by Thinus Ferreira
In a new documentary coming to ID: Investigation Discovery (DStv 171), Surviving Joe Exotic on 11 June at 21:50, the filmmaker Rick Kirkham will reveal more harrowing truths and share his nightmares and the obscene events behind the making of the Netflix docuseries Tiger King.
In the Swedish-produced Surviving Joe Exotic, Rick Kirkham reveals further truths behind his time with the eccentric character of Joe Exotic.
"At first I really liked him. He was such a personality and he was so much fun to be around. But that changed after a few months with him and I started seeing the real Joe Exotic," says Rick Kirkham.
Just months after Rick Kirkham was hired by Joe Exotic to produce his internet show, Rick realised there was no turning back
from the nightmare that was the G.W. Zoo.
He stayed close to a year recording
and documenting the fellowship between all the misfits and their caring for the
animals. The material he collected while being at the Zoo was unique and he
knew it would be invaluable for his own reality show.
After a quarrel with Joe Exotic, all of this
material was lost in a suspected arson, and after another fire in his new home, Rick Kirkham chose to flee far from Joe Exotic and leave the United States.
He sought
protection in Bodø in northern Norway, where he now lives together with his
Norwegian wife. This is his last interview about what really happened during
the nightmare he and others endured at the G.W. Zoo.
Now in Surviving Joe Exotic, Rick
Kirkham will tells his incredible and uncensored story one last time. "It's a moving and unbelievable story," says Ulrika Bokstad, executive producer
at Discovery Networks Sweden.
Surviving Joe Exotic contains never-before-seen material, produced by the Swedish production company Nexiko which will be shown worldwide on Discovery's linear TV channels.
ALSO READ: INTERVIEW. Filmmaker Rick Kirkman on his Surviving Joe Exotic TV special on Investigation Discovery: 'I had much worse video and a whole lot worse things occurred at the zoo that never made it to air.'
