Why Hollywood’s Animal Actors Can’t Find Work

Rocco may not have booked a film or TV gig in a few years, but he keeps busy. He still picks up the occasional commercial, keeps fit, stays social and spends his days in a bucolic valley about an hour north of Los Angeles. On this unusually breezy afternoon in July, he’s messing around with his longtime companion Porter when a new arrival disrupts the calm and things quickly devolve into a chaotic round of chasing and tug-of-war.

Which is what happens when you introduce a green plush alligator toy to an energetic Saint Bernard-boxer mix.

Rocco may not have booked a film or TV gig in a few years, but he keeps busy. He still picks up the occasional commercial, keeps fit, stays social and spends his days in a bucolic valley about an hour north of Los Angeles. On this unusually breezy aftern