‘Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts’ cast reveal rules for filming on Machu Picchu
nme.comTransformers: Rise Of The Beasts, released in UK cinemas last week, features an extended action sequence on Machu Picchu – and in an exclusive interview with NME, the cast revealed the strict guidelines they had to follow during filming on the sacred Inca mountain ridge.In the sixth film in the franchise, which is based on the successful Hasbro toy line of fighting robot aliens, Dominique Fishback (Swarm) and Anthony Ramos (In The Heights) play humans caught up in a war for space supremacy between the Autobots and their evil enemies the Terrorcons.
The movie switches location half-way through to Machu Picchu, Peru, where production on the historic religious site dating back to the 1450s is closely controlled.“You definitely couldn’t eat or drink or anything on the mountain,” said Fishback. “And you had to hike back down in order to use the bathroom or anything.
You couldn’t step on the stones either. And you couldn’t roll things up, so all of the crew had to carry their equipment up the mountain.
We had some Peruvian people who are used to [the journey] to take our things up.”“it was a very spiritual place,” agreed Ramos, before detailing the many granite slabs and structures that litter the mountainside. “You couldn’t call the stones rocks, either.
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