Ignacio (Jack Black) Signs Off His Letter To Sister Encarnacion The romance plot in Nacho Libre sees Ignacio pining for the new Nun at the Oaxaca monastery, Sister Encarnacion (Ana de la Reguera).

His character, Brother Ignacio, in the comedy “Nacho Libre” overflows with those two characteristics. Like previous slap shtick comedians, Black turns the mundane into the preposterous.

But Nacho is Napoleon; his scrawny, slightly effeminate wrestling partner, Esqueleto (Hector Jimenez), is Pedro; and the doe-eyed Sister Encarnacion (Mexican telenovela star Ana de la Reguera) is Deb.

LOS ANGELES — Jack Black puts in serious work to make himself outrageously funny. For “Nacho Libre,” in which he plays a cook in a Mexican orphanage who moonlights as ...