Keri Russell tells beastobsessed why she signed on for CocaineBear and explains what it was like to film the wild movie: “When I read it, I couldn’t believe a studio was going to make this movie. I still can’t. I feel like they might still pull it.”
, was signing on to the movie, too: “We were texting, and she was like, ‘Are you doing this movie?’ I was like, ‘AreRussell’s tickled at the idea that, because she and Martindale had last worked together in something as gripping asassuming it is a similarly dramatic and ultra-serious project. Instead, they would quickly discover a tweaking bear, gratuitous gore, and a conveyor belt of jumpscares and laughs.
The all-important nugget that has become the selling point of the film—bear does cocaine; bear kills people while high—requires a tangle of human storylines in order to make all the attacking and the eating of the people really land. Cue some hiking tourists, criminals on the lam, and park rangers, one of whom is played by Martindale, all dealing with their own interpersonal drama—and all unknowingly being pursued by a ravenous bear fiending for its next victim, hit of coke, or both.
, was brought in to create the bear, who would lovingly become known as “Cokey.” Motion capture artist and stunt performer Allan Henry was on set to play Cokey, so that the actors could react to a character who was both high-as-hell on cocaine and also bear-like.
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