Elle Fanning Reacts to Jack Black's Shoutout After Crush Confession

Golden Globes 2026: What Dakota Fanning Promised Elle Fanning Before ‘The Nightingale’

Elle Fanning is fawning over her celebrity crush Jack Black.

While on the red carpet at the 2026 Golden Globes on Jan. 11, the Sentimental Value star was surprised by a video message from the comedian, who she previously described as "sex on legs."

"You make me very embarrassed with all this hall pass talk," Jack quipped in an Access Hollywood clip shown to Elle at the Jan. 11 award show. "Look, I'm very flattered, but I have to keep my eye closed because I am so embarrassed."

Blowing her a kiss, the 56-year-old continued, "Much love to you and yours."

Jack—who has been married to wife Tanya Haden since 2006—also had an equally sweet and humorous note to Elle's boyfriend Gus Wenner, who was her date to the Nikki Glaser-hosted ceremony. (Click here to see all the stars on the red carpet.)

"Hi to your boyfriend also," he added. "Dude, I didn't do anything."

"You once called him 'the perfect man,'" Dakota, 31, reminded her younger sister during their September appearance on Vanity Fair’s Lie Detection Test series. "Would you leave your boyfriend if Jack Black declared his love for you?"

Though Elle ultimately said she would not break up with her boyfriend of two years for Jack, the lie detector showed "some deception" in her answer, prompting the sisters to burst out into laughter.

"Gus doesn't care," Elle reasoned with a chuckle, adding that when the Rolling Stone exec ran into Jack at the 2024 Golden Globes, he told the Tenacious D musician, "'You're her hall pass, by the way.'"

To see Elle and Gus—as well as other celebrity couples—at this year's Globes, read on...