Emmys: ‘Tiger King’ Directors On Series’ Wild Success, Fictionalized Adaptations And Rumored Siegfried & Roy Spinoff
Matthew Carey Long before Joe Exotic and Carole Baskin became household names, before Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness turned into one of the most successful documentary series of all time, directors Eric Goode and Rebecca Chaiklin embarked on something they little suspected would become a cultural mega-hit.“We sort of thought it was our own little story that maybe a few people would be interested in, and we were certainly fascinated by it,” Chaiklin recalls. “But we never in a million years expected it to be received the way that it was.”Tiger King is part true-crime story, part bizarre slice of Americana involving eccentric people who raise big cats in private sanctuaries.