In September, Elle Fanning went viral after taking a lie detector test for Vanity Fair, answering questions asked by her sister Dakota and confessing that Jack Black was the most attractive man she had ever met.
Now, a video shared by Sony Pictures amused social media by showing Black’s hilarious reaction as he watched the actress from “Sentimental Value” praise him, alongside Paul Rudd, his co-star in “Anaconda”.
Upon realizing what it was about, the 56-year-old actor became shy and closed his eyes, choosing to just listen to what Fanning was saying in the clip.
The 27-year-old actress did not hold back on compliments, saying the actor was a “real heartthrob” and the most handsome man she had ever seen in her life: “A total knockout, my dear. Wow! It’s like, ‘Hallelujah!’”, she declared.
The “School of Rock” actor attributed Fanning’s fascination with him to what he called “goblin dysmorphia”: “Have you ever heard of body dysmorphia, when you look in the mirror and think, ‘Wow, I’m so ugly,’ but you actually see yourself as a beautiful creature?”, he asked Rudd.
“I think she has the opposite of that,” he explained. “She looks at me, who objectively is a monstrous goblin, and sees this beautiful creature, apparently. She has this strange kind of body dysmorphia, like goblin dysmorphia.”
“Thank you. I appreciate the compliment, but I need to close my eyes because I can’t properly process what I’m hearing,” Black joked. “But thank you, Elle,” he added.
Rudd made his friend even more uncomfortable by saying he completely understood Fanning’s point of view: “On behalf of Elle Fanning, I get it,” Rudd said with a smile.
“I really get it. I adore you, Jack. Just like America does. Just like the world does. Elle is right. Elle is right.”
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