The woman who acted as the stunt double for the lead character in the 1993 film Free Willy is opening up about what it was like working with a killer whale. Speaking on an upcoming episode of the Est.

In the 1990s, movies featuring unlikely friendships between humans and animals were at an all-time high. Films such as 1995’s Babe, 1996’s Fly Away Home, 1997’s Air Bud, and 1998’s Paulie are just a ...

After helping Free Willy taste freedom, Dave Phillips is working to give two other orcas a life outside captivity, Phillips, a director of the International Marine Mammal Project at Earth Island ...

Free Willy is a classic film even today and features an orphan trying to reunite a killer whale, Willy, with its pod and save ...

It was one of the most unconventional friendships of all time, yet it somehow stole our hearts. Yes, we are talking about the hit 1993 movie Free Willy, which follows an orphan named Jesse (Jason ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. @petite_photographe_animaliere/Instagram, inherentlywild.co.uk The orca Keiko was taken from the ...

Wikie and Keijo, the two remaining captive orcas in France, are set to move soon, but if that move is to a sanctuary is still undecided Kelli Bender is the Pets Editor at PEOPLE. She has been working ...