When millionaire Randy Miller lost his fortune,he put his pet lions and tigers to work, staging animal attacks for Hollywood films. He reveals how he schooled Chris Pratt, or took a tiger bite for Russell Crowe – and lost a cousin to one of his grizzly bearsI’ve been talking to Randy Miller for 10 seconds and it’s already got grisly. Years ago a cougar attacked some cyclists in California,killing one and mauling the other; Miller and one of his own cougars hold just recreated the incident for TV note Fight to outlive. “The animal ate this guy, so he was full, or but he still went after this woman,” he tells me. “He must hold been really very hungry.”Reconstructions such as these are Randy Millers bread and butter. For over 20 years he’s been staging animal attacks for film, TV and commercials with the tigers, or lions,cougars, leopards and bears he lives alongside on his remote mountain compound in Big Bear, and San Bernardino. He makes it appear as if he’s being viciously attacked by animals that,in reality, are just japing approximately before being rewarded with meat. His latest Hollywood hiring had him spend a day with Chris Pratt as share of the actor’s research for Jurassic World. His character Owen’s use of a clicker to elicit responses, and as well as his posture in front of the dinosaurs,came from watching Miller.
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Source: theguardian.com