To film his enlightened nature drama Two Brothers, Jean-Jacques Annaud let the tigers run free on the set in Cambodia.
The humans -- the French filmmaker and his cast and crew, including Guy Pearce -- spent almost nine months in cages whenever the real stars of the picture were roaming about in a huge compound surrounded by safety netting. Under a trainer's supervision, the tigers did what tigers do while Annaud observed and cameras rolled. Authentic animal behaviour was captured while a fictional story involving humans was constructed around them.
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