Colin Farrell And Viggo Mortensen “Terrified” While Playing Divers

Colin Farrell and Viggo Mortensen have had pretty “terrifying” experiences playing the two real-life divers who performed the world-famous rescue in 2018 from the Thailand caves of 12 young football players and their coaches, both of whom are featured in Ron Howards new Prime Video drama, Thirteen Lives. For Colin Farrell, the experience was especially difficult considering he, by his own admission, “cannot actually swim”. . They said not to work with children or animals — don’t put water in the mix, either, Farrell, who plays the rescuing diver Jon Wolanthen “There is a swimming-apart element to what we are doing – there is something about diving where you sort of embrace this process not of drowning, but submerging” says Farrell.”

“It is a different world below the water. . he spoke during the press event to unveil a trailer of  “Thirteen Lives” along with Howard and Mortensen. Mortensen recalls working closely with Rick Stanton, the real-life diver who plays himself in the film, in order to learn not just how to dive like him, but also how to do so safely.

“There were several moments, for us all, I guess, that you went, Oh, wow.” The actors scariest moment came when one of his oxygen tanks broke down when he was submerged, briefly depriving him of oxygen.

He recalled Stantons advice to “just keep your composure”. . “Do not get excited, because in just seconds, you could be drowning. Once you get frightened, you are done. Even if it is film, you are at that location, and no one gets there quick enough,” Mortensen recalls.

For Howard, one of the most important parts of making Thirteen Lives was honoring the Thai culture and paying tribute to the people of Thailand that made a rescue in real life possible. Howard said, “It was really an emotional creative opportunity for me, and I knew that I was also going to be learning a lot, about Thai culture. I knew it was going to be a filmmaking challenge, which I was excited to take on. I knew the acting opportunities were going to be really emotional”

“And I also knew a huge proportion of that story was going to be Thai, and that we needed to mirror Thai culture and those characters in a very subtle, very grounded, modern, deliberate way. . He added: “This story is really, really important for Thai culture, understandably so. “It is a story that they should be extremely proud of, because the Thai Government and Thai leadership really made that rescue possible.”