(NewsNation) — Who would have known that a fight between Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver in “Marriage Story,” where he yells out the line when confronted about his cheating, “You should be mad I had a laugh with her,” would be used to scare gray wolves.
Well, that is exactly the case, as the United States Department of Agriculture is using the argument between Johansson and Driver in scaring gray wolves away from livestock and cattle, according to The Wall Street Journal.
“I need the wolves to respond and know that, hey, humans are bad,” Paul Wolf, a USDA district supervisor in Oregon, told the WSJ.
AC/DC also used to scare gray wolves
Tala, a 14-year-old timber wolf, rests on top of her den at the Colorado Wolf and Wildlife Center (CWWC) in Divide, Colorado on March 28, 2023. CWWC’s 35 acre property is home to 18 wolves, and offers daily tours. In 2020, Colorado voters passed Proposition 114, which required Colorado Parks and Wildlife to reintroduce gray wolves to designated lands on the western side of the Continental Divide no later than December 31, 2023. Wolves that have wandered into Colorado from the neighboring state of Wyoming have put ranchers on edge that their livestock may become prey, as well as presented challenges to the outcome of the reintroduction program. (Photo by Jason Connolly / AFP) (Photo by JASON CONNOLLY/AFP via Getty Images) 
Black Northwestern wolf. Mackenzie Valley wolf. Alaskan timber wolf. Canadian timber wolf (Canis lupus occidentalis), largest grey wolf subspecies. (Photo by: Arterra/Philippe ClŽment/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
After gray wolves were reintroduced in Yellowstone National Park in 1995, the population has increased, leading to more attacks on sheep and cattle, the WSJ reports.
Despite the wolves killing their livestock, farmers aren’t allowed to harm them because they’re protected under the Endangered Species Act.
The USDA is finding the wolves via quadcopter drones equipped with thermal cameras and then using a loudspeaker to blast the explosive argument involving the characters’ ongoing divorce over the speaker.
In addition to the “Marriage Story” scene, the USDA plays AC/DC’s rock anthem “Thunderstruck” to scare the canines away.
After 11 cows were killed by wolves in the Klamath Basin of southern Oregon over 20 days, the USDA deployed the drones. Over the next 85 days, only two cows were killed by gray wolves, according to WSJ.