![]() We looked at so many reference videos, picking and choosing every detail of the bear: the size of its head, its nose, its ears, its eyes, the coloration of its fur, the textures, all of that. How are we going to do that?’ This has to be a documentary about the bear.Īnd the level of detail that went into animating this bear, this incredible lead animator, Carmen Leggiero, who did so much homework on how bears act. You've got to create something so realistic that people think a real bear was on set. They're so used to creating crazy, fantastical worlds in outer space and people flying around. I think they saw it as an opportunity to do really intense, old school CGI. The partnership with Weta, they were great. ![]() And if the bear didn't work, then the movie didn't work. I had no idea while we were making it, if we were going to pull off the bear. What I meant by that was I had to give up control over the lead character of the film. Well, I've said before I thought that this movie was super risky for me. MF: Finally, can you talk about working with Weta to create the design of the bear and developing it to look as real as possible?ĮB: Absolutely. Related Article: 'Call Jane' Interview: Sigourney Weaver and Elizabeth Banks 'Cocaine Bear,' directed by Elizabeth Banks. It's in that space in between where human beings do crazy things in reaction to the bear that I really felt that's where the humor was, that's where the wackiness could live, as long as the characters remained relatable to the audience. Those are very grounded, relatable, emotional storylines that set against the backdrop of the bear. A man who is like, 'I've got to find these drugs or we're going to get killed.' The real story of a guy grieving the loss of his wife, trying to be connected to his best friend again, trying to break away from his father. The real story of a mom just trying to find her daughter. So everything else has to be super grounded. That's such a big, high concept, wild, crazy thing that, actually the way to balance the tone was really to ground everything else. I loved that there was this crazy idea of a rampaging bear on a bender. Because I really felt for that bear, that bear was like collateral damage. I thought, ‘Oh, man, this movie is like a redemption story for that bear.’ This is a way to avenge the untimely death of that bear. At that point I realized, in real life the bear had overdosed on the cocaine and died. Moviefone: To begin with, what was your first reaction when you read a screenplay titled ‘Cocaine Bear’ and learned of the true story it is based on, and as a director, how did you balance the film's different tones of comedy and horror?Įlizabeth Banks: My first thought when reading it was, ‘This can't possibly be based on a true story.’ Then I went down the rabbit hole of investigating what had really happened. ![]() ![]() You can read our full interview below or click on the video player above to watch our interviews with Banks, as well as Keri Russell, O’Shea Jackson Jr. Moviefone recently had the pleasure of speaking with actress and director Elizabeth Banks about her work on ‘Cocaine Bear,’ her initial reaction to the screenplay and the true story it is based on, balancing the movie’s tones of comedy and horror, and working with Weta FX to create the bear.ĭirector Elizabeth Banks' 'Cocaine Bear' opens in theaters on February 24th. (‘ Da 5 Bloods’) as Bob, Christian Convery (‘ The Tiger Rising’) as Henry, Brooklyn Prince (‘ The Florida Project’) as Dee Dee, Jesse Tyler Ferguson (‘ Ice Age: Collision Course’) as Peter, Margo Martindale (‘ Downsizing’) as Ranger Liz, and Matthew Rhys (‘ A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood’) as Andrew C Thornton II. (‘ Obi-Wan Kenobi’) as Daveed, Alden Ehrenreich (‘ Solo: A Star Wars Story’) as Eddie Dentwood, Ray Liotta (‘ Goodfellas’) as Syd Dentwood, Isiah Whitlock Jr. ‘Cocaine Bear’ stars Keri Russell (‘ Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’) as Sari, O’Shea Jackson Jr. The movie follows three different groups, Sari ( Keri Russell), a single mother looking for her daughter ( Brooklynn Prince) and her friend ( Christian Convery) who are lost in the woods, Eddie ( Alden Ehrenreich) and Daveed ( O'Shea Jackson Jr.), two drug smugglers forced by Eddie's father ( Ray Liotta) to recover his missing cocaine, and Bob ( Isiah Whitlock Jr.), the law enforcement officer hot on their trail. In the film, after Thornton's accident and the bear ingests the cocaine, he goes on a killing rampage in a small town in Georgia. Read the Plot What is ‘Cocaine Bear’ about? Inspired by the 1985 true story of a drug runner's plane crash, missing cocaine, and the black bear that ate it, this wild thriller finds an oddball group of cops. 72 R 1 hr 35 min Feb 24th, 2023 Showtimes & Tickets
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