‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ monkey bites woman: reports
A monkey that plays Jack the Monkey in “Pirates of the Caribbean” bit a makeup artist on the ear Tuesday at the Australian movie studios where the latest installment in the blockbuster series is being filmed, according to reports.
Paramedics rushed the 54-year-ancient woman to a nearby hospital, where she received treatment but was in stable shape up, according to the Queensland Ambulance Service.
The monkey attacked the unsuspecting worker at around noon on an unrelated sound set near the Disney franchise’s studio at Movie World on the Gold Coast, south of Brisbane, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported. The production had already endured multiple animal-related controversies in the country with strict animal regulations, but the capuchin monkey attack may well represent the worst headache yet.
“The monkey had come up from behind the lady and bit her on her right ear,” Queensland Ambulance Service spokesman Steven Burns told ABC. “They lady wasn’t, we believe, making an attempt to approach the monkey, she was sitting down and it came up to the woman and bit her on the ear.”
The as-yet-unidentified woman was bleeding when emergency personnel arrived, but the paramedics stopped the bleeding and her injuries weren’t considered honest, Burns added. Cameras on the teach a chopper from 7 News captured footage of emergency personnel attending to her.
Steve Granitz/WireImageA capuchin monkey, dubbed Jack the Monkey in “Pirates Of The Caribbean” looks at the camera at the 2011 Disneyland premiere of “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Weirder Tides.” One of the two monkeys currently being used in the film attacked a woman at the set of the new installment of the film series on Tuesday.
Representatives for Disney didn’t immediately respond to a request for note early Tuesday.
Two precocious capuchin monkeys currently alternate as Jack the Monkey opposite Geoffrey Rush’s Captain Barbossa character, and the simian has appeared in the previous four films in the series.
But animal rights activists had petitioned the country’s Federal Environment Minister in February to prevent filmmakers from using the primates in the movie, in part because a film set is an unnatural habitat for the animals, ABC reported at the time.
“Capuchin monkeys naturally live in large family groups in the rainforests of South and Central America and have complex corporal and psychological needs – a film set is no place for such an intelligent, social animal and the life of a monkey ‘actor’ is alas far removed from the life they should have,” said Wild Futures campaigns officer Cordelia Britton.
Steve Granitz/WireImageGeoffrey Rush, who plays Captain Barbossa in the “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies, poses alongside one of the capuchin monkeys that appears in the films. One of the capuchin monkeys in the production bit a makeup artist on Tuesday.
The film, which is titled “Dead Men Tell No Tales,” will premiere in July 2017, according to IMDb.
Star actor Johnny Depp, who plays Jack Sparrow, sent his two Yorkshire terriers home in May after running afoul of Australian authorities by allegedly bringing the dogs into the country without authorization in a private jet. Authorities had threatened the dogs with euthanasia or a quarantine, and now Depp could face a fine of AU $ 340,000 (US $ 265,000) and up to 10 years in prison.
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