“Welcome to the Dollhouse” director Todd Solondz — whose new film, “Wiener-Dog,” focuses on a dachshund (not Anthony Weiner) — said working with an animal was tougher than expected.
“I wasn’t thinking about the reality of what it was like to work with a dog,” the bespectacled indie director told a crowd at BAM Harvey Theater in Brooklyn. “We had about three or four or five dogs, and they all, every one, were remarkably stupid . . . [They] didn’t understand . . . even ‘stay’ or ‘sit’ . . . anything.”
After using the technique of putting one dog on a treadmill for a scene, “it only took three hours to get about 12 seconds of usable footage.”
The film also stars humans Danny DeVito, Greta Gerwig and Kieran Culkin.