Cave diver Richard Stanton helped save 12 boys and their soccer coach from a dire fate in 2018. Serving as a technical adviser to the actors (including the one who played him) on the MGM/Prime Video drama made that heroic experience even more poignant.
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Jason and I are detailed, driven people. That’s why the rescue was successful. Likewise, on set we paid enormous attention to how the actors would look because the gear was unfamiliar to them. When we didn’t think something looked accurate, we took great care in correcting it, and we made sure that the actors were not just familiar with the diving equipment but also looked and felt comfortable in their gear and were able to move like us by the end of their training sessions.
The production schedule was not in a linear sequence. What I call the “money shot,” which was finding the Thai soccer team still alive in the cave, was in fact the first scene that was filmed. John Volanthen and I first came up into the chamber together, and that was really the first time that they’d been shown diving underwater. I remember the cameraman captured an amazing shot where all four faces of the divers were looking into the camera at the same time.
We’re not particularly emotional or fearful people, and that is one of the reasons, along with our experience, why we were the most suitable divers to do the rescue. But when the actors who played Jason, John and myself came out of the cave after finding the boys, and then performed the elation we experienced upon completing the rescue mission, it brought emotion out of us because it was completely real.
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