He’s gonna need a much bigger apology note.
Steven Spielberg admitted he regrets the bloody impact his 1975 blockbuster “Jaws” had — on the shark population, that’s.
“I really and to at the present time regret the decimation of the shark population due to the book and the film. I actually, truly regret that,” Spielberg, 75, said during an interview with Lauren Laverne on the BBC’s “Desert Island Discs.”
Laverne asked the director the way it felt to be stuck on an island surrounded by sharks, prompting the three-time Oscar-winning director to reply, “That’s one among the things I still fear,” in accordance with the Sunday Times of London.
“To not get eaten by a shark,” he clarified, “but that sharks are someway mad at me for the feeding frenzy of crazy sports fishermen that happened after 1975.”
The Oscar-winning thriller, based on the best-selling novel of the identical name by Peter Benchley, tells the story of a man-eating great white shark that was devouring residents of the fictional Amity Island in Latest England.
Researcher George Burgess told the Florida Museum in 2016 that soon after the movie was released, sharks had a goal on their fins.
“When the movie got here out, there was a collective testosterone rush that went up and down the East Coast of the US,” he said, explaining fishermen thought catching a trophy shark was a approach to showcase their bravery, while tournaments began popping up for catching sharks.
Benchley had previously shared his regrets over writing the novel, which sold an estimated 20 million copies, in accordance with The Independent.
“What I now know, which wasn’t known once I wrote Jaws, is that there isn’t any such thing as a rogue shark which develops a taste for human flesh,’’ the creator told the Animal Attack Files in 2000. “Nobody appreciates how vulnerable they’re to destruction.’’
He’s gonna need a much bigger apology note.
Steven Spielberg admitted he regrets the bloody impact his 1975 blockbuster “Jaws” had — on the shark population, that’s.
“I really and to at the present time regret the decimation of the shark population due to the book and the film. I actually, truly regret that,” Spielberg, 75, said during an interview with Lauren Laverne on the BBC’s “Desert Island Discs.”
Laverne asked the director the way it felt to be stuck on an island surrounded by sharks, prompting the three-time Oscar-winning director to reply, “That’s one among the things I still fear,” in accordance with the Sunday Times of London.
“To not get eaten by a shark,” he clarified, “but that sharks are someway mad at me for the feeding frenzy of crazy sports fishermen that happened after 1975.”
The Oscar-winning thriller, based on the best-selling novel of the identical name by Peter Benchley, tells the story of a man-eating great white shark that was devouring residents of the fictional Amity Island in Latest England.
Researcher George Burgess told the Florida Museum in 2016 that soon after the movie was released, sharks had a goal on their fins.
“When the movie got here out, there was a collective testosterone rush that went up and down the East Coast of the US,” he said, explaining fishermen thought catching a trophy shark was a approach to showcase their bravery, while tournaments began popping up for catching sharks.
Benchley had previously shared his regrets over writing the novel, which sold an estimated 20 million copies, in accordance with The Independent.
“What I now know, which wasn’t known once I wrote Jaws, is that there isn’t any such thing as a rogue shark which develops a taste for human flesh,’’ the creator told the Animal Attack Files in 2000. “Nobody appreciates how vulnerable they’re to destruction.’’
