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Acting icon Melanie Griffith has been spotted on a walk with her beloved German Shepherd in Los Angeles.
Melanie, 68, who has taken a step back from Hollywood in recent years, opted for a casual look for the occasion, wearing an all-black athleisure outfit consisting of black pants, a tight-fitting black jacket, a black top and matching black sliders.
The Golden Globe winner swept back her long blonde hair, pinning it on top of her head, and went makeup-free during the relaxing July 20 stroll. This comes as Dakota Johnson, Melanie's daughter, claimed her dad cut her off.
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However, this isn't Melanie's only experience around large animals as the Working Girl actress was raised alongside a 400-lb lion.
As a child, Melanie had a lion named Neil, after her mother, fellow actress Tippi Hedren, and her stepfather Noel Marshall decided to make a movie about big cats following a trip to Africa in 1969.
After this trip, an animal trainer suggested that to understand the predators truly, they should live with one. They took the advice literally and brought Nail into their California home.
During the 1970s, Neil roamed freely throughout the house, something that was documented in 1971's world-famous LIFE photoshoot, which documented the animal sleeping in the same bed as Melanie.
Neil was also photographed lounging on the family's couch, swimming in their pool, and sitting alongside Melanie while she did her homework.
However, Neil's placid demeanor lulled Tippi and Noel into a false sense of security and for their 1981 movie, Roar, the couple amassed more than 100 untrained lions, tigers and cheetahs.
Production lasted 11 years and became legendary as "the most dangerous movie ever made." Roar was filmed without cages or stunt doubles, whereby the untamed animals frequently turned on the crew, and more than 70 people were injured.
During filming, Melanie was mauled by a lioness, requiring facial reconstructive surgery and 50 stitches. She also had a near-miss with permanent blindness as the lion's claws tore into her face and missed her eye by a single millimetre.
The attack left her deeply shaken, and she initially quit the production out of fear the scars would end her acting career, though she eventually returned to finish the movie. Remarkably, the footage of the actual attack aftermath, which showed Melanie with a bloody face, was kept and used in the final cut of the film.
On a separate occasion during filming, she was also grabbed by the hair by a lion that refused to let go, while her mother suffered a fractured leg. Just like his wife, Noel was also attacked, contracting severe blood poisoning and gangrene from his injuries.
Moreover, the film's cinematographer, Jan de Bont, was completely scalped but survived. This injury required 220 stitches.
