He’ll need a much bigger letter of apology.
Steven Spielberg has admitted he regrets the bloody impact his 1975 hit “Jaws” had – that’s, on the shark population.
“I actually regret the decimation of the shark population due to book and the movie to at the present time. I actually regret it,” Spielberg, 75, told Lauren Laverne on the BBC’s Desert Island Discs.
Laverne asked the director what it was wish to be stuck on an island surrounded by sharks, prompting the three-time Academy Award-winning director to answer, “It’s one among the things I’m still afraid of,” based on London’s Sunday Times.
“To not be eaten by a shark,” he explained, “however the sharks are someway mad at me for the mad sports fishermen’s food craze that happened after 1975.”
Based on Peter Benchley’s best-selling novel of the identical name, this Oscar-winning thriller tells the story of a man-eating great white shark that devoured the inhabitants of the fictional Recent England island of Amity.
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Researcher George Burgess said the Florida Museum in 2016 that shortly after the discharge of the film, the sharks had a goal on their fins.
“When the movie got here out, there was a collective surge of testosterone that went up and down the East Coast of the USA,” he said, explaining that fishermen thought catching the trophy shark was a method to showcase their bravery, while catching tournaments began popping up sharks.
Benchley had previously regretted writing the novel, which has sold around 20 million copies, based on The Independent.
“Now I do know what wasn’t known once I wrote Jaws is that there is no such thing as a rebellious shark that develops a taste for human flesh.” the writer told Animal Attack Files in 2000. “Nobody realizes how vulnerable they’re to destruction.”