ANIMALS ARE POWERFUL
If you interview Christopher Walken in Morocco, he may well explain how to shave an elephant.
Jean-claude Van Damme sniffs the air like a dog at night because he’s from the streets.
Dolph Lundgren is quite happy to cuddle ginger kittens in the Empire office if he happens upon promotional activity for Puss In Boots.
Brian Blessed might be delayed for an interview if a Shetland pony gets into his kitchen and defecates all over the place.
If you interview Anthony Hopkins on set of The Wolfman, he’ll talk to you for an hour in full werewolf costume.
Paul W.S. Anderson brings his dog on set with him. Every day. It is a giant Schnauzer called Cromwell. He (the dog) just wanders around, off the leash, sniffing everyone.
Grace Jones is scared of moths. More specifically, “a moth”. You can ask anybody who knows her.
If you allow goats into your office to promote The Men Who Stare At Goats, they will eat the carpet. Resulting in animals being banned from the building.
For Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade, 8,000 rats were individually washed.
Before filming that rats sequence, Steven Spielberg asked the trainer to bring 100 of them to set, then asked him to prove that they could swim as, “I don’t want one drowned rat.”
The cockroaches for Indiana Jones And The Temple Of Doom were sourced from the rubbish tips of Delhi.
Sean Connery really hated spiders.
It is unwise to ask David Attenborough if he once stood on an anteater.
On Jean-jacques Annaud’s The Bear, Bart The Bear’s daily diet included 15 chickens, two salmon and “all the marshmallows he could stomach”.
Michael Bay had a dog called Bonecrusher.
Carey Mulligan has a dog named Rambo. She’s never seen Rambo. She just thinks it’s a funny name.
When Patrick Swayze was tired, he’d exclaim, “I’m a fried puppy!”
When he was a kid, Joel Edgerton’s brother convinced him to put his finger inside a dead fish’s mouth, in Fiji.
Robin Williams did a superb impression of a stressed-out ferret.
Sam Neill has a rooster named Michael Fassbender. And a cow named Helena Bonham Carter.
As a child, Jennifer Hudson used to talk to ants. They were her best friends.
As a child, Evangeline Lilly used to eat ants. They taste of lemon.
Robert Rodriguez had a cat named Sin Kitty.
Milla Jovovich has never killed a wasp.
Sylvester Stallone can never remember the words to ‘Eye Of The Tiger’. “‘Rising up’... that’s it!”
David Duchovny does a startlingly good impression of a goat bleating.
If your dog defecated human vomit, no-one would have a dog. That’s what Jamie Bell says.
Minnie Driver chatted to a stranger’s dog and didn’t realise it belonged to Joni Mitchell until she looked up. She wanted to tell Mitchell how much she meant to her, but instead recommended dog-worming treatment.
Liam Neeson has watched Jaws more than any other film, “even though I know the shark’s fucking rubber”.
It’s easier to work with Huskies than Dobermans, according to Charles Dance.
Nicolas Cage holds snakes to relax.
When Arnold Schwarzenegger was on medication to stop smoking so many cigars, he had wild dreams. “There were killings involved and there were lions.”
Quentin Tarantino isn’t keen on being photographed with doves. Or chickens. Especially chickens.
David Lynch talks to the birds that come to visit him. He feeds them pumpkin seeds.