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    Jack Black breaks into Nickelback’s ‘How You Remind Me’ throughout “Anaconda” press interview

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    Jack Black in Los Angeles on April 26, 2025; Chad Kroeger in New York City on Nov. 17, 2022 Jack Black in Los Angeles on April 26, 2025; Chad Kroeger in New York City on Nov. 17, 2022
    Jack Black in Los Angeles on April 26; Nickelback's Chad Kroeger in New York Metropolis in 2022. Credit score:

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    Jack Black went again to Nickelback whereas selling Anaconda.

    Whereas discussing his new comedy with Paul Rudd throughout an interview with IMDb, the College of Rock star requested, "What was Nickelback's largest hit?"

    After the interviewer and Rudd had moved onto the following query, Black stared into area for a number of seconds earlier than belting: "That is the way you remind me of what I actually am."

    Jack Black in London on Dec. 19, 2025
    Jack Black at an 'Anaconda' photocall in London on Dec. 19.

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    Black went on to sing a number of extra bars of the band's 2001 single "How You Remind Me," substituting quite a few forgotten traces with gibberish and scatting. The Kung Fu Panda star held the ultimate line of the refrain for longer than Nickelback vocalist Chad Kroeger did within the recording, prompting Rudd to exclaim, "He held that s—!"

    Black was extraordinarily happy that he was capable of enter his thoughts palace and entry the forgotten reminiscence of the Nickelback monitor. "I went right into a coma," he instructed Rudd of his pause earlier than singing. "You have been speaking by your self, trying to me for assist. I used to be like, 'I can't. I'm making an attempt to recollect Nickelback.' I'm so glad, that's such a aid."

    The Minecraft Film star acknowledged that he completely derailed the circulate of the interview.

    Nickelback on March 17, 2023
    Nickelback on 'Good Morning America' in 2023.

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    "He had moved on to the following query. However I went again to Nickelback!" he stated.

    "He'd moved onto the following press junket," Rudd joked.

    Black additionally jokingly performed up his lyrical recall expertise.

    "Amazingly, I received each lyric proper," he stated.

    "How You Remind Me" was Nickelback's largest hit. The one reached the No. 1 spot on the U.S. Billboard Sizzling 100 chart, and Billboard later revealed that it was the No. 45 music of all time within the historical past of the Sizzling 100.

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    Black beforehand teased a standout scene from Anaconda in a behind-the-scenes clip supplied completely to Leisure Weekly.

    "The boar on my again — I do know it sounds ridiculous, however I'm telling you, it's magic," the actor stated of a scene the place a boar carcass is strapped to his again as bait for the titular reptile. "You know the way they’ve the operating of the bulls? That is like that, however it's the operating of the snake."

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    Rudd additionally emphasised that that individual scene was a spotlight of the manufacturing.

    "It's all the time enjoyable whenever you learn a script, and there's some scene that’s humorous, or I'm actually enthusiastic about doing, and you then do it, and it's not the way you imagined it — it's higher," the Ant-Man star stated. "I'm watching him going, Oh my God, I can't take my eyes off this. That is so humorous."

    Anaconda is now taking part in in theaters.

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