Do you remember that scene in “Semi-Pro” where Will Ferrell’s character wrestles a bear in hopes of increasing audience attendance for his pathetic basketball team the Michigan Tropics?
It’s a funny scene in an otherwise mirthless and forgettable film.
But yeah, so that Grizzly bear just killed someone, namely the trainer that worked with the animal on the set of the Ferrell comedy.
Ferrell actually (almost, not really) had a brush with death.
“You know, honestly, it was very sad,” the “Semi-Pro” star told MTV in an uncharacteristically somber moment. “I feel for the trainer and his family. It was kind of a tough situation, obviously, for him and that profession and that sort of thing, and I was shocked.”
You knuckleheads! Two words people: Timothy Treadwell.
Ferrell says, don’t worry, I was the star, I was in my trailer anytime that bear was around. “I was never in the same vicinity of the bear when we shot the movie,” he said.
Figures…
