Colin Farrell Suffered Several ‘Anxiety Attacks’ While Filming Underwater for ‘Thirteen Lives’
variety.comCarson Burton The shoot for “Thirteen Lives,” the feature film adaptation of the miraculous 2018 cave-diving rescue mission known as the Tham Luang cave rescue, found all principal cast members taking to the water to navigate long, recreated cave corridors.
Tom Bateman, who plays one of the rescue divers in the film, recalls the hours upon hours of underwater training the film required.“We were fucking pruned!” Bateman told Variety at the red carpet premiere of the film at Westwood Village Theater on Thursday night. “It was pretty tough, man.
We get looked after, but you pretty much put on a wetsuit at, like, 6 in the morning. And you’re not out of it until 8 o’ clock at night.”Bateman stars alongside Viggo Mortensen, Collin Farrell and Joel Edgerton in the new film from director Ron Howard. “Thirteen Lives” follows the true story of the 2018 rescue of a boys’ soccer team in Thailand, after they were trapped in a cave for 18 days due to a flash flood.
In order to rescue the coach and 12 boys stranded about 2.5 miles inside the flooded cave, four British cave divers — Rick Stanton, Vernon Unsworth, Connor Roe and Josh Bratchley — traversed the narrow corridors and brought each of the boys to safety, one-by-one.
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