How Jack Black Pretended To Be The Bionic Man | Best of Jack Black | The Graham Norton Show

Jack Black, where you just came back from, is that Korea you were in? I was in Korea and China, yes, we went to do Kung Fu Panda, we were doing the promotion of Kung Fu Panda, yes, CU, it seems like everything because it's a cartoon, yes, I know where. You see, it's not my voice, they have a Chinese person doing the voice, it's not my face, it's a cartoon, why am I there? Yeah, that's cool, because I think it helps to have a real Hollywood legend there and then I do a high five with the Chinese actor and I pass the torch to him and I don't know why I'm there.

It was a fun trip. Are you a true Elon John fan? I am, actually from the beginning I have been obsessed. I would like to be Elton John like that, sing like that, but no, what I read in an interview where throughout the interview they kept asking you questions and all you could do was sing an Elton John song that you couldn't remember well. I have trouble remembering lyrics, I generally remember improvisations. I remember the melodies, but do you remember the one you made that says it's just you singing and the piano? I like it wait this part sounds strong with the one I D S take me to the I have you now take me to the pilot the trips of gul yes the trips of guler That's my movie that's my new jam there it's a classic reinvented a classic but you got it I mean , it's the right story but we have a modern twist that's right, we stayed Absolutely faithful to the 300 year old original, no, we've modernized it a little bit and added some new flavors, but it's still true to the humor, the original humor and, of course it's in 3D, it's a 3D extravaganza, so that's weird.

It's like looking at yourself in 3D because you never see yourself in 3. That's right, right? If you look in a mirror, you only see yourself in 2D. You never understand that there are a very small number of people who actually experience themselves in 3D. a handful, yes, it's like being an astronaut, me, some blue people, yes, my stomach is coming to you, this is something I have heard about you, that for every movie you make, you write and perform a musical theme well and However, I have seen Jamanji and There didn't seem to be any of you, the movie hasn't officially released yet so it's not my time to do something funny.

I got them, thank you, um, no, I told them to fix his tie. I told them to thank them. guys for fixing my tie. I'm going to have a talk for the first time. um, this has been a very long press tour. I love these guys. I wrote a song. We were all playing with a theme song, uh and uh. Nick Jonas and I put the finishing touches on it and filmed a music video. I hope to release it soon, but do you want to try it out a little? Yes, this might be the only time you hear it.

I do not know if. he's going to make the final cut but he's pretty powerful a jumi it's a jungle inside your soul somewhere deep at the end of the world wow beautiful survival you just have to dip the jewel inside say the name of the game thank you wow thank you Look, the movie It turned out great, so who cares if you're a bit of a dictator. You know it was just there. I had fun the whole time except for the incident with the water buffalo, yeah, where I went flying. I was naked on the back of a water buffalo with my clothes sorted out, not naked, yeah, and uh, the water buffalo got scared for some reason and just confronted me and Bronco and I literally went flying and landed precariously between two rocks. miraculously unharmed and uh, there was like a few seconds for him to catch his breath and then Ben on the megaphone, can we take that from above?

Jack, I wasn't kidding, I was serious, saying no we won't take it from above, the specialist got up there and it turned out Buffalo was pregnant, we didn't, we didn't know Buffalo was a female, that's why she was pregnant, But the story had a happy ending, didn't it? What do we call the baby who was named Jack? true

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, they named the baby Jack apparently there's a water buffalo somewhere with my name on it, that's a fake story Tommy and Tommy Sammy and Tommy are seven and nine, okay, so take him to school too so you don't

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off , but let me go, we are so normal, I don't feel guilty, although they should take me to buy a book every time.

I would just take them to the frozen yogurt, but here's the thing, because seven and nine you're going to take them to see your new movie Goosebumps, oh them. I've seen that they were the first in the world, in fact, I brought out some strengths and I had a screening at their school, which was very exciting for them, yes, how cool to have a father who did that, it was cool, but they still They didn't sit with me, they wanted to sit with their friends there, not with the old man who is in the movie, yes, we don't want him, that

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s that no matter who your father is, he is still very It's embarrassing to sit with him because it's a scary movie, like it has proper scares, yes it does, but we were careful not to traumatize enough to Thrill, no nightmares, not a drop of blood, my guarantee, just a little bit of Wee, yes. and Jack Black really steals this movie, he's going to be modest while we're here, but he's amazing, he plays a 16 year old girl and he does it perfectly, brilliant, brilliant, yeah, okay, I've never put Jack on the spot , but I have to do it now, since you know, I love this show, I love coming back, the girls are here, they'll appreciate it, the audience will appreciate it, oh, do it, I know what you're going to do.

Jack Jack does this. amazing a scene where he shows Karen Gillan, who is our wonderful actress, our own Karen Gill, your own Karen Gillan, uh, how to flirt, yeah, when a 16 year old girl becomes her Jack, wait, I have to Act right now, turn up the volume. guys, they just say that I stole the movie and now I have to show you my own action, this is not going to go well, this is not my kind of environment to release the Kraken in, um, I think the main thing is to relax and just be yourself and I'm sorry, that's all you get, that's all you get for now, you've been in some of the most successful movies of the last 10 years, I mean, you know King Kong, just King Kong SC High Fidelity Tropic Thunder, the list.

Go on, you're embarrassing me, but what I would say is CV watch or resume, yeah, if it seems unlikely, go for it because in your teens you didn't seem ambitious at all, you didn't seem ambitious at all. driven, yeah you were a little off the rails, yeah how do you explain I don't know? Can this kid, this guy with this face who goes off the rails on the crazy train end up with a tremendous, sweet, sweet life? I thank my lucky stars every day. I can not explain it. I just got lucky and had an incredibly fun and supportive family, but you always like to show off, right?

I liked being in front of a crowd from a very young age. I needed that, yes, I needed that love and attention, the stage propelled me forward and it was that make yourself thing, was it the

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man you made? Yeah, but hey, I don't know if you had Bion, did you have $6 million still? Yeah, we did, yeah, yeah, in the '70s, yeah, that was my favorite Jam, the 6 Million Dollar Man, and I desperately wanted to be

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and I wanted people to think I was bionic and when I was a kid I put wires in my I put wires in there and I let them stick out a little bit to make it look like I didn't want it to show and then when someone said are those wires, I was like no, it's nothing, maybe then they would think that I.

He had bionic powers, he was half man, half machine and could run 60 million hours. How desperate he was, but sometimes that desperation translates into ardor, it's just in high school, oh.