Whether or not or not you bought an in a single day go to from the Easter Bunny, there was a little bit of a deal with in your Netflix basket Sunday morning as a result of the streaming service formally debuted its bonus after-show episode of Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness, titled The Tiger King and I.
The particular is hosted by Joel McHale from his bed room and options digital interviews with a number of of the individuals who appeared within the hit docuseries Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem, and Madness: Erik Cowle, Jeff Lowe and Lauren Dropla, John Reinke, Kelci “Saff” Saffrey, Joshua Dial, John Finlay, and Rick Kirkham. And never solely did it give audiences an opportunity to search out out what’s turn out to be of those individuals following Joe Unique’s incarceration, but it surely additionally taught us fairly a couple of new particulars concerning the Higher Wynnewood Unique Animal Park and absolutely the character who ran it for thus a few years.
Here is what we discovered from The Tiger King and I.
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1. Joe Unique was secretly terrified of tigers. In keeping with producer Rick Kirkham, Joe is definitely “terrified of huge cats” and staged the second when he was proven tussling with two tigers in a cage. “Within the shot that you simply see in there the place he is in with the 2 tigers — the white one and the opposite one — the white one was blind, and the opposite one is on tranquilizers,” he defined. “It is idiotic to assume how he is turn out to be ‘The Tiger King’ when he is so terrified of huge cats.”
2. Duh, that is not Joe Unique singing within the music movies. We kinda already knew this one, however his former husband and “I Noticed a Tiger” music video star John Finlay was pleased to verify as a lot.
3. Everybody was there for the animals and never the proprietor. Joe Unique’s zoo would possibly’ve had some long-timers on workers, a few of whom nonetheless work on the G.W. Zoo, however they positively weren’t there for him. When requested who they have been really loyal to when coming into work every single day, Erik Cowle and Saff have been equally as vehement when saying that it was the tigers they persevered for and never Joe. Saff even mentioned he trusted the tiger who bit his arm to bits greater than Joe Unique. Ouch.
4. There was way more violence in opposition to animals than we noticed on-screen. Cowle, who continues to be the top zookeeper (or as he places, it “main a–hole”) below Jeff Lowe’s possession, mentioned that he had one actual remorse about working for Joe: being the man who lured a number of trusting tigers to the fence in order that Joe may put them down and release the cage area. Jeff Lowe additionally contended that the tigers who have been euthanized have been “wholesome and delightful” and that the killings weren’t justified. In the meantime, Kirkham mentioned he additionally witnessed Joe kill a horse which had simply been dropped off by a girl pleading for him to let it dwell on the zoo grounds, and he mentioned, “I do not care for no person’s animals, and now they’re tiger meat.”
5. Not everybody needs Joe Unique to spend the remainder of his life behind bars. Erik Cowle has some very robust emotions about the potential for Joe Unique ever being launched from jail — “No. Not no, however f– no … he’ll die in there. Good riddance,” he mentioned when requested if he needs to be freed. However Saff appears to assume the sentence is a bit harsh. “I feel justice was served, however I nonetheless do not need to see that man die in jail,” Saff mentioned.
6. They assume Joe Unique was proper about Carole Baskin’s husband. We’ll have to attend for the new ID show to experience a deeper dive into what occurred to Carole Baskin’s lacking husband, however so far as many of the stars of Tiger King are involved, she did precisely what Joe Unique accused her of and killed him off. Joshua Dial, Joe Unique’s former marketing campaign supervisor, additionally maintained that her zoo is not any completely different than the one he spent a lot time at. “They’re the identical. They’re all the identical. All of those animal people are the identical. All they care about is that cash,” Dial mentioned.
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7. A whole lot of them have been completely scarred by their time on the zoo. Dial mentioned that he’s nonetheless trying to hunt counseling after witnessing Travis Maldonaldo’s unintended dying within the workplace, and Kirkham defined that he has recurring nightmares about his time on the zoo, regardless of how a lot distance he places between himself and Oklahoma (he now lives in Norway). Additionally, John Finlay continues to be therapeutic from persevering with to get work to cowl up the stomach tattoo that bore his ex’s identify.
8. They have some fascinating concepts for who will play them within the eventual cinematic re-telling. At this level, there’s little doubt that the story of this zoo will get the silver display remedy if and when Hollywood is again in enterprise, and Joe Exotic reportedly hopes that Brad Pitt might portray him on-screen. That may be a little bit of an ego stretch, however among the different stars have some fascinating dream-casting pitches themselves: John Reinke thinks Matthew McConaughey can be an excellent match for his portrayal; Saff referred to as Johnny Tsunami‘s Brandon Baker his ultimate doppelganger; and Kirkham mentioned he may see Billy Bob Thornton within the position. No matter occurs, completely nobody ought to vet Vince Neil for the position of Erik Cowle anymore as a result of, um, he’s not a fan.
The Tiger King and I is now obtainable to look at on Netflix.
The Tiger King and I