In 2017, the young Ahmed Silla appeared to the general public with the comedy The Ascension, in which he plays Sammy, a young man who decides to climb the mythical 8,848 meters of Mount Everest. An incredible experience for the actor, who recently explained how physically demanding he was while filming in the high mountains.
“It was crazy! I lost 7 kilos, I ran there”, Says Ahmed Sila in the program Zen. “It was very, very difficult. Humanly, it’s crazy. You look at people differently, you look at life differently. Really.”
“You don’t know how your body will react until the last moment”continues the 33-year-old actor In comments reported by our colleagues at Télé-Loisirs. There are people who are highly trained, experienced climbers who died on the spot.
The experience was so intense that Ahmed Sila made a radical decision: he would never go to the mountains again! “I turned down a movie in the snow, actually, because of that”He sighed rudely.
Let’s note that although part of the ascent was filmed in Nepal, the cameras could not reach the highest Himalayan mountains of Everest, which were very dangerous. Filmed at Everest Base Camp, still at an altitude of 5,464 meters, Ascent is the first feature film to be shot in this extreme location. Some team members even climbed the glacier at over 6,000 meters to photograph the ladder passages above the crevasses.
The most paradoxical thing here is that the French shooting in Chamonix was more attempted than in Nepal! “The living conditions in the base camp in Nepal were not easy: no washing for 6 days, hours of daily walking, but also the opportunity to rest.”Ahmed Sila said when the film was released. “In the Alps it was tougher: we dropped to -30 degrees in the middle of the night, with frost on our suits. I would like to acknowledge the work of the professionals who supervised us: there is a time in Chamonix where I. He was very scared and their presence was very comforting…”.
Adapted from the true story of Nadir Dandun as told in his book Tocard on the roof of the worldThe Ascension, which won the Grand Prize and the Audience Award at the Alpe d’Huez Comedy Film Festival, was a huge success in cinemas with more than 1.1 million people in attendance. you.
The Ascension is available on Netflix.
Portrait of our young actor with Ahmed Silas:
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