--- title: Jack Black Reacts to Finding Out He Was in a Holiday Movie description: Who knew Jack Black had starred in a holiday movie? Certainly not Jack Black! At least he forgets for a second in this hammy clip. canonical: https://time.com/5748247/holiday-movie-jack-black/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2019-12-11T17:19:18.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:01:07.723Z og:title: Jack Black Reacts to Finding Out He Was in a Holiday Movie og:description: Who knew? Everyone. og:url: https://time.com/5748247/holiday-movie-jack-black/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1b8fde42429a353c/698a074c457a521d89d633cd/JackBlack.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Premiere Of Sony Pictures' "Jumanji: The Next Level" - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jack Black Reacts to Finding Out He Was in a Holiday Movie twitter:description: Who knew? Everyone. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1b8fde42429a353c/698a074c457a521d89d633cd/JackBlack.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Hammy Jack Black Has the Best Reaction to the Stunning Realization He Was in a Holiday Movie by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Dec 11, 2019 5:19 PM UTC  Jack Black arrives at the Premiere Of Sony Pictures' "Jumanji: The Next Level" held at TCL Chinese Theatre on December 9, 2019 in Hollywood, California. Jack Black arrives at the Premiere Of Sony Pictures' "Jumanji: The Next Level" held at TCL Chinese Theatre on December 9, 2019 in Hollywood, California.Getty Images by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Dec 11, 2019 5:19 PM UTC [Jack Black](https://time.com/3846865/jimmy-fallon-jack-black-more-than-words-extreme/) has starred in a lot of movies. There was _High Fidelity_ and _School of Rock_ and _Nacho Libre_ and _Kung Fu_ _Panda_ and the list goes on from there. So he will be forgiven for temporarily forgetting that he starred in a [Christmas movie](https://time.com/5047224/best-christmas-movies/). In a video interview shared by _Variety_ on Monday, Black was attending an event when _Variety_ reporter Angelique Jackson stopped him on the red carpet. She asked him what was his favorite [holiday movie](https://time.com/5715268/best-christmas-rom-coms-2019/) and he quickly replied, “It’s got to be _Elf,_” thanks to Jon Favreau and Will Ferrell “knocking it out of the park.” “I appreciate the humility,” Jackson replied, “You could have said your own movie.” At that, Black looked confused. “Do I have a Christmas movie?” he asked Jackson, seemingly befuddled. “Which one is mine?” A light bulb quickly went off and he realized the answer to his rhetorical question: “Oh! _The Holiday_!” Yes, Black at least to appeared to comically forget he got to play Kate Winslet’s love interest in a movie, alongside Cameron Diaz and Jude Law. After realizing his mistake, [Black](https://time.com/4070431/amy-poehler-jack-black-the-rose/) attempted to re-answer the question, “Obviously, _The Holiday_! Nancy Meyers! Genius!” He then said, “Let’s do this…” and made a quick exit down the red carpet before anyone could ask him if he has a favorite lucha libre movie. > [](https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1204263031359672321) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5748247/holiday-movie-jack-black/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5748247/holiday-movie-jack-black/"},"headline":"Hammy Jack Black Has the Best Reaction to the Stunning Realization He Was in a Holiday Movie","datePublished":"2019-12-11T17:19:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:01:07.723Z","description":"Who knew Jack Black had starred in a holiday movie?","url":"https://time.com/5748247/holiday-movie-jack-black/","keywords":["Newsfeed","movies","Jack Black"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1b8fde42429a353c/698a074c457a521d89d633cd/JackBlack.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1b8fde42429a353c/698a074c457a521d89d633cd/JackBlack.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Premiere Of Sony Pictures' \"Jumanji: The Next Level\" - Arrivals","caption":"Jack Black","creditText":"Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5748247/holiday-movie-jack-black/","name":"Hammy Jack Black Has the Best Reaction to the Stunning Realization He Was in a Holiday Movie"}}]}] ```