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7 unusual facts about Free Willy


CĂșla 4

CĂșla 4 has also dubbed some children's films into Irish including Harry Potter, Jungledyret Hugo, Free Willy.

DIY ethic

The Park appears in the movie Free Willy in 1993 and years after that, in 1999, the park is part of Tony Hawk's Tony Hawk (series) video game.

Free Willy: Escape from Pirate's Cove

Kirra is sent to stay with Gus in his run-down amusement park in Cape Town after her father was hospitalized for six weeks.

However, Willy had under-developed echolocation skills and is unable to survive without his pod, thus making it unsuitable for rehabilitation.

Nigel Robinson

In the 1990s, Robinson wrote novelisations of episodes of The Tomorrow People, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles and Baywatch and the film Free Willy.

Skatepark

Skate parks, related obstacles/ramps and locations designed for extreme sport utilization have made their way into the media over time, such as with the aforementioned Burnside Skatepark being included in the movie Free Willy.

Steinar Bastesen

In 1998, Bastesen made a famous statement saying that the whale Keiko, known from the Free Willy films, should be killed and the meat sent to Africa as foreign aid.


Deborah Spera

Prior to her tenure at Showtime, she was in features at Regency Films and worked on Guilty by Suspicion, JFK, Free Willy, Under Siege and Sommersby.

Oregon Coast Aquarium

The aquarium was home to Keiko, the orca who starred in the movie Free Willy, from January 1996 until September 9, 1998, when he was shipped to Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland.


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