The footage seen in the TMZ video was taken after someone requested that Hercules jump in from the other side of the pool, according to both Mr. Polone, a vegan who said his will was set up to donate all of his money to animal charities when he dies, said Hercules was eager to swim during rehearsal, at one point “desperate to jump in.” The dog had to be held back by a trainer so he wouldn’t go in too soon, he said. Polone said he was not present for the scene but had watched unedited footage of the day’s filming. Several of the association’s findings were echoed by Gavin Polone, the film’s producer, in a column in The Hollywood Reporter, and by Birds and Animals Unlimited on its website.

The American Humane Association, which monitors animals on movie sets and had a representative present during filming, said on Tuesday that the video was “misleading and edited.” Production was stopped after Hercules showed signs of stress, and he was not forced to swim, it said. Hercules was supplied and trained by Birds and Animals Unlimited, a company that frequently works with the film industry. The German shepherd, a 2-year-old named Hercules, is now “happy and healthy,” Amblin Entertainment, the film’s producer, and Universal Pictures, its distributor, said in a joint statement last week. The dog had been in that water happily, and even afterwards too.” He also spliced, edited and manipulated that to make it look as if the dog was being abused. “This was a piece of video that was shot during the making of this. “The dog was fine,” he said on NBC’s “Today” on Wednesday. They say that the dog was never forced into the water, as the video seems to show, and that the two scenes were recorded at different times. Some of them remain divided between condemning the actions seen in the video and insisting that the treatment of the dog wasn’t quite as bad as it might have looked. Now, just before the movie is to be released on Friday, several of the people involved in the film are offering more details about what happened in the leaked video. It was a crippling story for a movie about the love between humans and their pets dog lovers said they’d skip the movie, and a premiere last week was canceled. The human behavior in the video, obtained last week by TMZ, was roundly condemned. The leaked video was discomforting enough to prompt calls for a boycott: A German shepherd, filming a scene for the coming movie “ A Dog’s Purpose,” fought with a trainer to stay out of a pool he clearly didn’t want to go in, then later briefly sank as humans raced to lift him out of the water.

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