'School of Rock' actor Rivkah Reyes said the late Freddie actor Kevin Clark came up with the movie's ending

• "School of Rock" ends with the band losing Battle of the Bands but playing a terrific encore.
• It was Freddy actor Kevin Clark who came up with this after producers struggled for an ending.
• Clark died in May this year after being hit by a driver while biking in Chicago.

"School of Rock" is an iconic movie with an iconic ending. Jack Black's troop of high schoolers lose the Battle of the Bands competition, but are cheered on for an encore after winning the hearts of the crowd.

In a TikTok, Rivkah Reyes, who played bassist Katie, revealed that the ending was created by an unlikely source: the late Kevin Clark, who played drummer Freddy and was only 13-years-old at the time.

"The ending wasn't landing... We tried one version of it where we win [the Battle of the Bands competition]. We tried another version of it where we lose and that's it. It just wasn't hitting," Reyes said on TikTok.

"The team was just like, 'What do we do about this ending?' And Kevin is just like, 'It'd be cool if like, we lost and then the audience started cheering, 'School of Rock! School of Rock!' and then they bring us out for an encore.'"

Reyes continued: "So this guy, at 13 years old, wrote the ending of 'School of Rock.'"

The band ends up playing "It's a Long Way to the Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll)" by AC/DC with some fittingly altered lyrics as their encore tune.

Clark died aged 32 earlier this year in May after a driver hit him while he was biking in Chicago. "School of Rock" was his only acting credit as he went on to have a full-time music career after the movie's release.

Reyes posted the TikTok caption in remembrance of Clark, writing: "Missing Kev. His legacy will forever live on."

Also in May this year, Reyes said that her role in the movie led to her being bullied.

"Especially after production wrapped, when I first came back to school, people were really nice or really mean," Reyes said in an interview with The New York Post. "There was no middle ground. I was literally followed around the school with people chanting 'School of Rock.'"

Reyes said she also used drugs, sex, and alcohol to cope during the ages of 14-24 after the movie had been released. Like her other costars, she has changed since "School of Rock" hit cinemas in 2003.