Jennifer Lopez Makes Surprise Appearance in Jack Black’s Anaconda Movie

Anaconda Viewers were in for a surprise when… Jennifer Lopez She popped into a scene with the new movie star Jack Black.

“Are you Doug McAllister? You released the unauthorized copy of… Anaconda Even though you didn’t have the rights?” Lopez, 56, said in social media footage of the film playing an exaggerated version of herself. “I saw your little movie, and I loved it. That’s why I’m here.”

She continued: “I’m here because we’re doing something else AnacondaAnd I want you to guide him. Are you inside?”

Black’s character, Doug, fainted before he could respond.

Lopez rose to fame in 1997 Anaconda reverse Jon Voight, Ice Cube and Owen Wilson. The horror film follows the adventure of a documentary crew in the Amazon after they are forced to help a snake catcher (played by Voight, now 86) catch a giant anaconda.

In the recently released version of Black anaconda, Two friends (played by Black, 56, and W Paul Rudd) Trying to remake the J. Lo movie. However, their filmmaking journey takes an unexpected turn when they encounter a real snake.

“I was slightly traumatized by snakes in my teenage years,” Black said. USA Today Earlier this month he overcame his fears to star in the new film. “A snake broke free in my house, and we found it hours later, slithering out of my mattress. It crawled into a hole in the mattress, and ever since, it has been haunting my dreams.”

At one point in the film, Black runs through the woods carrying a 30-pound wild boar on his shoulders.

“This is a complex scene. There are a lot of different angles and movement and energy,” Black recalled to the outlet. “Running through grass on uneven ground, that’s all hard, but the hardest part is not having any of that stuff. Pretending to be terrified for long periods of time is very exhausting. That’s really the hardest part, weirdly.”

He added: “This is going to sound stupid, and I’m going to wish I hadn’t said this, but people don’t understand how hard acting is. If you’re acting.” [with] So emotional, it’s so exhausting.

Lopez’s OG version of the movie was also filmed in the jungle.

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“Have you noticed how there’s always a rat scene in the movies? I hate it,” Lopez said in a 1997 interview with the magazine. AnacondaPointing out that other movie scenes were much easier than if she was working with mice. “It was my first time [in the Amazon] I cannot say that I will return to cinema. “It was difficult to shoot the film, to be on the water all day.”

Lopez also explained why she made her version of Anaconda It was a “hard party.”

“You get drenched, you’re in the shower, and you feel like you’re on the boat,” she joked. “You’re like, ‘Is the floor moving or am I?’ “…It wasn’t an easy job, but it was fun and we had a good time. We had a great crew.”

Lopez even praised Voight for managing to pull off “being entertaining and funny while still being a threat.”

“I really like the character,” she added.

Anaconda Currently in theaters.