. >> roy horn was a slight guy. roy's size matters for a lot of different reasons.s gonna be an instability. the tiger's gonna realize that, if i ever wanted to physically dominate this guy, there'd be no problem. >> dealing with those cats, 650 pounds, a siberian tiger, tail to nose, standing on your shoulders, i mean, you have to have it together ir to do that. you can't phone it in. >> it's not like the circus when there's a cage. in siegfried & roy there was no such barrier. these majestic, potentially lethal animals were feet away from audience members with nothing in between them. it's pretty incredible. >> it was an eerie scene to watch how close the cats were to the audience. you could see how sharp their teeth were. and you could see their girth. i've heard of audience members veryg very nervous being up close like that. >> over 30 years doing shows 48eeks a year, siegfried & roy managed to put dozens of big cats and lions into a room with people without any bars or walls. none of us ever felt that the public was in danger, ever. nor did we think that roy w