Bear Expert Rates 9 Bear Attacks In Movies And TV, How Real Is It , Insider

Wildlife ecologist Rae WynnGrant rates nine bear attacks in movies and TV shows, such as Cocaine Bear, for realism. WynnGrant breaks down the accuracy of brown bear and grizzlybear attacks, as well as the bears physiology, in The Revenant (2015), starring Leonardo DiCaprio; Game of Thrones S3E7 (2013); Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), with Will Ferrell, Steve Carell, and Paul Rudd; and The Edge (1997), with Anthony Hopkins. She explains the realism of blackbear attacks and behavior in Cocaine Bear (2023) and Backcountry (2014). WynnGrant also looks at Po the giant panda in Kung Fu Panda (2008); the polar bears in The Golden Compass (2007), with Nicole Kidman and Daniel Craig; and the mutant bear in Annihilation (2018), with Natalie Portman. WynnGrant is a largecarnivore ecologist who has been studying bears for the past 13 years. She has a doctorate in