BeforeRockymade him rich and famous , Sylvester Stallone had to sell his beloved bounder , Butkus , for $ 40 for yield intellectual nourishment . However , after sell his iconic screenplay , he bought his good friend back for $ 15,000 . He then regurgitate Butkus as Rocky ’s blackguard in the movie .
In Hollywood, it’s basically a given that actors and directors are going to cast their own kids in their projects. However, some of those “nepo babies” are actually fur babies.
Other times, actors bond with theiranimalcostars so much that they end up adopting them. Then, the first time they met is forever immortalized on film.
Here are 23 celebs who worked alongside their real-life pets onscreen:
1.InBlonde, Ana de Armas playsMarilyn Monroe, and her dog,Elvis, plays Marilyn’s dog, Mafia.
OnLate Night with Seth Meyers , she said , " Andrew , as the corking illusionist that he is , he realize I look like Marilyn Monroe . Obviously , he saw that Elvis was arrant for Mafia , and … he had the idea [ that ] we need Elvis in the film . "
2.Chris Evansmet his dog, Dodger, at an animal shelter where he filmed scenes forGifted.
Sharing a picture of the first instant they met on Instagram , Evans wrote , " I had no design of rescuing a dog that solar day , but the hour I saw him , I know he was coming home with me . "
3.InThe Princess Diaries, Fat Louis was played by four different cats, one of whombelongedto Anne Hathaway.
4.InKeanu, the titular tabby wasportrayedby seven identical shelter kittens, who were trained for the role. Tiffany Haddish, who plays Hi-C, adopted one named Catatonic.
The respite of the cats were adopt as well .
5.While filmingTexas Rising, Brendan Fraser worked with a horse named Pecas. After watching how the other horses bullied Pecas, Fraser decided to take him home. The horse now has a close bond with the actor’s son, Griffin.
Fraser toldGQ , " Without doing too much — what ’s the word ? Anthropomorphic … anthropomorphise … Without pretending that the animate being is a human , he looked like he needed assistant . Like , ' Get me out of here , man . ' "
6.While filming her music video for “ME!” Taylor Swift filmed a scene with a kitten named Benjamin Button. She ended up adopting him.
In thebehind - the - scenes videofor the music video , Taylor sound out , " Whenever I watch the video , I ’ll just be like , ' That ’s the first sentence I see him ! ' "
7.Justin Theroux voices Tramp in the live-actionLady and the Tramp(2019), and his pitbull, Kuma, appears in the pound scene.
In anInstagrampost about the pic , he said , " There are heaps of rescue dogs [ in the film ] . Woohoo ! Including , yours truly … KUMA , who was given a really huge star purpose ( okay , it was teensy , but do n’t say her 😬 ) . "
8.Yvette Nicole Brown, who plays Aunt Sarah inLady and the Tramp(2019), adopted one of the rescue dogs, Harley, from set.
She toldPeople , " [ The trainer ] did n’t just have people grab a firedog . She watched you the entire ladder of the show , and at the end , she pop off , ' I think I have your dog . ' I said , ' Oh ! Who is it ? ' and she says , ' Harley is your dog . ' She was 100 % right . Harley is my dog-iron . I bed him . "
9.OnGame of Thrones, Sophie Turner plays Sansa Stark, and Zunni plays her direwolf, Lady. When the Northern Inuit dog was fired for being a bad actor, the Turner family adopted her.
Turner toldHarper ’s Bazaar , " Zunni was a terrible actor , really bad on curing . She would n’t respond to any of my song , and everyone was ready to provoke her , so we deal her on when I was 14 . She was about three feet tall and pretty handsome . "
10.InA Star Is Born(2018), Bradley Cooper plays Jackson Maine. Since he also directed the movie, he cast his labradoodle, Charlie, as Jackson’s dog, who’s also named Charlie.
Cooper toldEntertainment Tonight , " I never even thought about any other Canis familiaris but him , but you have to alternate through a pot of basketball to be capable to do that . … That ’s the good matter about being able to make a movie , is you get to honk the movie . "
11.Director Kenny Ortega’s dog, Manly,playsSharpay’s dog, Boi, in theHigh School Musicalfranchise.
