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This is Scott Paulin
in one of his earlier roles.
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He's gone on
and done a lot of work since.
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This was tricky to do because you have
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a video which has been done previously.
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You have one set on this floor,
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you have another set which is upstairs
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which has to be entirely secure
because the cat is there,
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and then you have the exterior
that you're shooting in New Orleans.
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So it has to be storyboarded
in some way
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to keep this involved.
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This is the...
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This is, I believe,
the Chinese leopard.
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No, that's the panther because
he had to come out from under the bed.
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When he goes crazy,
that's the Chinese leopard.
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The way they made him go crazy
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is they put air tubes
along the baseboard of the room
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and they would shoot compressed air.
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These tubes would spin
and made a very high-pitched sound
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and that sound would
drive these animals crazy.
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That's how they would aggravate them
and made them active.
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The tendency of a big cat
in a situation like this
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is to go catatonic,
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just get in a corner and hide.
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That won't do, so you need some device
to aggravate them.
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It's the whistling sound that does it.
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The nice thing about
working with animals
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is that you don't have to worry about
talking to their agents