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Jack Black Recalls Angelina Jolie's Pregnancy Present

05/11/11 08:37 AM ET   AP

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CANNES, France -- Jack Black told the world that Angelina Jolie was pregnant with twins three years ago, when their animated comedy "Kung Fu Panda" played at the Cannes Film Festival then.

And what does Jolie do? She sends a lovely present to Black's own pregnant wife, Tanya Haden.

Black and Jolie, who are returning to Cannes this year for interviews and photos to promote "Kung Fu Panda 2," recalled her nice gesture during a recent interview in Los Angeles.

"You were preggers, and I spilled the beans," Black reminisced alongside Jolie about how he let slip during a 2008 Cannes interview that she was carrying twins. "And my wife, Tanya, was like, `That is the most amazing maternity dress I've ever seen.' You had this gorgeous gown, and she was less preggers, but she had one on the way as well.

"And you're like, `Oh, thanks.' And then, what do we get in the mail like the next week? That gown," Black said to Jolie. "You sent it over. It was one of the sweetest gifts of all time."

Wednesday and Thursday's Cannes visit is the third trip to the festival that Jolie and Black have made together. Their first was in 2004, when they and voice star Will Smith rode a giant inflatable shark in the Mediterranean to promote their animated adventure "Shark Tale."

Before that, Black and Jolie had only met in passing, but "that float on the shark was the beginning of a blossoming friendship," Jolie said. "That was our bonding moment."

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CANNES, France -- Jack Black told the world that Angelina Jolie was pregnant with twins three years ago, when their animated comedy "Kung Fu Panda" played at the Cannes Film Festival then. And what d...
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MrsBillingsley
11:57 AM on 05/12/2011
WOW!! Red letter day. Mark this on the calendar -- a neutral thread about Angelina Jolie. In a couple of years we might see a thread that was actually positive about AJ. Will wonders never cease?
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The Revolving Diet
Doing a Different Diet Weekly & Blogging about it
10:08 AM on 05/12/2011
Very nice gesture.
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butchcliff
The future is unwritten
08:21 AM on 05/12/2011
Jolie was nice to do this
Laura Harring was so beautiful...sad they didn't work it out
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MrsBillingsley
12:30 PM on 05/12/2011
Jack Black was never with Laura Harring but her look-a-like Laura Kightlinger, a comic who also produces sit-coms. Black and Kightlinger broke up in 2005.

http://www.calendarlive.com/custom/envelope/cl-arrivals50_htvmtzn1,0,484434.photo

Jack and Tanya married in 3/06.
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butchcliff
The future is unwritten
06:10 AM on 05/13/2011
Thanks...always thought it was Harring
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ethiopia1a
I want to take Lady Karma out for drinks and treat
07:47 AM on 05/12/2011
HA HA many idiot are here ... get a life haters 6 years is a long time to be hating SICKO.. Take care ur own life.. ???? go get help before it too late ..
09:40 AM on 05/12/2011
what? what does this refer to? Jack black?
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Howard53545
05:13 AM on 05/12/2011
Even fatty Jack Black got him a hottie.
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Francois Bergeron
seeking sense
03:07 AM on 05/12/2011
Come ooon, it's a nice gesture. Grumpy people here. It's news because it was an interview and these people are hot.
12:11 AM on 05/12/2011
Jolie giving away an old dress is newsworthy? Even in the Entertainment section? LOL
Karama
Procrastinator
01:50 AM on 05/12/2011
It wasn't exactly an 'old' dress. She wore it once.
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Michael Johns
11:36 PM on 05/12/2011
How do you know how many times Jolie wore the dress? Quit talking out of your bum.
10:48 PM on 05/11/2011
Angelina Jolie Jack Black in Cannes Video... promoting Hung Fu Panda 2

http://tinyurl.com/42nkqfc
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Michael Johns
11:39 PM on 05/12/2011
The above link (tinyurl) is bogus. There is no video. Don't waste your time with Samdos' BS.
10:09 PM on 05/11/2011
Oh, omg, wow. What a strange post. I don't know what this is about.
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Freedom from fear - the philosophy of human rights
12:39 AM on 05/12/2011
Scroll down.
Phxgwen's has posted the background info..
09:20 PM on 05/11/2011
it's here b/c jennifer aniston's movie is in the news. i've noticed that whenever jennifer's in the news, something utterly inane comes up about angelina. i guess it's a good p.r. person.
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Freedom from fear - the philosophy of human rights
12:36 AM on 05/12/2011
So true.
Angelina found out the Release Date for Jennifer's new movie and convinced
the Directors of  the Cannes Film Festival to schedule this year's  Festival at the
exact same time. Remarkable.
OR -
Is it the other way around?  
Did Jennifer schedule her film's Release Date to coincide with the Cannes Film Festival?
It's a mystery.
Today HP's Entertainment Page had this article online BEFORE
the article about Jennifer.  An HP Editor must be a FAN of Angelina and 
deliberately posted her  article hours before Jennifer's. 
Hmmmmm
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MrsBillingsley
12:01 PM on 05/12/2011
Jennifer Anniston doesn't have a film opening unitl JULY 2011 FCOL!!!

Maybe you are thinking of Aniston's phoney perfume launch last July during the week Angie premiered "SALT" accompanied by numerous photo-ops of JA's travels in various airports, restaurants and at Harrod's
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MrsBillingsley
02:53 PM on 05/13/2011
Let's see 1) Angie is promoting a major animated movie that is the sequel of one of the highest grossing animation movies of all time that screened at Cannes Film Festival. Dreamworks Animation had that scheduled for months and months 2) Jen's film that doesn't open until JULY 8th launched it's much delayed (a lame) trailer. I think the legitimacy issue is pretty well weighted to inane being the Jen reference. We also needed to wait til now to see her new SmartWater ad. Why am I NOT surprised?
07:59 PM on 05/11/2011
Great story. Very sweet of her.
jaslyn
why can't we all just get along?
07:06 PM on 05/11/2011
only in celeb world can this throwaway, simple conversation be printed as newsworthy.
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Michael Johns
11:43 PM on 05/12/2011
The above story isn't about the conversation, but the lovely gesture from Angelina revealed in the conversation. C'mon, Jaslyn, you're smarter than you're acting with that silly post. Folks love simple acts of kindness. Especially from celebrities.
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debrislide
I rob banks for a living, what do you do?
05:47 PM on 05/11/2011
Yeah wtf.
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susou
hmm...
05:26 PM on 05/11/2011
I must've read the 3rd and 4th paragraphs 5 million times and I still can't understand what's being sad.

Ugh.
08:50 PM on 05/11/2011
"He spilled the beans". The last time they were in Cannes being interviewed Jolie was very pregnant but has refused to talk about if it was a boy or a girl. Jack during the interview said "when "these" come along you will have as many as The Brady Bunch!" He didn't realize that he has just let out in an taped interview that Jolie was actually pregnant with twins. That was something they had managed to keep quiet until then. Jack felt bad for blurting out the secret info.
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Writer-Better Wombs & Gardens,The Blastocyst
05:04 PM on 05/11/2011
Angelina did that with such aplomb.