If the sight of Jack Black running around the jungle in the Anaconda trailers inspires you to have feelings of deja vu, it’s totally understandable: he’s been spending a lot of time in the wild as of late. Earlier this year, fans saw him doing some big time adventuring in A Minecraft Movie, and we are not that long removed from his work on both Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle and Jumanji: The Next Level (and the next movie is coming soon!). That’s a lot of time spent out in nature – but according to the star, nothing to date has compared to creature creepiness that he experienced in the making of Ben Stiller’s Tropic Thunder.
While Anaconda might feature Black working alongside a real snake, he recently told USA Today that nothing that happened in the making of the new action movie was akin to what he witnessed in the making of the beloved 2008 meta war movie. The actor was asked about running into “wild critters” while shooting in exotic locales like Australia and New Zealand, and he explained that the “worst” he encountered was actually in the United States:
