you know I got to see this movie the
other day with one of The Producers on
the show and we went and and saw the
film it is extraordinarily gorgeous I
mean this was shot on location in Africa
is that right very beautiful we were
filming in South Africa and Mozambique
and uh it was it's just gorgeous down
there and I was also lucky enough to
travel to Botswana right on some time
off and so you got you've got a little
down time and did you go on a safari
because people people tell but that's
one thing I've always wanted to to do is
go to Safari yeah I had wanted to as
well and we had my husband Paul was
there with me and we had our turn on the
show many times has been on the show
before and uh we uh we did we went on so
far which is an incredible holiday with
kids I have to say if a bit
nerve-wracking initially really you
think it's good to take kids on Safari
well it's beautiful I mean it's
beautiful it's an incredible experience
it's nerve-wracking in the beginning
because you're in an open top
Land Rover and there are lions and
leopards and cheetahs and all sorts of
dangerous animals see to them it looks
like an ice cream truck is coming
through you know
won't draw too much attention to how
tasty he is right right in the in the
car but it was it was good we had a our
sort of most tense moment with an
elephant actually an elephant with a
lion or you know you think it'd be the
lion or the Tiger but the elephants can
be dangerously scared when they're in
must which is the state that they get
into the Bulls get into when they
basically are so horny that they want to
mate with any female that they see
that's a great that's that's a great
word must I simply must
or they want to fight every male that
they come across and so we came across
an elephant and must and uh he thought
we looked appealing uh and uh all of you
together in a truck looks somehow like a
female elephant to him it's hot and uh
he came charging at us with his huge um
under trunk
ready to go I love the term under trunk
as well
the kids are really it's it's uh I can
imagine that's Mom and we uh we didn't
stick around long enough to see if he
thought we were male or female we
thought we should just flame I think
when a giant elephant's charging you
with his under trunk yeah it's time to
it's time to go it's time to hit the
road are they making noises that sound
like they do actually they make they
have the glands are going and they have
like uh they're wet kind of
yeah and they make noises and right yeah
it's you know it's uh it's uh sorry it's
interesting it raises a lot of questions
with kids you know and eyebrows and
questions oh the kids were with us they
were asking questions and also you know
you find yourself like at four o'clock
in the morning uh getting really excited
when the ranger hears on his
walkie-talkie that there are two lions
mating somewhere so
um you know you start rushing across the
buttswan in Wilderness you know to get
there before it's over and you start
thinking God I'm my kids are are you
know mating is basically a veterinarian
for
having sex yeah and
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basically you know I'm where you know
Paul and I are thinking it's Dawning on
us that we're basically we will soon be
taking our children to a late night
Drive-In live animal sex show yeah you
know so it sounds like they're they're
encouraging that at the at the at the
park they're they're waking you up and
saying two cheetahs are going out let's
go let's go let's go let's go and they
even have a a red filter that they put
over the flashlight so they're bathed
and you know so it's not to break the
mood or anything they're bathed in this
red light and I think would you find
that your kids then later on Were
Somehow affected by not only the
elephant you know charging you in must
but seeing these animals mating were
your kids asking a lot of questions were
they behaving differently later on when
you got back well um
our younger one stellen has uh he's kind
of into Power Rangers and he has this
Lego type um
Power Ranger guy that you build put
together and it has an aerial that's
supposed to go on his shoulder that he
insists on
the elephant connection all right well
we're going to take a little break we
have a lot to talk about uh more with
Jennifer Connelly in just a second
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