In movies like “Marley & Me”, “Rescued by Ruby”, “Beethoven” etc, how do they get the animals to cooperate/act? Is it not confusing for the animals being called names on set that are not their real names in real life?
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A lot of these animals are trained actors. There are animal trainers in Hollywood who select animals with certain abilities and then train these further to make acting animals. In addition to tricks that might be seen on film they train on things like ignoring distractions, including being spoken to by other actors, and memorizing sequences of tricks and cues. So the animal might not even pay attention to the actor talking to them but rather focus on their trainer off-screen. Or they might even have been taught to listen for a specific cue from the actor and then react to that with a specific trick. This specific training to follow the script could have taken place right before the scene was filmed as these animals are trained to pick up these things very fast.
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