An unbelievable true story of
faith and survival is coming to
Amazon Prime Video this Easter.
I'm talking with Jesse Metcalf
from on a wing and a prayer.
Thanks for chatting with me this morning.
Of course. My pleasure.
So what's on? And a wing?
On a wing and a prayer about?
Well, it's based on a true story
about a man by the name of Doug White,
with very minimal flight experi,
had to land a complicated privae
aircraft after the pilot dies of
a heart attack. My character
is a man by the name of Kerry Sorensen,
who happens to be an expert in
this particular plane and is abe
to help Doug White land this ple
safely and save himself and his
family. This is Kerry Sorensen.
I've been talking to the
controllers on the phone.
The hell in the world.
You find me, I'll explain what we get.
You on the ground.
It's real bad up
here. I can't control this airp.
Were you familiar with this stoy
before you signed on to the pro?
You know, I wasn't familiar
with the story and I ironically,
my character, Carrie Sorensen,
is from Connecticut and
that's where I'm from.
He's from Danbury, CT, but I
definitely educated myself on the story,
along with many other things concerning
aviation because I had a lot of
aviation jargon to spit out in this movie.
So I wanted to have a cursory
knowledge of what I was talking about.
Definitely walked away from this project
with greater respect for for pi.
What kind of tips, if any,
did Kerry give you before filmi?
Well, I never actually talked to
Kerry Sorensen, unfortunately.
And you know, we did take a bit
of artistic license. You know,
in me playing this role conside,
you know, Kerry and I don't look
an awful lot alike, but you kno,
I learned a lot about the man fm
the video footage that was out there.
On the Internet and also some of
the print interviews he gave,
I feel like he was a reluctant .
He didn't really consider himself as a hero.
He kind of, you know,
felt like he was in the right pe
at the right time to help out.
But, you know, I really like
the picture that was painted
of the man within our script.
You know, he, he did
lose his father and his stepfat,
both the plane crashes. So
I, I sort of, I
sort of, you know,
crafted the character around th.
You know, that he had a lot
of unresolved trauma that he
had to deal with and that,
you know, through helping,
helping the white family to saf,
he was able to go on somewhat oa
healing journey and sort of exee
those demons that he was living with.
Yeah. I saw an interesting
stat that your costars,
Dennis Quaid and Heather,
Heather Graham, you never
met them during filming.
What was that like?
I never met either of them. You know it.
Well, I wanted to meet them obviously
because I'm a huge fan of of both of them.
But you know, from an acting perspective
it it definitely presents some
challenges specifically, you kn,
like being on the phone every scene and
sort of acting with the assistant director
who's reading lines with you off camera.
Obviously it would,
you know be a lot easier and possibly
benefit the performance if you e
working opposite the actual act.
But I think when all was said and done,
the performances really rang tr.
I mean, specifically, you know,
Dennis, I just thought he,
he's incredible in this movie, you know,
they had to do the same thing.
They had to manufacture all this
energy and emotion, you know,
it on set in the cockpit of this plane,
you know, but I mean,
that's what we do as actors,
you know, we make, you know,
unrealistic circumstances reali,
you know, that's our job.
So.
Hopefully we accomplished that in this movie.
Yeah. I think you guys definitely did.
Last question. I was a teen when
John Tucker must die came out
and we're coming up on 20 years.
Is there any talks of a sequel
with all these other films gettg
reboots after all these years or
what he could be up to these da?
Not that I have heard.
You know, I I always thought a d
way into a sequel for John Tucker must
die would be maybe if I was lik.
The uncle that that the younger
John Tucker you know my nephew
looked up to but really I was le
this like aging bachelor, you k,
who never really grew up so he
could learn like not to be like
me but you know I mean that that
was a great period of my career.
I I feel like as a teen slapstik
comedy that movie sort of achied
kind of cult classic status.
Which I'm, I'm proud of.
I mean, it got it got panned
when it originally came out.
So I think it's funny that people are
still talking about it 20 years later.
Yeah. Well, hopefully we get some stuff
in the future for it, but thanks a lot.
Make sure you watch Honor Wing
and a prayer April 7th on Amazon
Prime Video. Thanks, Jesse.
Yeah, you got it. Thank you so .
How Long's the flat, daddy?
You start taking a nap on the runway.
When you wake up we'll be
back home in Louisiana.
96BB into the pattern on left down wind.
Appreciate you sacrificing your
Easter Sunday just flies home
you welcome to ride up front.
Looks like a space shuttle thatn
is waiting the taxi turn your headset.
You can listen to me talk to air
traffic control. Traffic insigh.
You stare them with your feet. ,
here we go.
Why may maintain one 4000 aren'u
supposed to repeat back what het
Joe Miami Center. You need one there.
Say your tail number and
intention. What's going on?
I've got an emergency up here.
My wife and daughters are on this plane.
I need you to stop a plane cras.
You're the only person I
know who can save them.
Has he flown a king air? Never.
You've got a very tight window.
How long has he been in the air?
Start easing off of those contr.
Can you do that?
We got a real good cop out of it up here.
Landing gear down. I got it.
I'm looking for the emergency procedures.
No doubt.
We're going to need it.
Make sure your buckles out back
there, he's flying right toward the storm. He
is never going to make it. I
love you, girl. You can do it.
Sometimes you got to trust
in things you can't see.