Anaconda Finally Unites Paul Rudd And Jack Black: ‘A Long Time Coming’

For years now, Paul Rudd and Jack Black have been Hollywood comedy legends. But we only have one brief example of what happens when their powers are combined: that legendary Beatles scene in music biopic parody Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story , in which Black played Paul McCartney, with Rudd as his Lennon. But now, finally, we get an all-out Rudd-Black team-up, in Anaconda , no less – a new take on the killer snake movie, in which the pair play members of an intrepid team trying to make their own low-budget Anaconda remake, only to run afoul of a real giant snake.

“This has been a long time coming,” Jack Black tells Empire of their eventual team-up, in a joint interview with Rudd. “Me and Paul have been in a mutual-admiration society for decades.” It goes right back to when