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It must have been like a child actor dog or something like that
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Really obnoxious with a stage mom. Brutal. I have worked with birds
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I did a movie about a magpie. But the bird would interchange
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The bird would get annoyed and tired. And, you know, so we would have to have backups
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We did have a backup for Bing, but we never used him
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I think maybe once for a big old wide shot or something
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So this was definitely the most, the closest I've had in terms of connecting with an animal one-on-one
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Yeah, I worked with an elephant once who had done a few movies
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And so she had experience and was a very seasoned professional. But was incredibly professional
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You would say, you know, the assistant director was. would say, that's a rap for the day, meaning the end of the day
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And she knew. She would already be on her way. She'd move before anyone. She knew when it was over before anyone
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It was halfway to her trailer. She already had her martini in her house
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She had a martini ready in her trailer. But it was also, it was a great experience
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one of the best experiences I've ever had in the movies working with this elephant. She was beautiful, intelligent, and emotionally supreme
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Well, it's famously more difficult. I definitely run into trouble with animals before where the old saying is absolutely true More time more money you know And going into this when I read it I was incredibly moved by the story the conceit of the story
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But how would it possibly be, how could we do this? It doesn't, I just can't imagine that they can get everything out of the animal that's on the page
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But then we were told that the animal had been found and they was absolutely
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going to be able to rise to all of these challenges. And he did exactly what was on the page and then even more
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We had some really wonderful surprises along the way too. Yeah, I've never had any of the trouble
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Although there was the second dog in the movie was trouble. Yeah
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The lead actor was great, but the second dog was uncontrollable. It was like a mad dog
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It was one-fifth of the size of the other dog. and couldn't have been more of a pain
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It must have been like a child actor dog or something like that
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Really obnoxious with a stage mom. Brutal. Just brutal. Go ahead. You think about this more than I do. No
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An actor, I think I would leave a turtle. It's easy to, or fish
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The people I know are kind of slow-moving, quiet, forget to eat meals every once in a while
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and can sleep, go dormant for long periods of time. and kind of put their head inside of their shelf for long periods
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I think that's what I would leave to my people
