“I didn’t think, ‘Oh, this is gonna be one of the parts people remember from the movie.’”

Jack Black breaks down taking pictures the well-known rooster jockey scene from A Minecraft Movie that turned film theaters into pure chaos.

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A Minecraft Movie is presently the third-highest-grossing movie of 2025, and it featured some extremely meme-able moments. One of the preferred scenes is the combat sequence that includes Jason Momoa’s Garrett going up towards a rooster jockey, a uncommon look within the Minecraft recreation that sees a child zombie driving a rooster.

Jack Black’s Steve, reacting to the combat whereas ringside, has grow to be a fan-favorite a part of the movie and a viral meme.

Jack Black explains the rooster jockey scene

While showing on What’s Our Podcast? with Beck Bennett and Kyle Mooney, Black was requested about his notorious rooster jockey second. Mooney puzzled if Black had a way that the scene would grow to be iconic and significant.

“Okay, when we did that scene, that show was a part of like a bunch of shots we did over the course of one hour where it was just reaction shots,” Black started. “‘Cause the scene is really this fight between Jason Momoa and this chicken jockey, zombie baby on the back of a chicken.”

“And they needed to get this shot of me just yelling, ‘You got him!’ And I used to be type of channeling Burgess Meredith from Rocky. ‘You got him, Rocky. He’s a bit of iron,” he added in Meredith’s voice. “That’s what I was kind of doing. I don’t know why that felt right. Cause we’re in a boxing ring, and I’m in the wings. The old man trying to cheer on the fighter.”

“And so I was having a ball,” Black defined. “I didn’t think, ‘Oh, this is gonna be one of the parts people remember from the movie, is my reaction shot to this fight.’ But I was going all out. And I was …into it.”

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“You don’t watch dailies anymore,” he continued. “Back in the day, in the ’90s, when you did a movie, every day you would go in and see all the scenes you shot yesterday. You would go at lunch hour to watch all the stuff as it’s coming. So I didn’t get to watch it back, but in my mind I was like, ‘I think we got a little magic in there.’ Because I was going nuts.”

You can watch the rooster jockey scene in query on Warner Bros. Entertainment’s YouTube channel:

What to anticipate from A Minecraft Movie sequel

It was introduced earlier this week that A Minecraft Movie can be getting a sequel in 2027.

Jared Hess is returning to direct, and he’ll write the script with Chris Galletta. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the forged has but to be introduced for the sequel. However, Momoa is signed on as one of many producers.

We additionally know that it’ll launch on the identical date as The Simpsons’ second film on July 23, 2027.

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