August 19, 1996
BEVERLY HILLS -- Those dreaded animal co-stars.

Eric Stoltz is still limping from his encounter with a pair of porto spiders.

Stoltz, Jon Voight and Jennifer Lopez had invaded the spiders' Amazon domain to film their new giant snake thriller Anaconda.

"I was feeling a bit too invulnerable. I was walking around barefoot all the time," admits Stoltz.

"A pair of spiders bit me. One on each foot.

"My feet swelled up and I got these dreadful boils that had to be lanced.

"After that, I couldn't wear shoes, so they had to film me from the knees up."

Stoltz is back in L.A. filming in simulated jungles.

He'll also be at the Toronto Film Festival next month to promote two of his new independent films -- the musical Grace Of My Heart and the detective thriller Two Days In The Valley.