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“I hoped that maybe it would get me noticed enough to get an agent, and maybe that would lead to me being able to one day make a movie with a real budget.” “I only hoped it would be a steppingstone for me,” he says. Hess, who co-wrote the film with his wife, Jerusha, insists that he never expected anyone to see the movie. Made for just $100,000, which was raised from family and friends, the film was the hit of the Sundance Film Festival and went on to make $45 million at the domestic box office, and countless millions more through DVD sales and rentals. It’s a moment for “Napoleon Dynamite” fans to cherish, and there are plenty of fans. “Oh, wow,” Hess says in a distinctive nasal tone as the raw fish is wheeled into his room. In fact, his voice sounds strikingly familiar, although actor Jon Heder played Napoleon in the movie. The 26-year-old Hess makes no secret of his emotional and even physical ties to the title character he created in “Napoleon Dynamite.” “Nacho Libre,” which opens today, stars Jack Black as a cook in a Mexican monastery who starts wrestling professionally under an alias to raise money for orphans. His inspiration and alter ego is Jared Hess, who wrote and directed “Napoleon Dynamite” and is about to unleash his second film, the ode to Mexican wrestling called “Nacho Libre,” on an unsuspecting public. You’re thinking that Napoleon Dynamite is a fictional character. It’s hard to imagine the unsophisticated, painfully awkward and frizzy-haired hero of the quirky 2004 cult hit sitting in a plush suite at the Four Seasons munching on expensive sushi rolls.

In walks a tuxedoed room service waiter pushing a cart filled with sushi. The funny part comes with a knock at the door.

Picture Napoleon Dynamite in a luxury suite at the Four Seasons hotel in Los Angeles.
