‘Dangerous Animals’ Star Hassie Harrison on Ocean Challenges and Surviving a Killer [Interview]

Jai Courtney unnerves as Captain Tucker, a serial killer who ritualistically feeds his prey to sharks in director Sean Byrne‘s Dangerous Animals. The intimidating villain meets his match in Hassie Harrison‘s Zephyr, a tenacious survivor worthy of final girl status.

Dangerous Animals swims into theaters on June 6, 2025, unleashing a twisted battle of wits between predator and prey.

It’s Zephyr’s loner status that puts her in Tucker’s crosshairs, but the killer underestimates just how much fight is in his latest target. For Harrison, a “Yellowstone” actor used to playing characters with grit, Dangerous Animals presented a physical challenge. That’s not just because of the grueling physicality that Tucker’s brand of horror demands but also due to the amount of time Harrison would spend in the ocean when filming in Gold Coast, Australia.

Oh, and it happened to be winter.

“It was very cold,” Harrison tells Bloody Disgusting of the water’s temps during the shoot. “I think that was actually one of the more challenging aspects of filming this. I loved our whole team, our crew, and my director; everyone was so amazing, but that cold. But it was manageable. We did about two and a half weeks of night shoots outside in the winter, being in the ocean at four in the morning, and then there was that cold snap that hit. That’s just one of those things that people always glamorize about being an actor, but it’s also a lot of hard work and being out in the elements.