"The Revenant" (directed by Oscar winner Alejandro González Iñárritu) picked up five trophies at the British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards on Sunday night, including an award for the sound edits in the movie. Part of what helps a movie envelope you in fantasy is the ability to make you feel like you are there with sights and sounds. What might surprise you are the sources for the bear's noises that make fantasy a reality to your senses.
And yet, in the Twitterverse, this happy bear is getting the credit.
I'm serious when I say I hope the bear in "The Revenant" wins the Oscar for best actor. pic.twitter.com/uIAqvKNRVA
— Hannah Rublidoo (@rubilatedeo) February 3, 2016
"There was no bear ever on set," stuntman Glenn Ennis told Global News. "The closest a bear ever got to set (that we knew of) was at the Calgary Zoo."
Stuntman Glenn Ennis was wearing the blue bear suit used in The Revenant when Leo is brutally attacked by the beast pic.twitter.com/AYTaNhRfIe — Sidonie Sawyer (@sid131313) January 22, 2016
"If you notice the bear head in the picture, they wanted the bear mouth to be right on his lower back. I was supposed to grab his jacket with my hand to make it look like the bear's jaws were pulling it," Ennis told Time. In order to have the bear's jaw in the small of his back, basically my face was in his butt. My face was in Leo's butt for a fair bit of time. I can see how that's someone's fantasy, but it wasn't mine!"
