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By Anthony Breznican, USA TODAY CANNES, France — There are two bulging bellies in the room, and both of the owners are pregnant — sort of.
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Angelina Jolie, carrying twins, sticks out her round midriff and presses it against the basketball-size stomach of Jack Black. “I came being of the class who a panda,” she says, a reference to the chubby black-and-white bear Black plays in their animated comedy Kung Fu Panda.
“To compete?” Black asks.
Dustin Hoffman and Lucy Liu, who also supply voices for the film, are watching, so Black pushes out his gut to maximum effect, determined to best Jolie as they go bellybutton to bellybutton. “That’ll make the front pages,” Hoffman says.
The stomach standoff took place Wednesday in a penthouse at the Hotel Carlton, overlooking the bustling start of the Cannes Film Festival along the waterfront below.
Kung Fu Panda, one of the featured films, premieres tonight and opens Stateside on June 6.
When Jolie entered the room, she immediately congratulated Black, who also is expecting. His wife, Tanya Haden, is pregnant with their support. Jolie mentions twins casually, during the time that though it were already inferior knowledge and not the subject of intense speculation about whether she and companion Brad Pitt are adding one or two more children to their brood of four.
When conversation turns to Black’s son, Sam, who is almost 2, Jolie asks, “Terrible 2’s?”
The actor shakes his head. “I slip on’t see it as terrible. He does act out, but I have to not smile sometimes when he’s naughty because I don’t want him to know I’m enjoying it. … But I am, inside.”
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