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Were Those Giraffes in 'The Last of Us' Real? · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Did anybody who hasn't
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  Speaker 1: finished Season one of HBO max is smash post apocalyptic
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  Speaker 1: drama the last of us B four one. There are
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  Speaker 1: minor spoilers ahead. As the season finale aired, a raging
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  Speaker 1: debate and student living rooms across the country focused on
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  Speaker 1: one simple question. Were those real life giraffes in a
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  Speaker 1: scene taken from the video game the show was based
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  Speaker 1: on the lead character, Ellie and Joel feed giraffes. The
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  Speaker 1: thing is, giraffes are famously untrainable, but those were in
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  Speaker 1: fact quite real animals, though the decision to use them
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  Speaker 1: didn't come without its challenges. Production designer John Payno explains,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure our visual effects supervisor could have made CGI
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  Speaker 1: giraffes if we had the time. So we needed to
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  Speaker 1: see if we could acclimate a giraffe to strangers feeding it.
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  Speaker 1: The trainers worked for a month and a half to
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  Speaker 1: get them to eat out of a stranger's hand, so
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  Speaker 1: when Ellen Joel walk up, it would eat those branches
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  Speaker 1: of food. Hollywood Magic isolated the giraffes and put them
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  Speaker 1: on our set. It was probably the most complicated piecing
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  Speaker 1: of VFX stage, scenery and location I've ever worked on,
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  Speaker 1: the last of US HBO Max. Now that's direct from Hollywood, raided,