Although it is now when live action movies of The Lion King or The Little Mermaid are being made, where animals play a fundamental role, none of these beings are real, because they are all made by computer to avoid damaging them. But the 90s were another era, as Brendan Fraser recalled, speaking of his worst experience filming George of the Jungle.
And against all odds, it is not the fact that he had to wear a loincloth through San Francisco, but the having had to share a plane with a monkey in full adolescent sexual awakening. This is how Fraser recalled it in an interview with Deadline. “There were real monkeys on the set of George of the Jungle. Mr Binks was real. He was a mischievous little monkey…”
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“Mr. Binks was male, and as all the male monkeys in disney had to wear a little hair bikini not to show his masculinity. The thing is, primates go through a period of adolescence and they become incorrigible, they bite, they scratch… and it’s pretty nasty and terrifying. Mr. Binks was around at the time when we shot and he got overconfident.”
“He used to get angry if the scene didn’t go his way, and since he was trained to whisper in my ear he liked to stick his tongue right up to my eardrum. Sometimes she would get angry, she would rip out her hair bikini and start breaking things for the set. Then his trainer was scolding him like, “No, Mr. Binks, no,” and I couldn’t stop laughing. Never work with animals.”
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Why wasn’t there a Jungle George 2?
Knowing Disney’s passion for sequels, many don’t understand why there was never a sequel to Goerge of the jungle. A question that Adam Sandler wanted to resolve by asking Brendan Fraser directly during a round table organized by Variety. “I remember they proposed to me. And I don’t remember what he was doing at the time.”
“What I do know is that I preferred to do The Quiet American with Michael Caine, and shooting the first Western in history in Vietnam with Phillip Noyce. I always try to choose different roles and I hope that my fans don’t get bored,” explained the protagonist of George of the Jungle, nominated for an Oscar for The Whale.
