Ferrets starring in the film "Inkheart" :-)

Well I think I will be making a point to watch Inkheart when it hits the silver screen, just to see how the ferret looks in its make up!

If you read the full article, you’ll see that the ferret is going to be sporting a pair of horns in its role as a marten. Mmmm, should be fun to see how that makes it look. I only hope it won’t give ferrets a bad image!

Fans of the fantasy novel Inkheart may wonder what this story is about.

There’s no ferret in the book. There is, however, a marten.

To create the marten for the film, animal trainer Sally Jo Sousa used our world’s ferrets and just dressed them up. Since she had to use multiple ferrets for different actions, there had to be an easy to apply costume to make them all look like the same marten.

Set Visit: Ferrets in Inkheart

“We needed to find something that we could put on them uniformly that would be non toxic to them and wouldn’t be a trying thing for us to put on them every day, that would be stress-less work,” said Sousa.

“So what we came up with was just basic mascara. It’s brown mascara so right before his shots, any time we’re going to go to shoot, we basically just paint and just put it on. And the good thing about mascara is it’s tried and tested, it’s not dangerous to the eye for humans. So we know that it’s not going to be dangerous to him. But every couple weeks or so, we’ll give him a bath in Johnson’s Baby Shampoo because they are like a cat. They like to be clean and this does make their hair sticky so we take care of their needs that way.”

CanMag- Ferrets of Inkheart

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