‘No, You Take It From The Top!’: Jack Black Recalls Storming Off Tropic Thunder Set After Being Thrown Off A Water Buffalo, But There’s A Heartwarming Conclusion To The Story



Although it’s not on our list of R-rated comedies that earn their R ratings, I’d say Tropic Thunder definitely qualifies. The controversial 2008 movie, which can be streamed with a Paramount+ subscription, follows a group of actors becoming stranded in the Vietnam jungle while shooting a movie about the Vietnam War. In the midst of all the swearing, gore and gunfire, Jack Black’s Jeff Portnoy is shown going through drug withdrawal after losing his stash of “jelly beans” to a bat, and eventually he ends up tied to a water buffalo. As it turns out, shooting the movie with this animal resulted in Black storming off the Tropic Thunder set, but fortunately, this story ends on a heartwarming note.

Jack Black recounted the incident with the water buffalo while appearing on Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend. After the title host shared his story about the time he got on a water buffalo for his TBS show, was thrown off and ended up with a hematoma, Black confirmed that he’d gone through the same experience when he was working on Tropic Thunder in Kaua’i, Hawaii. The School of Rock alum admitted that he’s “afraid of animals,” so he was understandably concerned about being put onto the water buffalo for a scene. He continued:

I had been assured everything’s cool, so I got off the back of it, and I’m supposed to come around the bend on this mountain path, and I’m just in my underpants. I think I’m strapped to the buffalo because I’m going through drug withdrawals at the same time, so I’m a sweaty mess. And the buffalo I can tell is just a little bit uncomfortable. And they say ‘Action!’, and we start moving, and I’m like, ‘Uh oh, what’s happening here?’ Maybe it sensed my fear, but it was uncomfortable, and it just started bucking bronco. And I was like, ‘Ahhhhh!’, and I flew off of that thing and I went ass over tea kettle. I think, because there’s no footage of it… we hadn’t entered frame yet. We were right behind the mountain, we were coming around, and I flew and did a little flipty-do and landed miraculously between two boulders and did not get injured at all.



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