This is one of the less visible dimensions of the Roar production — the choices of the non-family workers, who were not parents of the project, who had not sold their houses to fund it, who did not carry the specific combination of creative investment and family loyalty that seems to have motivated the Hedren-Marshall family’s continuing commitment. Some of them were injured and stayed anyway. Their decisions are part of the production’s history even when their names are not in the publicized accounts.
## Melanie Griffith’s Recovery and What She Has Said
Melanie Griffith’s mauling during the Roar production — the lioness attack that required approximately fifty sutures to her face and that briefly threatened her sight — occurred at a point in the production when she was a young adult, not the teenager who appeared in the LIFE photographs. She had been, at various points, a genuine participant in the project that her stepfather had conceived and that her mother had supported. She had been cast in the film. She had been injured. She had left the production at one point and been temporarily replaced before returning.
Her subsequent career does not appear to have been defined by these events in any straightforward way. She went on to have a successful film career that produced a Best Actress Academy Award nomination and a Golden Globe win for Working Girl. She has spoken about her childhood and her family in various public contexts, and her descriptions of her mother have been consistently warm. She has been associated with the Shambala Preserve’s advisory board.