TigerKing directors on 'narcissist' Joe Exotic, the show's LGBTQ themes and animal cruelty
, who is currently serving 22 years for animal welfare charges and the murder-for-hire plot of one of his rivals in the big cat world, Carole Baskin.
“I told Rebecca about this world, primarily the exotic reptile world and the smuggling and the dark underbelly. We decided to dive into that world five years ago and begin filming some of these characters that I had known for many decades,” he tells As they were filming what they thought was going to be a venomous snake sale, they happened upon a snow leopard in the guy’s van.
Although “Tiger King” is centered on Maldonado-Passage, the other people in the big cat world provide equally colorful commentary. Bhagavan “Doc” Antle, for example, runs his own big cat zoo but is also notable for filling that zoo with devoted female employees; Antle says on the show his lifestyle is “complicated.” Meanwhile, entrepreneur Jeff Lowe took ownership of the zoo, now known as the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park, when Maldonado-Passage went bankrupt.
How different was it to convince people like Joe’s ex-husband John Finlay and Cheryl Maldonado, whose son Travis was also married to Joe and accidentally shot himself on Joe’s property, to be involved, given their more emotional connection?I think a lot of these characters are people who are on the fringe, and they haven’t really had a voice in the rest of their lives.
Given that you have people in the docuseries saying John and Travis were not gay, but they were married to Joe, what conversations around their sexuality did you have with John and Travis?Listen, they were in a relationship, whatever that relationship was. They, let’s say, struggled with it. I don’t know if it’s up to us to judge.
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