I'm not lion.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Doesn’t really matter, for the purposes of the hypothetical. As long as it wasn’t killed for the express purpose of making the costume, I can’t see any moral or ethical objection to using the pelt.

Boru

Help me out, how do we know that wasn't the case? And if we do know why would it matter? Given the gimcrackery in that movie a fake lion fur wouldn't have been noticed. A well done fake lion fur costume would have been less likely to give the actor heat stroke.

We DON’T know it wasn’t the case. I’m simply pointing out that using an actual lion pelt for a costume isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

If the producers of the film had said, ‘We need a lion skin for a costume, let’s kill a lion’, I would object. If (as seems more likely, if only from a cost standpoint) they purchased a pelt or had one taking up space in the props department, what’s the harm?

Boru