"I know you're sad, you miss your mom. But please don't die, I'll be your best friend forever. And I will always take care of you, I promise. I love you."
An animatronic head of Andre the seal from the production of George Miller’s 1994 family movie Andre.
The film tells the true story of a seal who befriends a little girl and her family in the 1960s.
This head would have been made for the various scenes next to open water, as the production team didn’t want to risk the actual seal trained for the movie escaping. This incredibly realistic head is covered in faux fur of various shades of brown and features large brown glass eyes, a little black nose, ears, whiskers and a mouth full of little teeth. Inside the head are the mechanisms that made the head come alive and move the mouth, and the cables are still attached.
It is missing a small section of fur underneath the chin but overall it remains in an excellent condition.
