Elizabeth Banks has joked that her new film Cocaine Bear could be a "career ender".
In an interview with Variety, the actor and director talked about the risk of being involved in such an obscure film, as well as all the preparation she did in order to bring it to life – suffice to say it is pretty nightmare inducing.
"Cocaine Bear is a ginormous risk," she admitted. "It could be a career ender for me!"
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"I don't recommend anyone do this, but if you go down the internet hole of looking at actual animal attacks on humans, it's f**king gnarly," she said. "I love gore. I grew up on Evil Dead. The gore is part of the fun of the ride."
She also talked about focusing on ensuring that the film felt as real as possible — that the only way she believes this movie will work is if the audiences believed that the animal was real.
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"It had to feel like a NatGeo documentary about a bear that did cocaine," she said. "It couldn't be something silly. It couldn't seem animated in any way."
Cocaine Bear is a "character driven thriller" based on a true story of a bear in 1985 that consumed multiple bags of cocaine it found after a smuggler ditched them while parachuting out of a plane.
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The film is directed by Banks and is written by Jimmy Warden, whilst it stars Alden Ehrenreich, The Americans' Keri Russell, the late Many Saints of Newark star Ray Liotta, Modern Family's Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Godzilla: King of the Monsters' O'Shea Jackson Jr and Game of Thrones' Kristofer Hivju.
Also starring are Mrs America's Margo Martindale, Sweet Tooth's Christian Convery, The Florida Project's Brooklynn Prince, American Gods' Kahyun Kim and newcomer Scott Seiss.
Cocaine Bear is out in UK and US cinemas on February 24, 2023.
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