Director Simon Cellan Jones talked about working with mankind’s best friend.
And, of course, I did some research.
And I saw that it is absolutely crazy.
You know, I mean, it’s all great to go for a run every now and then.
But these guys just exert themselves five days straight.
And you know, it’s quite a tough thing to do."
With the story focused on adventure running, an exotic location was needed.
And it was tough, but it was really fun."
He’s very supportive.
He does his homework; he really knows his stuff.
So, you know, he doesn’t just know his lines; he knows everyone else’s lines.
And he didn’t speak English.
And although he did, I think, have a very bright attitude to him.
And I think he’s very intelligent.
You know, we had to give him some leeway.
We had to give him a little bit a little bit of food.
And we had to be patient.
We had three dogs that came over from America.
But this one, Ukai, he’s the only guy we used.
So, if we didn’t get that right, we didn’t have a movie.
So whether whether we did or not, you’ll decide, or the audience will decide.
They sort of had a little bit of a special bond.
So I think that really helped.
But he’s a great actor.
So he was able to do that.
He was a fantastic teammate; he’s one of our leading main actors.
But he was sweet…
He’s really humble.
And he adopted a dog from the Dominican Republic."
And fortunately, they were all game…
I’m not great with heights.
And that was quite scary."
We had a bit of time to plan it.
We had a great stunt team and a great rigging team.
The real story took place in Ecuador.
We couldn’t do that because we had to film somewhere with a film industry.
And that was really good…
The characters were sort of made up apart from the one played by Mark.
But, you know, I think it was very truthful to the real story."
And unfortunately, it got deleted."
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