You’re not going to believe this, but Elizabeth Banks has never done cocaine.
Banks has no such reservations, however, when it comes to filming a giant hairy mammal ingesting a boatload of coke. That is the wild premise of her latest film as a director, “Cocaine Bear.” The dark, R-rated action-comedy is loosely based on the true story of a 175-pound black bear living in the Chattahoochee National Forest in Georgia that, in the mid-1980s, gorged itself on 70 pounds of cocaine dropped in an aerial drug run gone bad. In real life, the bear overdosed and died. But the movie posits a much different scenario, in which the coked-up animal rampages through the woods on a voracious hunt for as much blow as possible. Woe to any humans who get in his way.
Source: Elizabeth Banks on Gory ‘Cocaine Bear’: It Could End My Career – Variety