- - Jack Black breaks into Nickelback’s 'How You Remind Me' during “Anaconda” press interview

Wesley StenzelDecember 31, 2025 at 2:30 AM

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Jack Black in Los Angeles on April 26; Nickelback's Chad Kroeger in New York City in 2022

Jack Black went back to Nickelback while promoting Anaconda.

While discussing his new comedy with Paul Rudd during an interview with IMDb, the School of Rock star asked, "What was Nickelback's biggest hit?"

After the interviewer and Rudd had moved onto the next question, Black stared into space for several seconds before belting: "This is how you remind me of what I really am."

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

Black went on to sing several more bars of the band's 2001 single "How You Remind Me," substituting numerous forgotten lines with gibberish and scatting. The Kung Fu Panda star held the final line of the chorus for longer than Nickelback vocalist Chad Kroeger did in the recording, prompting Rudd to exclaim, "He held that s---!"

Black was extremely satisfied that he was able to enter his mind palace and access the forgotten memory of the Nickelback track. "I went into a coma," he told Rudd of his pause before singing. "You were talking by yourself, looking to me for help. I was like, 'I can't. I'm trying to remember Nickelback.' I'm so glad, that's such a relief."

The Minecraft Movie star acknowledged that he totally derailed the flow of the interview.

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Nickelback on 'Good Morning America' in 2023

"He had moved on to the next question. But I went back to Nickelback!" he said.

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

Black also jokingly played up his lyrical recall skills.

"Amazingly, I got every lyric right," he said.

"How You Remind Me" was Nickelback's biggest hit. The single reached the No. 1 spot on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart, and Billboard later revealed that it was the No. 45 song of all time in the history of the Hot 100.

Black previously teased a standout scene from Anaconda in a behind-the-scenes clip provided exclusively to Entertainment Weekly.

"The boar on my back — I know it sounds ridiculous, but I'm telling you, it's magic," the actor said of a scene where a boar carcass is strapped to his back as bait for the titular reptile. "You know how they have the running of the bulls? This is like that, but it's the running of the snake."

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Rudd also emphasized that that particular scene was a highlight of the production.

"It's always fun when you read a script, and there's some scene that is funny, or I'm really excited about doing, and then you do it, and it's not how you imagined it — it's better," the Ant-Man star said. "I'm watching him going, Oh my God, I can't take my eyes off this. This is so funny."

Anaconda is now playing in theaters.

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