The new film “Strays” may enlist Will Ferrell, Jamie Foxx, Isla Fisher and Randall Park to “fill in” the personality of its four canine lead characters, but it’s real-life dogs — and an army of tra…
to make sure that they learned the various activities, and behaviors to believably tell the story written by Dan Perrault about a discarded pet who travels cross country with three pals to exact revenge on his owner.
As ominous as that may sound for a film where four dogs appear in virtually every scene, Forbes indicates that’s a consistent foundation for his search during the casting process — to find an animal with the right look that can be trained. Greenbaum says that other than finding a “good-looking foursome” on screen, another priority for him was to find animals whose natural demeanor suited the personality of the character on the page.
Greenbaum says that readying Dolan to play Hunter proved challenging for multiple reasons. “He was only one year old, the youngest of the group,” Greenbaum says. “He would get excited and get what we call the zoomies… tearing around set, 150 pounds, having a blast with his cone on, smashing into C-stands and having fun. We worried if we had to rethink the script or rewrite his character, but ultimately he totally came around and was an incredible performer.
Despite how extensive was Greenbaum and his team’s preparation, Forbes indicates he ran into the same issue as he almost always does once filming actually begins. “It doesn’t matter how many times you tell [the filmmakers], nobody realizes how fast dogs are,” he says.
Without the use of other controllable behaviors such as a human face’s natural expressiveness, walking — and body language in general — also proved to offer an effective window into the emotional state of the dogs as the director drew nuanced performances out of his stars. “Mathilde [de Cagny], who is the main trainer of Reggie, taught him seven or eight different speeds and styles of walking,” Greenbaum says.
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