preacher, or you be the preacher and I’ll direct it.’ We kept passing the idea around,” he says. “And Jack told me, ‘When I’m on tour, it takes up all my time. Then when I’m off tour, it’s a big drain to have to micromanage a video shoot.’ He was feeling demoralized that not many people are into making videos anymore.”

 

 

After getting the collaborators on board and the song charting on the radio, White finally consented to the video being made, and the rest is history.

 

 

WATCH THE VIDEO HERE:

 

 

 

Reilly recently released an album of his own called ‘What’s Not to Love?’ under the alias Mister Romantic this year, and in his interview, he teased that he had a new project coming up with Jack White. Now we know what that was!

 

To close out, in his Stereogum interview ‘We’ve Got A File On You: John C. Reilly,’ he expressed his love and admiration for Jack as an artist:

 

“The reason I asked him to be Elvis is I feel Jack is the last rockstar, in a way. When you see him in concert it’s like seeing Jimi Hendrix or something. There’s just not many people that can do that. I felt if anyone was anywhere near Elvis these days, it’s Jack White.”