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. 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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