Tenacious D’s Jack Black and Kyle Gass; Britney Spears.Photo:Tenacious D/X, George De Sota/Redferns
Tenacious D/X, George De Sota/Redferns
Jack BlackandKyle Gassare channeling their inner pop stars.
At the end of the clip, Black, 54, holds up a fist, revealing the word “BABY” written across his fingers. He captioned thevideo on TikTokandInstagram, “Tenacious B! 🐼,” while on X (formerly known as Twitter),the band wrote, “STILL BELIEVE 🐼💥🐯.”
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During The Give Back-ular Spectacular! event in Los Angeles back in October 2023, held to support members of SAG-AFTRA duringthe Hollywood strike, Black delivered an impromptucover of Swift’sMidnightstrack “Anti-Hero.”
In a fan-postedvideo from the event, the actor-musician-comedian stripped down to just his boxers as the audience cheered. He then walked down to an audience member to ask where they were from, getting just “Los Angeles” as a hilarious response.
Shortly after, Black delivered a theatrical rendition of the “Anti-Hero” chorus, while prancing from side to side across the stage and doing a backward shuffle when he got to the “It’s me, hi, I’m the problem, it’s me” lyric.
The fun Swift cover came on the heels of Black’s successful “Peaches” song fromThe Super Mario Bros. Movie, which he made asurprise appearance to performduring aJonas Brothersconcert back in December 2023.
Poster forKung Fu Panda 4(2024).Universal Pictures
Universal Pictures
Black returns as the heroic Po inKung Fu Panda 4, more than eight years after the release ofKung Fu Panda 3in 2016. Between that film and the upcoming fourth installment, the actor also voiced Po inKung Fu Panda: The Dragon Knight, which premiered onNetflixin 2022 and released its third season this past September.
The new sequel finds Po “tapped to become the Spiritual Leader of the Valley of Peace,” which “poses a couple of obvious problems,” per a synopsis. “First, Po knows as much about spiritual leadership as he does about the paleo diet, and second, he needs to quickly find and train a new Dragon Warrior before he can assume his new lofty position.”
As for the project Black is most proud of in his career so far,he told PEOPLE in April 2023, “In a weird way, it might beTenacious D in the Pick of Destiny, because that’s the only movie that I wrote.”
Kung Fu Panda 4is in theaters March 8.
source: people.com
