James T. O'Skanlon is the secondary antagonist of the 2008 comedy film You Don't Mess With the Zohan. He is a terrorist-for-hire who works for Grant Walbridge in order to get rid of the Israelis and Palestinians at the Lower Manhattan area.
He is portrayed by musician Dave Matthews.
Biography[]
James first appeared when Grant Walbridge hires him and his group of white supremacists to dress up as pseudo-Middle Eastern people while burning down buildings to frame the actual Middle Easterners themselves for terrorism. The expected conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians during that scene worked for a while, up until Zohan made a peace treaty between the ethnic groups primarily by burying the hatchet with Phantom. Later, after their conflict ended, the foreigners found out that Grant Walbridge set up the whole fake pseudo-Middle Eastern attacks. They also correctly believed that Walbridge was the root cause of their earlier conflict in the first place.
James later gets out with a time bomb and a cage of puppies. and says that he's blow up the whole city and puppies. Zohan and Phantom prevented him from doing so powerfully singing what's referred to as "the Sound", causing his mustache to twitch and the sewer drain he was standing on to pop, to which flies him into the air and crashes into a building, entering a room full of apparently effeminate people in a gathering. In an interview, the legitimate foreigners revealed on live TV that Walbridge was responsible for the attacks.
