Kurt Russell’s son Wyatt was confronted by a bear while filming their present: ‘Great first day’

Wyatt Russell, Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn’s son, revealed he had a run-in with a bear on his first day taking pictures the collection “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.” He costars on the present together with his well-known father. 

“They sent us down this trail ‘cause we’re going to start 100 yards down the trail ’cause we’re going to walk up wearing these gas masks. And I have a gun on, and you’re looking, whatever, Indiana Jones cool,” Wyatt defined to Hoda Kotb on “Today” Wednesday. 

He stated proper after “action” was yelled, somebody stated, “‘Is that a bear?’ I’m like, ‘Huh?’ And I look behind me, and there’s a bear like 20 yards away. And I was like ‘Uh, go away, bear, go away!’ And make yourself big,” he laughed, elevating his arms. 

He stated his first response was to succeed in for his prop gun. 

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Wyatt Russell had a shut name with a bear while taking pictures “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters” together with his dad, Kurt Russell.  (Eric Charbonneau/Getty Images for Apple TV+)

“And, I’m like, ‘The gun doesn’t fire. This doesn’t work,'” he stated. 

Russell stated, regardless of his efforts, the bear began strolling towards him till a grip blew an airhorn and scared the animal off. 

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“Good first day,” he joked with Kurt, who was sitting subsequent to him in the course of the interview. 

On the present, Kurt and Wyatt play youthful and older variations of the identical character, and it was the first time they’ve labored collectively as adults. 

Wyatt Russell is the son of Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell.  (Al Pereira/Getty Images/Michael Ochs Archives)

“We looked at a lot of father-son things and nothing really struck our fancy,” Kurt stated of looking for the suitable challenge. “It was fun to work together before things started ‘cause pre-production was going, ’We need to make a character that’s interesting and fun and watchable and has an arc.'”  

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The solid of “Monarch: Legacy of Monsters.”  (Eric Charbonneau/Getty Images for Apple TV+)

Kurt advised Fox News Digital final month they labored on the character for a while “because it wasn’t written for us, it was just a casting idea.

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“I had a time off. I stated, ‘I’d higher go see him [Wyatt], I’d higher go watch him. What I discovered was — all I can say is it was not solely — I do not wish to really feel aid, however it was like, ‘He’s good, he is actually good, and I see what he is doing. And I see what I can do to fall into that rhythm a little higher than I was doing and what I’d have accomplished.”