12.Throughout the filming ofNational Velvet, Elizabeth Taylor, who plays Velvet Brown,kept askingif she could keep King Charles, the horse who plays Pie. On her 13th birthday, studio founder Louis B. Mayer made her wish come true.
13.Amanda Seyfried met Finn, her Australian Shepherd, on set while filming the HBO showBig Love. Now, she ensures that all of her movie contracts allow her to have him on set, unless it would require uncomfortable circumstances for him, like a long flight.
She toldPeople , " As before long as he was mine , like 24 hour after I got him , I realized something about me need him . He completely changed my life history and aid me incur my purdah and my independency . When you have a modus vivendi like I did when I was in my former twenty , there were no constants . "
14.OnHeartland, Amber Marshall plays ranch owner Amy Fleming, and her horse, Talon,playsMonty.
15.Marshall’s dog, Remi,playsGeorgie’s dog onHeartland.
16.And her cat, Mouzer,appearedon an episode where Amy brings home a kitten.
17.While filmingThe Suicide Squadin Panama, David Dastmalchian, who plays Abner Krill/Polka-Dot Man,adopteda stray cat who “kept coming up to the set, wanting to be petted and scratched.” He named her Bubblegum.
He toldVulture , " She was really athirst and really outsmart up . And I fell in sexual love , and now she ’s mine . Well , she ’s not mine , I ’m hers . And when my mammy died , the African tea know when to hail sit in my lick and purr , and she knew when I take to be left alone . My shaver are so insanely robustious , and I love them to death , but my God , they had so much energy to expel during lockdown . And the true cat was so patient with them , and would toy following with them . And she comes when you call her . It was awe-inspiring . "
18.InHidalgo, five horses play the titular character, but the main animal actor was T.J. He bonded so much with Viggo Mortensen, who plays Frank Hopkins, that the actor purchased him after filming wrapped. They even attended the premiere together.
Mortensen toldIGN , " I had no intent of corrupt a horse off of this motion picture . But with T.J. , he was … I do n’t know , I just experience to really , really wish him . He ’s got such a unique , unattackable personality . "
19.Similarly, Mortensen also adopted Eurayus, a horse he rode in theLord of the Ringstrilogy.
He toldIGN , " Even though I was n’t with him all the time , I just developed a genuine good friendly relationship with him . … He kind of come into the movie similar to the fashion I did . You know , did n’t have much preparation and was just thrown in and had to swim , basically . And it was rough on him , and it select a while for us to kind of get in sync and for him to be well-heeled around the curing . So , we get to be close , and I wanted to ride out in touch with him . … We catch through it together and became admirer . "
20.He also adopted Kenny, a chestnut he worked with inThe Two Towers.
He toldIGN , " He was just pretty , and again , it was a situation where we were dash , and they did n’t have the veracious horse , and I say , ' Lemme just take over that one , ' and I aim to one of the wranglers who was riding him . So , I just alternate on him , put a Rohan saddle on him , and I ride him that day , straight off on camera . But he was very easy and relaxed , and I just wanted Eurayus to have a crony . "
21.When Roy Rogers landed his first starring role in the 1938 filmUnder the Western Stars, heneededa horse, so he chose Trigger, who already had movie experience. The studio rented the horse until the actor bought him for $2,500 in 1943. Triggerappearedin all of Rogers’s movies. The horse even got top billing at the actor’s insistence.
The horse was originallynamedGolden Cloud , but he earned the name Trigger because of his quick reactions .
22.After filming wrapped onRocky, Sylvester Stallonekepthis character’s turtles, Cuff and Link. All three of them reprised their roles inCreed II.
23.And finally, beforeRocky, Stallonehadto sell his beloved dog, Butkus, for $40 in order to afford food. However, after selling his iconic screenplay, he bought his best friend back for $15,000. He then cast Butkus as Rocky’s dog of the same name.
In anInstagramtribute to Butkus , he indite , " The new owner know I was heroic , and charged me $ 15,000 . … He was worth every penny ! "
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