How two documentarians turned a look into the wild life of a wildlife enthusiast into Netflix’s latest big hit
“We started in the world I knew best, which was underground reptile smuggling in South Florida,” explains Goode, a former nightclub owner/Madonna cohort, who is also the founder of the Turtle Conservatory. “We were looking at the pathology of people that engaged in these subcultures, whether it’s reptiles or bird people or primate people. What fascinated Rebecca and I was theaspect, where the people are almost more interesting than the exotic animals they’re keeping.
In fact, the directors benefitted enormously from their primary subject’s penchant for documentation, much like Werner Herzog did with 2005’sabout the life and death of Timothy Treadwell. Exotic was filmed constantly by various boyfriends and employees — a collection of drifters and ex-cons — for his nightly web series, which he largely used as a platform to harass and physically threaten Baskin.
“Eric was super fluent in their language and their world and so we had this incredible access,” says Chaiklin. “He was able to gain their trust and get us into places that PETA had been trying to get into for 10 years.” Most of the properties feature signage with guns that warn “We don’t call 911.” “Many of these places never really showed us fully their entire operations,” Goode says. “We would go to Doc Antle’s, but we were never allowed in the area where the animals are caged and kept.
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