Another Baby on Board for Jack Black

Jack Black and wife expecting their second child together

By Gina Serpe Jan 05, 2008 8:34 PMTags

Looks like Jack Black's personal school of rock can count on at least one more enrollee.

The big-screen funnyman and wife Tanya Haden are expecting their second child together, the actor revealed during a press junket for his latest film, Be Kind Rewind, Saturday.

"Yes, she's expecting," he told reporters.

The duo, who eloped in March 2006, already have one son together, 19-month-old Samuel.

The 36-year-old star offered no elaboration on the pending stork delivery, including the due date or sex of the latest addition. However, he did say he was up for the challenge of another Black offspring, despite intimidating warnings about the increased parenting difficulty.

"I've been told that two children is three times as hard as one child, but then strangely, three children is easier than one," he said, adding that, for the time being, his new parenting strategy is simply to take it "day by day."

Black and Haden, 35, first met while attending high school in Los Angeles, when Black had an admittedly unreciprocated crush on the musician. However, 20 years and one successful movie career later, Black was able to woo his onetime high school sweetheart after a chance meeting at a friend's party in 2005. She is a professional cellist who performed in the Haden Triplets with her two sisters.

As for Black, in addition to gearing up for another round of diaper duty, the actor is set to hit the big screen in Michel Gondry's Be Kind Rewind as a man whose brain becomes magnetized and, after unintentionally destroying every tape in his friend's video rental store, sets out to replace, by remaking, the films himself.

The film is due out Feb. 22.