John Reinke

John Reinke is a manager at Joe Exotic's roadside zoo, a blunt, no-nonsense presence among the park's stranger characters. He lost both his legs below the knee in a workplace accident years earlier and keeps working anyway, running the place with a gruff practicality that cuts through the chaos around him.

He works because the documentary surrounds him with showmen and schemers, and he simply isn't one. His dry, matter-of-fact account of his own accident and recovery lands harder for being unadorned, and that plainness makes him one of the few people onscreen you instinctively trust.