Jodie Foster
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So that's the part that I remember.
I don't remember the work particularly as being intriguing.
Yeah, it was an accident.
I was working with a lion who I loved and worked with every day.
It was an old lion, had no teeth.
very old, on a Disney movie.
And they kept them in zoo structures at night, but they hadn't put enough security on them.
So kids at night, in the middle of the night, would come and shoot BB guns at the lions.
There were two other lions.
One was a stand-in lion, and one was like a stunt lion.
So they let the— Were they in the union?
There's a whole animal training thing that we do in the film business.
And so the trainer couldn't get the old lion to work, so he just wouldn't move.
And you can't make a 500-pound lion do anything.
So they got the stand-in lion, and the stand-in lion worked all day.
And we were ending the day going up a hillside.
I think they might have been tugging him with a – guiding him with a piano wire, which is a thin filament.