Morgan Freeman’s swear-filled blooper reel for Netflix dinosaur show is magnificent

Morgan Freeman’s narrations over the years might have seen him dubbed ‘the Voice of God’, but his latest role also saw him drop a string of surprising curse words.

The Hollywood legend, 88, has had a career spanning six decades to date, during which he’s won an Oscar and Golden Globe, whilst also being nominated for a Grammy and Tony.

Throughout the years he’s starred in films including Driving Miss Daisy, The Shawshank Redemption and Invictus.

He’s also narrated numerous documentaries including The Long Way Home, March of the Penguins, Through the Wormhole, The Story of God with Morgan Freeman and Life on Our Planet.

Now he’s also the voice behind the new Netflix documentary The Dinosaurs – which focuses on the history of dinosaurs from their appearance in the Triassic period until their demise in the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event.

As the official synopsis teases: ‘From the first dinosaurs to the last, this epic documentary series examines their 165 million years on Earth and the forces that shaped their evolution.’

Executive produced by Steven Spielberg, the four-part series was released last Friday, where it’s quickly soared to the top of Netflix charts around the world.

Now, a week on from on from its release, Netflix has shared a 30-second blooper reel of Freeman while he was in the recording booth for the show – and his responses are completely unexpected.

Narrating one scene showing a dinosaur hunting in the water, he described how ‘the best hunters are the patient ones’. But as the prey was snapped up, he declared: ‘Oh, he’s f***ed!’

Another showed an airborne dinosaur whose name Freeman couldn’t quite pronounce, recorded questioning: ‘How do you say that? Ar-am-burger-jean-yan-en-blah-landah?’ Unsure if he pulled the pronunciation off, he was heard laughing before adding his own spin, calling them ‘majestic creatures’.

A series of other dinosaurs with difficult names were then shown, with Freeman hilariously struggling with one and just deciding to dub it an ‘anus’. ‘Anus sounds like an a**,’ he adds, his final word being bleeped out.

‘Strange names they give them!’ he then proclaims.

When recording an outro saying his own name, the star isn’t quite satisfied with his attempts, then confidently asserting: ‘I’m Morgan f***ing Freeman.’

After watching the clip, many fans expressed their pleasure at hearing the star’s hilarious outtakes.

‘That man is a treasure,’ user DBSteiger posted on X.

‘I love everything about this,’ Sam declared.

‘He’s so casually hilarious,’ Hamish wrote.

‘Loved this documentary but now I need a version with Morgan Freeman’s unfiltered reaction to it LOL,’ Artemis asked.

‘More bloopers of Morgan Freeman trying to pronounce dino names please!’ AngryFroggo begged.

The Dinosaurs currently holds a perfect 100% rating on review site Rotten Tomatoes, where critics and viewers have shared comments praising what they’ve seen.

‘The visuals and sound design are outstanding, one of the best nature documentaries in years. viscerally, vividly real,’ What She Said wrote in its review.

‘It brings a lost world back to life, and the documentary series is every bit as epic as a story about dinosaurs needs to be,’ Solzy at the Movies shared.

‘The series has a solid narrative arc, spectacular CGI and the inimitable voice of Morgan Freeman to guide us through the 140-million-year rule of the largest animals that ever walked the earth,’ Decider added.

Meanwhile viewers called it a ‘masterpiece’, ‘captivating’, and ‘visually impressive’.  

Director Nick Shoolingin‑Jordan previously told Netflix’s Tudum that he wanted to ‘tell the full chronology all the way through and take the audience on a rip‑roaring adventure’ with the series.

Meanwhile showrunner Dan Tapster, its showrunner, added: ‘We had eight 50-minute episodes to tell the entire story of life on Earth [in Life On Our Planet], so there were lots of things where we could only scratch the surface – and the dinosaur story was absolutely one of them. With The Dinosaurs, we finally get to tell that story in full and celebrate it like no one has ever done before.’

The Dinosaurs is streaming on Netflix.

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