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Director Elizabeth Banks’ Biggest Concern Making 'Cocaine Bear' · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. Elizabeth Banks has already
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  Speaker 1: directed to hit films Pitch Perfect Too and the version
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  Speaker 1: of Charlie's Angels, but her new film takes on a
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  Speaker 1: very different, much more offbeat direction. Cocaine Bear about a
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  Speaker 1: raging black bear quite literally high on cocaine, which is
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  Speaker 1: actually based on a true story, albeit with huge creative license.
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  Speaker 1: And because Elizabeth was making a movie with the premise
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  Speaker 1: that's borderline absurd, it became all the more important to
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  Speaker 1: her that the bear being credibly believable. She tells Variety,
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  Speaker 1: my biggest concern was that the bear be photo realistic.
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  Speaker 1: I really wanted the audience to go along with this story.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't want a single frame to take them out
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  Speaker 1: of the movie. It had to feel like a nat
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  Speaker 1: GEO documentary about a bear that did cocaine. It couldn't
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  Speaker 1: beat something silly. It couldn't seem animated in any way.
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  Speaker 1: We just wanted to make sure it acted like a
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  Speaker 1: real bear. Elizabeth and her team poured over footage to
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  Speaker 1: understand how bears move, look and behave, so when you're
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  Speaker 1: watching the movie, you forget how absurd it all is
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  Speaker 1: and just go along for the ride Cocaine Bear roars
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  Speaker 1: in the theaters February. That's direct from hollywood S