Meet Rosie!

Tai, from Have Trunk Will Travel, will play the beloved Rosie in Water for Elephants. So, Tai! Let’s see that resume:
BIRTH DATE
1968
WEIGHT:
8,800 pounds
FAVORITE FOODS:
# Bananas
# Carrots
CHARACTERISTICS:
Very intelligent and loves to take naps and play; likes people and every other elephant she sees.

"Water for Elephants" script:

ROSIE THE ELEPHANT: She is gargantuan. Ten feet tall at the

shoulder. Her skin is mottled and cracked from the tip of her

trunk down to her feet. Only her ears are smooth. She has

deeply set, amber eyes with extremely long lashes. She stands

tall behind a rope, chained to a stake in the ground.

Jacob, Marlena, August, Diamond Joe and Greg observe her.

JACOB
She has such long eye lashes.

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From Details.com

...He (Robert Pattinson) tells me an elephant story. Not the one about Barcelona elephants—one about some he'd met recently in California.

"Did you know elephants purr? It's completely scary if you don't know what it is. They purr like cats, but their heads are so deep they sound like velociraptors. You feel it in the ground under your feet. So this big female started sniffing my foot—big female elephant, that is. She sniffed it so hard it came up off the pavement like her trunk was a vacuum cleaner. Then she took my entire body in her mouth. I was holding on to her head, and as I slowly let go she tightened her grip really carefully until I'm just upside down in her mouth and she's going through my pockets with her trunk, looking for peppermints. It was the best day of my life."

So you gave up control to an elephant, got groped, mugged, had your candy tugged at—and it was glorious?

"Yeah. So beautiful you can't imagine. And the baby elephant was so excited that it sprinted out and did its routine in five seconds and then curtsied to everybody. It was actually laughing. Brilliant. Did you know they can also do imitations of other animals? A horse, a chicken, a monkey—these elephants could, anyway. They were movie elephants. One had written a screenplay, and one really wants to direct."

He laughs. He was in Los Angeles, in discussions to star with Sean Penn in Water for Elephants, an adaptation of Sara Gruen's novel. The elephants are actors like him, and he wonders if he might, on some cosmic level, be a bit like them.

"Do you know how they die? The elephant guy told me their molars get ground down from eating wood but regenerate like six times. And after that they slowly starve to death. Which is poignant, but that must also be what gives them time to get to the elephant graveyard. They're incredibly designed creatures. I mean, people hang on way too fucking long. If I knew that when my teeth fell out, that was it . . . Wow. The best day of my life. Beautiful, beautiful day."