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Jack back for Panda premiere
Jack back for Panda premiere
Jack Black, Lucy Liu and Dustin Hoffman thrilled fans at the UK premiere of their new animated film Kung Fu Panda.The movie tells the story of Po, a bungling panda voiced by comic actor Black who aspires to be a kung fu warrior.Having arrived in a litter carried by four men, Black treated fans to a demonstration of the martial art, showing off his moves at London's Leicester Square.However he denied he would be using his moves for real, saying: "I'm not a violent person by nature. If I see violence happening on an unsuspecting victim, my tendency is to rescue. The only time I'm really going to bust out the moves is for self-defence."Meanwhile fellow stars Lucy Liu and Dustin Hoffman tried their hand at origami in front of reporters, with Liu swiftly making a boat before Hoffman made a paper aeroplane, which he threw into the crowd.Angelina Jolie, who voices the tigress in the film, was a notable absentee from the premiere as she is in her final weeks of pregnancy.Liu, wearing a dark red dress, was full of praise for Black: "I'm a huge fan of his. He's a tremendous person. I just went in and had a blast. I had so much fun."The film had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival in May and opens in the UK on July 4.
ITN | June 27, 2008
