Amy Adams is all set to return to the big screen with the upcoming horror comedy, Nightbitch. As in the title, the actress shot the film with dogs, and she freaked them out on the sets.

While making an appearance at the Toronto Film Festival with the writer-director of the movie, Adams shared that the dogs were quite riled up, making the crew halt the shoot in between. The premiere of the film was held at the Princess of Wales Theater, and post-screening, the duo discussed the aspects of the movie, which also included 12 dogs. 

In conversation with the audience at the theater, Marielle Heller, the screenwriter, revealed that the Leap Year star practiced the scene with dogs over and over again with trainees around. However, during the actual shoot, the dogs were scared of the actress and kept on lunging at her. 

Heller shared, “There’s a scene where Amy walks down the steps to all the dogs in the yard, and we’d practiced with the trainers over and over again: She’s going to walk on this step and walk down, and you’ll all start swarming around her. We did it over and over and over again.”

She further added, “Of course, Amy is acting when she does it, so she’s doing this weird looking at the dogs [thing], and the dogs freaked out and started lunging at her.”

Jude Law is best known for playing Albus Dumbledore in Fantastic Beasts and Dickie Greenleaf in the Oscar-nominated 1999 film The Talented Mr. Ripley, among other roles. The actor recently starred in Ron Howard’s thriller Eden, which centers around European settlers desperately seeking change, turning their backs on society to create a new life on a previously uninhabited island in the Galápagos.

Law portrays Friedrich Ritter, a doctor living with his wife, played by Vanessa Kirby, on the isolated island before the settlers arrive. In one scene, Law goes completely nude, taking a creative leap of faith for the role. However, he wasn’t the only one to take bold risks. During Eden’s premiere at the Toronto Film Festival, Law spoke about the scene during a Q&A session moderated by Cameron Bailey.

Law revealed that the film’s genre required the entire team to stay on their toes and be open to taking bold risks. “We all had to be audacious,” he said, admitting that he “probably required a little more audacity” than the others.

He further elaborated that, for him, the most challenging part of the scene was finding fluidity in his movements while walking—especially being naked. However, he credited the camaraderie between his co-stars for helping create the carefree and nonchalant feel in their performances. “There was something enticing about being in an ensemble,” he recalled.

“In the beginning, we were all asking, ‘How far are we going to go?’ It’s a lovely and fluid game of trust and chance,” he added. The star-studded ensemble also includes Ana de Armas, who plays a self-proclaimed heiress, and Sydney Sweeney, who portrays German housewife Margret Wittmer, relocating with her husband and experiencing a bizarre birth scene while fending off feral animals.

Ron Howard, director of A Beautiful Mind and The Da Vinci Code, has high expectations for Eden, which is based on real events. According to Howard, the film surpasses anything he’s done in terms of style and tone. Beyond being a survival story, Eden explores the complex dynamics of love and family.

“As dark and bizarre as the story is, we prove that survival of the fittest is connected to love and family. It’s a family story! Parenthood to Eden… don’t you see it?!” he said. Eden is set to release on September 7, 2024.