Tiger King’s Carole Baskin has admitted that she feels “nervous” about Louis Theroux ‘s latest BBC documentary.
Shooting Joe Exotic will air on Monday at 9pm and sees 50-year-old Louis revisit his interviews with convicted felon Joe from 10 years ago.
Louis first met Joe back in 2011 when he included him in his documentary, America’s Most Dangerous Pets.
Joe has since found worldwide fame thanks to the Netflix series, Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness, as did Carole Baskin.
Carole is the CEO of Big Cat Rescue and one of the main stars of Tiger King, so it’s only right that Louis spoke to her for his latest film.
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Louis visited Carole and her husband Howard in the US, but not before they asked him to send “samples of his work”.
Speaking exclusively to The Mirror about why she decided to take part in Louis’ new documentary, Carole explained her reasons.
“Back in 2011, he was the first documentarian who actually looked into this big cat crisis in America,” Carole said.
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“And although he did it tongue in cheek, it was really eye-opening to a lot of people and I so appreciated the fact that he made this known because it’s such a horrible situation and we really did need to shine a light on it.
“Sadly, not much came of that, and so if there was any chance of him coming back and now really exposing how cruel the underbelly of this industry is, then we wanted to be a part of that.”
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Carole continued: “He came to the sanctuary and before he came there was a lot of media who reached out to us after Tiger King and we refused to talk to any of them for months.
“And when he reached out to us we felt a little bit differently because of the way he had treated the whole thing back in 2011.
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“But we asked him for samples of his work and we spent a lot of time looking at his different documentaries, and so we kind of knew what to expect as far as his mannerisms.”
Carole added: “I felt like he had dealt pretty fairly with most of the subjects that he had talked about and we felt it was worth the risk, and we won’t know until we see it.”
Unfortunately Carole and Howard haven’t been sent a preview, with the cat lover admitting: “I wish I could see it!”
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Asked if she felt nervous about the documentary and if she trusts Louis, Carole replied: “Well both! We were nervous, but we really feel like he is a man of integrity and that he will treat the issue fairly.
“I’m sure that if we were the people doing the editing, it would be very different than what his edit person is going to do because of the need to attract viewers and such. We’re just all about getting the facts out there.
*Louis Theroux: Shooting Joe Exotic airs Monday 5 April at 9pm on BBC Two.
Originally from https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/carole-baskin-nervous-louis-therouxs-23851199