“We had so many meetings about how the hell we were going to do it. “I remember saying to my agent: ‘If I can deliver the finale - where the whale leaps to freedom - we’ve got a movie,'” Wincer told The Guardian. Of course, 30 years ago CGI wasn’t what it is now, and in a new interview, director Simon Wincer revealed how, exactly, they made Free Willy possible: a rocket launcher. Before the SeaWorld Kills movement, we had Free Willy, the 1993 film whose emotional ending taught us that maybe, just maybe, orcas shouldn’t live in tiny pools.
