![]() What you see in the film is the firefighter Brandon Bunch, who was on the crew for a number of years. It takes a lot of trust to trust an actor with a chainsaw.Įspecially with a beer bottle - opening that beer bottle with the chainsaw.ĭale: That was Brandon Bunch, yes that’s totally true. I’m proud to be apart of this film, and I’m also proud of all the actors that I worked with to be able to do that. We all knew that was, and what that meant. What I will say that is that we shot Yarnell last. Everybody works a little bit differently. How did you mentally and emotionally prepare for that?ĭale: I don’t want to get too actory with you, and take to you about process. How did you prepare for the days where you knew that it was going to be hard scene to film? You knew there were certain days where there were big scenes coming up. Even as an actors, we’d sit there and be like hey man, look at that line. There’s no number two crew, and no one is ever going to call us to put out anything, but we took a lot of pride in our work, and it was a beautiful thing at the end of the day. Strength comes from within, so by the end of it, we were, we’re the number one actor firefighting crew around. It’s not a bunch of big, large guys running around, those guys wash out. The strength isn’t this outward thing that you look at. There’s that little competition with them. They come in and they last, and they will outlast the man next to them. The fact that they’re marathon runners, they’re not sprinters. These guys have a lot of pride in their work, and what they do. So at every moment, on that set, there was someone who was there for you, supporting you, also telling you you’re doing it completely wrong. We had a firefighter who was with us the entire time. Our tech advisor was with us the whole time. We’d love you guys to have that same attitude,” so how do we create this culture. But also this other side of it was, “Look man we have fun a lot of fun while we’re at work. Yes, they trained us physically, technically. These guys they were all friends, with these guys. We had four former Granite Mountain Hotshots train us. I just thought that as an actor, what you got input from and how that helped you create those characters.ĭale: Yeah, thank you. #Only the brave star movie#Can you maybe give an example how on the set on how the advisors helped? It felt like the kind of movie where the details seemed right. I think when you’re watching the film you can feel the authenticity, and the tools, the way you guys move and operate the terminology. This job was special from the beginning, and we’ve all tried to treat it as such. If you watch this film, and you watch Jennifer Connelly’s performance, what she gives. It’s a celebration of love, because they gave and their family members gave. I think we can all learn something from this, take something from this. Something seemed deeply important in this story thread. I was sitting on the subway, I don’t know, man. ![]() The science behind if you’re standing there, and forty foot wall of flames are coming at you at 3,000 degrees. What those shelters are and what they do. Then it was about how they stuck together to the end. What it meant to be the first crew to come from city, and not a federal agency, or state. The difference between tier one and tier two. Fernando Santos is the writer, and she, the 1st half of the article was on what it takes to becomes a tier one hotshot crew. The New York Times did a two-page article on these guys. The week of the Yarnell hill fire - I’m a New York City kid, and I was riding the 6th train downtown, the subway. What do you think sort of separates this role from the other roles you’ve played in the past?ĭale: I’ve played a lot of bad guys too, man, I just want to point that out.ĭale: This film was very special to me. In our conversations with him, he delved into the friendship and trust built between firefighters like the Granite Mountain Hotshots, and how they did their best to replicate that on the set of the film. ![]() In the film, Dale plays the character of Jesse Steed, the captain of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, and second in command to Josh Brolin’s Eric Marsh. LRM had a chance to sit down with one of the stars of the film, James Badge Dale, in a roundtable conversation with a bunch of other journalists. It’s a tale of man against nature, but more than anything, it’s a story about camaraderie between a group of men, and the difficulties the job is on the family these men create. The upcoming film, Only the Brave, chronicles a group of men who fight wildfires. ![]()
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