Ron Howard Says Colin Farrell And Viggo Mortensen Trained With ‘Real Thirteen Diving’ To Survive ‘Thirteen Lives’

Colin Farrell and Viggo Mortensen trained with divers as part of the upcoming Ron Howard movie rescue mission. thirteen livesAbout an incident where 12 boys and their football coach were trapped in a flooded cave system in Thailand for 18 days in 2018.

Talking hollywood reporter, Howard says: “The same jumpers were with us during our training and shooting, especially Viggo Mortensen and Colin Farrell, but the other guys were training with them and copying their style. So we had a couple of weeks where they were in the water with them every day, imitating this and that, because they did this job, they also volunteered to work weekends and whatever it took to get all these pictures. , they learned in the cave the technique of preaching and the personality of the men who played.

Farrell and Mortensen play divers John Volanten and Richard Stanton, respectively. These two men were part of a rescue mission that found all 13 people alive about 4 km from the mouth of the cave. Several options were considered to get the group out, but when the rains started, the rescue team decided to take the unconscious children out one by one and swim through the tunnels with them. Also on the mission were Jason Malinson (played by Paul Gleason in the film), Chris Joel (Tom Bateman), Richard Harris (Joel Egerton) and Craig Chalen.

From the 8th to the 10th of July, all the boys were taken out of the cave. More than 10,000 people from all over the world participated in the rescue operation. A Royal Thai Navy cell died on 6 July while trying to survive asphyxiation. In December 2019, the Second Thai Navy died of a blood-borne infection during a rescue operation.

The cave system became complicated and the added sediment made it much more complicated. To recreate the complex caves, Howard and his team built five different tanks, each with a different cave and tunnel network.

“We couldn’t do that in real caves,” Howard added. “But it was really perfect, I remember, not as dangerous as a real analog fire. countercurrent, But kinda hard and painstaking trying to achieve. It also reminded me a little of our real weightless photos. apollo 13 Where we flew a KC-135 called the Vomiting Comet, which was used by astronauts for training and scientists to test weightlessness and its effects on all sorts of things. We recorded all the main takes for this. apollo 13 The weightlessness in the capsule of that KC-135. So that was another challenge of that kind of physical cinema. ”

thirteen livesWriter/director William Nicholson Howard opens in theaters November 18.

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