Ranbir Kapoor has often called Animal his darkest film to date. The Sandeep Reddy Vanga directorial is the story of a father and son 'carved in blood'. Ahead of the film's release, a video from one of the promotional events went viral on social media. A page on Reddit shared it. In the clip, Ranbir revealed Alia Bhatt would help him execute scenes whenever he was scared to do them as an actor. 

Ranbir said in the viral clip, "Alia and me speak so much about each other’s work. I really respect her as an artiste and I really respect her mind and how she thinks. Every scene or everyday when I going to shoot the film, I would discuss it with her and she has helped me with so many scenes. She has helped me with scenes where I was scared as an actor that ‘Is it sounding too wrong?"