'Kung Fu Panda': Q&A with Jack Black
By Emily Christianson, Hollywood.com Staff
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Thursday, June 05, 2008
Angelina Jolie is having twins and the whole world knows about it thanks to one man; Jack Black. But the actor’s slip up at the Cannes Film Festival was just the tip of the ice berg. Black says there’s more to the story about his Kung Fu Panda costar than we know.
“The truth is I didn’t tell the whole story,” Black confesses. “I held back. What the hell! I’m going to tell you. She’s actually pregnant with triplet…pandas, which is great news for the panda population. We got three new pandas coming. Unfortunately it’s really bad news for Brad Pitt, because they are not his.”
Luckily for the serial jokester, the two remain “good friends.”
It wasn’t all Angelina talk during a recent interview with the new dad, we also got the scoop on his latest role as Po the panda, working with Dustin Hoffman and more.
Hollywood.com: You started working on this film four years ago. How has Po evolved since the start of the project?
Jack Black: I evolved as a character. When we first did it, I remember I was like, “I wonder if that’s too whiney or too shrieky.” And calling up the next day and saying, “I want to come back in. I think maybe I was too whiney or shrieky.” And then I came back and we did it again. But, I never did it all in one sitting. I never sat down and did the whole movie at once, because that’s not the process they were working with – it was more organic script development.