Kate Winslet stopped from filming with a mountain lion

Los Angels June 24 (IANS) Actress Kate Winslet was good with shooting a scene with a mountain lion for her new movie The Mountain Between Us but the producers and her husband Ned Rocknroll did not let her go close to the animal.

The 41-year-old will star opposite Idris Elba in plane crash survival story The Mountain Between Us and for one particular scene Winslet s character photojournalist Alex Martin comes face-to-face with a big cat in the wilderness reports dailymail.co.uk.

They never let the lion into the plane while I was in there. I was up for it. But the studio was like No! It is not going to happen Winslet said.

Revealing how her husband thought it was a joke when he saw signs warning the cast and crew that there would be cougars on set she added: It had a warning which read cougars on set today. Nobody wear red. No loud noises. No food or drink on set. He thought it was a joke. And I said It s not a joke. He did not want those lions close to me at all.

The Mountain Between Us is a love story from director Hany Abu-Assad and based on the novel by the same name by Charles Martin.

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