Paul Rosolie
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And then you can only see that so many times before you start screaming, guys, what are we doing?
And that's how I fell into this role of being like, look, I love these animals.
They have no one else advocating for them.
So we're going to do it.
Oh, I saw it.
I said, I did it.
Yeah.
I mean, I found myself, after we'd started doing research on anacondas, having the adventures first, right?
So we're going out on 10-day expeditions, catching these giant snakes.
And then I started doing a couple of interviews about the conservation, my experiences with local people.
And suddenly I found myself sitting in an office at UTA in LA.
And I'm also like 25.
And so you find yourself in this office where they're going, hey, we'll do a show where you take us into the Amazon and you find anacondas.
And I was like, yes, that would be great.
I could show people the avatar thing.
We could show them these giant snakes and that'll make them come in and watch the show.
And it was like this great plan.
And then we had already started and then they went, you know, that's not good enough.
What if you proved that anacondas could eat a person and you made a suit and you let it eat you?
Let's turn it into a ridiculous stunt.