


(Watch our video interview above.)Įven before the attack, Derek had a premonition that this particular lion might be trouble.

Only the last-minute intervention of Tarzan himself (played by Miles O'Keefe) prevented disaster. Released in theaters 40 years ago this month, the film includes a scene where Derek's Jane is attacked by a lion while bathing on a tropical beach.īut as the actress and international sex symbol tells Yahoo Entertainment, her co-star went seriously off-script during the shoot, and tried to maul her for real. But real life and reel life collided in dangerous fashion on the set of 1981's Tarzan, the Ape Man, starring Bo Derek as the King of the Jungle's better half. As Tarzan's longtime companion, Jane Porter is no stranger to perilous animal encounters within the pages of Edgar Rice Burrough's popular novels or their many screen adaptations.
