John Cameron Mitchell on playing the infamous “Tiger King” star in the new series “Joe vs. Carole” and the hidden pain and trauma beneath his brutal turf war with Carole Baskin
for the way the series’ subjects were exploited as poverty tourism and crass entertainment.
Joseph Schreibvogel Maldonado-Passage—aka “Joe Exotic”—is a polygamist, gay, country-singing, zoo-owning, former presidential candidate and murder-for-hire felon with a bleached blond mullet. For two decades, he made a living breeding tiger cubs and running a dilapidated zoo showcasing dozens of big cats in rural Oklahoma.
Thousands of miles away, Carole Baskin ran a wildlife sanctuary in Florida, but her interests extended far beyond the fences of her own Big Cat pens. She targeted and wanted to ruin exotic animal owners she believed were abusing or exploiting their charges, at one point setting her eyes on Joe Exotic.
The episodes, created by Etan Frankel, include flashbacks to Baskin and Exotic’s lives in the decades before the events of. You learn more about Joe’s coming out story and the loss he weathered on his way to become a blustering public figure. Baskins’ abusive past relationships are covered, as well as the remarkable way she pulled herself up as a businesswoman.
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