The co-directors of TigerKing reveal at last who Joe Exotic himself hopes will play him in the Hollywood version
Love it, hate it, or somewhere in-between, it's been virtually impossible lately to avoid the freakish, peer-through-the-fingers world ofThe seven-part Netflix docuseries about the illicit world of private zoos and big-cat breeders debuted March 20 amid the COVID-19 lockdown.
Your background in turtle conservancy — was that an aid to you in getting these people to open up? What was the pitch to get them involved? GOODE: We knew that we didn’t want to make a film that was strictly advocacy and that was depressing. The bludgeoning or the torture of these animals — people have a low tolerance for that. And in other films that have been successful — even that won an Oscar — it’s hard to watch the killing of dolphins.
CHAIKLIN: I would just add very quickly that Carole’s doing a lot of good work in terms of raising public awareness around the fact that when you pet cubs you’re contributing to a puppy mill of tigers. The puppies can only be used from four to 12 weeks, maybe 16 weeks, and then they become unusable for the public to touch them and they become very expensive.
CHAIKLIN: No. He’s incarcerated and right now he’s been put into isolation for COVID-19, so he actually is not available. He’s been cut off from phones but Joe is somebody who has always wanted to be a star, and so he’s very excited for this to have captured people’s attention the way it did.GOODE: He was transferred to a federal penitentiary in Texas and they had to put him in isolation when that transfer took place.
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