Elizabeth Banks on Making ’Cocaine Bear’ Feel Like a Nature Documentary... on Cocaine

While making ’Cocaine Bear,’ director Elizabeth Banks wanted the bear VFX to feel as realistic as possible. Banks describes the process of working with Weta Worshop, the minds behind the VFX in ’The Lord of the Rings’ trilogy, having a “bear performer“ trained by Andy Serkis on set, and why she hopes the film will make people as scared to go into the woods as they were to go swimming after ’Jaws.’