However that wasn’t the most important part. They suffered through blisters and heat, but he didn’t hear a complaint from the actors. They spent a night in the dirt with no tents under the stars. A former Granite Mountain Hotshot, Pat McCarty reveals he trained the actors to carry 45 pound backpacks with gear and a heavy chainsaws hiking through extreme 100 degree temperatures in New Mexico. The cast fully immersed themselves in training to be Hotshots. Hotshots do not put out fires like most firefighters but set fires to burn out any fuel that might propel the blaze from spreading to nearby towns and homes.Īt a recent Los Angeles press conference, Brolin, Teller, Connelly, Kitsch, Bridges, Dale, director Joseph Kosinski, and real-life Hotshots Brendan McDonough and Pat McCarty reveal how they went about telling the story and the rigorous training the actors went through to bring a realistic portrayal to these real-life heroes. ONLY THE BRAVE is not an action movie, but a story of the camaraderie and brotherhood of a unit of firefighters as they head out to fight fire with fire.

Watch the full interview below.īased on the true and sad story behind the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a group of elite firefighters from Prescott, Arizona risk their lives to save a town from a historic wildfire. The actors and real-life firefighters talk about their experience in bringing the story of the brave men, women and their families to the big screen. The stars of ONLY THE BRAVE portray real-life heroes who sacrificed their lives for the greater good. Josh Brolin, Miles Teller, Jennifer Connelly, Taylor Kitsch, Jeff Bridges and James Badge Dale are not just playing characters in another Hollywood movie.

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