Actor Idris Elba has a new film in which he faces off against a big cat in South Africa. Beast naturally does not feature a real lion for the acclaimed entertainer to match wits with because this would be dangerous. Maybe it was safer, but acting with the lion’s stand-in, Elba said, was absurd work.
Elba made comments about the behind-the-scenes process in which a man in a suit stands in for the final computer-generated creation in a new article published by Digital Spy. He said the lion performer is a lovely fellow, but he could not maintain his composure watching his acting antagonist pretend to growl like a lion even with sound being put in as edits later on. Real animals were used in earlier decades on projects like Roar, but that practice often caused serious injuries to human beings.
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