Cocaine Bear: Alden Ehrenreich & O'Shea Jackson Jr. Talk "Gnarly" Kills and Working With Ray Liotta
57Elizabeth Banks’s star-studded dark comedy, Cocaine Bear, is fast approaching. Since it was first announced, the buzz for Pablo Escobear’s big-screen debut has been nonstop. Not only is the premise pretty far out there and something new for audiences to sink their teeth into, but it also boasts a pretty phenomenal cast. The movie stars Keri Russell, Isiah Whitlock Jr., Margo Martindale, Matthew Rhys, Kristofer Hivju, O’Shea Jackson Jr., Alden Ehrenreich, and the late, Ray Liotta.
Inspired by true events that took place in the mid-eighties, Cocaine Bear gives a blow-by-blow account of the unbelievable mishap… only, with a lot more blood. When a drug runner drops an outstanding amount of cocaine on the aptly-called Blood Mountain in Georgia, a 500-pound black bear ingests a brick of it before it can be picked up. Coked-up, the bear goes on a rampage, leaving a trail of gore in its wake. Unlike what actually happened, if this bear is going down, he’s taking drug dealers, tourists, and cops down with him.
Before Cocaine Bear’s worldwide release in theaters on February 24, Collider’s Steve Weintraub spoke with Alden Ehrenreich and O’Shea Jackson Jr., who play two of the criminals that find themselves directly in the bear’s warpath. During their interview, the duo discusses how the movie lives up to its “zany” premise, the hysterical promotional trail they’ve been on, which kill is the gnarliest, and what it was like working with Isiah Whitlock Jr. and the late Ray Liotta. Jackson teases Season 2 of Swagger and his plans after Den of Thieves 2’s strict regimen, and Ehrenreich talks about working on Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer and getting to talk to Robert Downey Jr. on set before his role in Ironheart.
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