![]() Serving (the character I play, Chris) MacKenzie and Steve and Marsh and McDonough and these guys, it’s a responsibility that I think all of us absolutely loved and were honored by. Kitsch: To go back to the training as well, to have Pat and Brendan there, it really is, to me, a small percentage of why we’re there. Q: What was the one thing you wanted to make sure you captured about these real people? Everybody had a lot of respect for the story so they were willing to give 150 percent and it was great. It was very uncomfortable and I made sure that it was as uncomfortable as possible. ![]() To talk to (the press) about it, we want you to think we went through hell, in order to become a Hotshot but the truth of the matter is, it’s like what Dwayne Steinbrink (Bridges’ character) said at the end, “You’ll never be a Hotshot but we’re glad that you guys represented.” He made that very clear and it was nice to get that honesty from somebody who was there and trained these guys but I think, as actors, we put ourselves in a situation where there was no comfort. I think anybody you talk to that was involved would echo that.īrolin: There’s a lot to that but it’s such a personal experience what we went through. He was our leader, top of the call sheet and he just carried that through the whole production. Josh had an open-door policy and he really was the catalyst and energy behind this. It didn’t matter if it was somebody’s first movie because they looked like the actual guy or you’re Josh. I think the boot camp, as far as a cast rehearsal goes, I don’t think anything brings you closer together than collective suffering. I guess that was something that helps your body, your blood oxygenates better. Josh (Brolin, who plays Eric Marsh, the crew’s superintendent) was giving everybody chlorophyll. We were filming some locations that were 10,000 feet above sea level. I had seen some videos but it was tough, man, we were hiking and we shot in Santa Fe, which I also didn’t know was the highest altitude capitol in the country. I knew it was going to be tough but I wasn’t versed on Hotshot training before I showed up. I think I underestimated the physical aspect of the job. Q: Did you guys form a kind-of brotherhood like the real Hotshots when you were filming this on location? The filmmakers enlisted McDonough and Pat McCarty, a former Hotshot, to serve as consultants and educated the cast and crew on wildfires.ĭuring a press conference, the actors recalled what it was like making such an emotional film that recreated the tragic events but also sheds light on the dedicated firefighters who regularly put their lives on the line to protect civilians and their property. The cast went Method by sleeping on the dirt in the desert and the woods without tents during production in New Mexico (standing in for neighboring Arizona). Brolin recalls that the heat was so intense at one point that it melted his backpack. Although some of the more intense fire scenes are computer-generated, those were mixed with actual controlled fires were used on set. To prepare for their roles, the actors went through Hotshot boot camp. The drama is directed by Joseph Kosinski (“Tron: Legacy”) and written by Ken Nolan and Eric Warren Singer, based on the GQ article “No Exit,” by Sean Flynn. 11, 2001 attack at the World Trade Center. The story of the brave men who gave their lives that on that tragic day in June 2013 is the subject of the feature film “Only the Brave,” that stars Josh Brolin, Jeff Bridges, Taylor Kitsch, James Badge Dale and Miles Teller as Brendan McDonough, the 21-year-old fireman who lived to tell the tragic tale of his fallen comrades and had to overcome “survivor’s guilt” following the blaze that became the deadliest incident of any kind of firefighters since the Sept. Only one member of the firefighting team survived, because he was assigned a scouting location apart from the rest of the team. HOLLYWOOD-Four years ago,19 members of the elite firefighting crew known as the Granite Mountain Hotshots lost their lives fighting the Yarnell Hill wildfire in western central Arizona. Crew 7 in the burnt forest including Brendan McDonough (Miles Teller), Jesse Steed (James Badge Dale),Chris MacKenzie (Taylor Kitsch),Grant McKee (Sam Quinn),Andrew Ashcraft (Alex Russell), Clayton Whitted (Scott Haze), Garret Zuppiger (Brandon Bunch), Travis Carter (Scott Foxx), Anthony Rose (Jake Picking), Robert Caldwell (Dylan Kenin), Travis Turbyfill (Geoff Stults) in Columbia Pictures’ ONLY THE BRAVE.
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