Jack Black Showed Up in a Full Bowser Onesie in Tokyo and Honestly We Expected Nothing Less
If you thought Jack Black’s Bowser era ended with the first movie, you were so wrong. The man literally showed up in a full Bowser onesie at a photo call for The Super Mario Galaxy Movie in Tokyo on March 26, 2026 — and the internet’s obsession with this man just leveled up again.
Black, who voices the Koopa King himself, arrived at the event fully in character for the sequel to 2023’s The Super Mario Bros. Movie. And honestly? Nobody does it like him. While most actors phone in press tours with designer fits and rehearsed soundbites, Jack Black chooses chaos every single time.
Black wasn’t the only one going all-in. Keegan-Michael Key, who voices Toad, pulled up rocking his character’s iconic mushroom hat paired with a decked out suit covered in Super Mario characters. The energy was immaculate.
The rest of the cast was also on hand in Tokyo, and the lineup alone is enough to break the internet. We’re talking Chris Pratt as Mario, Charlie Day as Luigi, Anya Taylor-Joy as Princess Peach, Donald Glover voicing Yoshi and Benny Safdie as Bowser Jr.. That’s a roster that spans like five separate massive fandoms, and they’re all together promoting a Mario movie in Tokyo. The crossover energy is unreal.
Holding this event in Tokyo adds an entirely different layer of cool. The Super Mario franchise was born in Japan, and staging the sequel’s big press moment there gives the whole thing serious gaming and anime culture cachet. For a generation that grew up importing Japanese gaming culture, this setting just hits different.
Of course, you can’t talk about Jack Black and Bowser without talking about “Peaches” — the song that consumed everyone’s For You Page and group chats when the first movie dropped in 2023. In the film, Black’s Bowser is madly in love with Princess Peach (voiced by Taylor-Joy) and belts out this absurdly catchy love ballad where the hook is literally just the word “Peaches” over and over again.
The music video — because of course there is one — features Black in a Bowser-inspired costume tinkling the ivories on a peach-colored piano in a peach-colored room, occasionally gazing at a framed photo of Princess Peach. It’s camp. It’s commitment. And it’s racked up over 72 million views on YouTube.
Black even performed the single at The Game Awards 10-Year Concert at the Hollywood Bowl shortly after the first Super Mario movie premiered. The man does not break character.
The story behind “Peaches” makes it even better. Co-director Aaron Horvath explained how Black took the track and made it entirely his own.
“Jack Black is an incredible singer and musician, so we spent a night writing the song and sent the demo to Jack,” Horvath said, according to Insider. “A couple [of] days later, Jack sent us back a finished track. He had added his own twist on it and his pianist played an original music track for it. We were blown away.”
With a cast this stacked, a Tokyo press event this meme-worthy and the cultural momentum of “Peaches” still echoing across the internet, The Super Mario Galaxy Movie already feels like it’s going to dominate timelines. Black showing up in that Bowser onesie is just the opening move — and if the first movie taught us anything, this man will continue to deliver content we didn’t know we needed.
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