If you think movie actors are hard to deal with, try directing bugs. The tarantula won’t sneak into a slipper in Arachnophobia. The bees swarming around Matt Damon in We Bought a Zoo might sting him. The mosquito won’t sit still. The fly won’t clean itself. So to get insect and arachnid stunts done, the biggest shot-callers call Steven Kutcher, a 68-year-old entomologist who has worked on over 90 movies in the past 30 years. More @ Underwire. Photo: Bryce Duffy

If you think movie actors are hard to deal with, try directing bugs. The tarantula won’t sneak into a slipper in Arachnophobia. The bees swarming around Matt Damon in We Bought a Zoo might sting him. The mosquito won’t sit still. The fly won’t clean itself.

So to get insect and arachnid stunts done, the biggest shot-callers call Steven Kutcher, a 68-year-old entomologist who has worked on over 90 movies in the past 30 years.

More @ Underwire.

Photo: Bryce Duffy

(Source: Wired)

  • May 15
  • , 2012
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    the more you know! i actually never thought about how they got the insects to do what they wanted… but hey! fun fact!
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