Jack Black has confessed to partaking in an alcohol and drug-fueled “rampage” while filming blockbuster King Kong in New Zealand. Black, whose wife Tanya Haden gave birth to the couple’s first child in June, indulged his wild side during shooting last year. He says, “I did ecstasy and went on a crazy rampage, running around, drinking and smoking like a chimney.”

Black has previously admitted to dabbling with cocaine during his teenage years before kicking the habit with the help of therapy.

The star, whose parents divorced when he was 10, says, “I did some drugs and stuff, but I was already into acting before that. I was doing cocaine and stuff, but it was all just me dying to fit in and be hardcore.”

DreamWorks Animation announced today that Angelina Jolie will join Jack Black, Jackie Chan, Lucy Liu, Dustin Hoffman, and Ian McShane in the cast of the computer-animated comedy Kung Fu Panda. The film will reunite Jolie and Black after having voiced lead characters together in the hit 2004 animated comedy, Shark Tale.

Jolie will play Tigress, a martial arts master who joins in training Black’s Po the Panda in the art of kung fu. Kung Fu Panda features Jack Black as Po the Panda, a lowly waiter in a noodle restaurant, who is a kung fu fanatic but whose shape doesn’t exactly lend itself to kung fu fighting. In fact, Po’s defining characteristic appears to be that he is the laziest of all the animals in ancient China. That’s a problem because powerful enemies are at the gates, and all hopes have been pinned on a prophesy naming Po as the “Chosen One” to save the day. A group of martial arts masters are going to need a black belt in patience if they are going to turn this slacker panda into a kung fu fighter before it’s too late.

Slated for release in May 2008, Kung Fu Panda is being directed by John Stevenson and Mark Osborne and produced by Melissa Cobb.

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Jack Black and his wife, Tanya Haden, are parents of a baby boy, the actor said.

“I’m going to be the best daddy on the planet and I’m going to enter the best daddy competition. And I’m going to win it,” Black said in a story posted on the website of the magazine Us Weekly.

The couple’s first child was born on Saturday, Black told Access Hollywood Monday evening at the Mann Grauman’s Chinese Theatre premiere for his new movie, Nacho Libre.

“I’ve got the babe back at home safe and sound and I’m actually very anxious to get back” to them, Black, 36, told the program.

Neither Us Weekly nor Access Hollywood reported the baby’s name.

Black has starred in films including The School of Rock and King Kong, and has a band called Tenacious D.

Haden, 35, is a cellist and the daughter of jazz great Charlie Haden.

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