Being part of this film, obviously being from Thailand.
I mean, it was it's must be quite an honor to be able to tell this story.
Do you know how heroic, heroic everybody was, including the Thai community?
How is it, you know, how do you feel about being in this project community?
Well, how is it, you know, how do you feel about being in this project?
Well, this is our honor to to to be in this project, you know,
because this story is about
Thai people, Thai culture and, you know, a Thai story.
And we have which has we
we have drawn, you know, the amazing director and.
And Thailand, we we we got an honor to be here
to to be the, you know,
to to tell this story to the world.
I think that is amazing.
Yeah. Yeah.
No, I totally agree.
Yeah, it's it's a story about Thailand.
It is a story about family, love,
culture, faith, heroism
told about heroes, starting from the coach
who kept his calm, kept the kids calm.
The kids were heroes.
The governor, the role that I get to represent.
Had the choice of quitting
or not, he was actually sacked, actually, as a matter of fact, prior to that.
But he stayed on did the job the two.
And turned out to be more than
two crazy foreigners who
on a day off would go diving to the deepest part of the world
and the smallest crevices and everything for fun.
All these were put together.
The Navy SEALs, the farmers.
My God, you go on and on.
Everybody willing to give up their lives
to save these
Thai boys?
Yeah.
Covering the story, bringing it to
to perfection, because you see all that that I've just mentioned, run shows,
a lot of shows, the family shows, the culture shows everything fantastic.
Yeah.
You obviously this you were working with a lot of water
even though it was a controlled environment.
How scary was that?
Obviously not for you cause you never got in there.
But you you did.
And also working in the caves as well.
That must have been it must have felt quite anxiety driven.
Yeah, I can still remember the first day
that I saw the cave that that the production have built, that
that is the first day that I go off in quarantine in Australia
and, and uh, Ron Howard walk to me and then we have a little conversation.
And then he walked me into the cave and,
and he gave a town to me, if I have one, feel something.
And when the dark clothes and ah, you know,
I starting to feel that is, is so real, you know, the, the set is so real and
it's make me feel like
is, is, is hopeless.
The, you know, when when when you stuck in the Israeli dog is
some very wet and is look like
there is no way out and um yeah
well yeah
of course you know you play real life characters in this as well
did you each get to spend some time
with your counterparts at all before we went into this?
And I, I, I did not I will after
this movie is released, I would like to see the man
having read up on
about him in and watching him in real time and everything.
He's quite a
interesting individual, very smart.
I think he has like five degrees as I mean, this just has nothing better to do
than study, which is quite opposite my real person,
No, I never did see him.
But what he did
for the country and what I did to portray him, I wish he would be proud of.
I wish
I didn't have a chance to met him either.
But, um, I have such a lot.
I, um, I do a little research a lot.
I watched his widow and
yeah, I love the, the thing that
how can he make all the boy survive and
due to meditation.
So I'm actually I, I got a life.
I'm from this point I have to learn how to meditate and
and at the right time that I learn how to meditate.
I think it made me feel more calm and
it is quite good, you know, when I have a chance to,
to teach all of the boy the and the boy in the movie
and I, I see I taught him how to meditate
and um, yeah, I feel like.
So now I know why the boy can survive.
Because when you meditate is
the energy in the
body is not it's not losing is but is very slow.
Yeah it's I had hibernating is like hibernating.
I actually want to touch on that point
because I think if I don't want to say if it were anywhere else,
but even if it were adults, I think they would have been
beating each other to death, fighting for space.
And, you know.
And who are you to tell me to meditate and why did you just,
you know, do whatever all the stuff
you have to do right where I'm sleeping and all that.
So it's amazing that the faith came into that.
Yeah, well, there yeah, definitely kids are more easy to mold,
shall we say, and lead down the white path.
Okay.
So, you know, you've obviously worked alongside
quite a few big Hollywood names there as well.
And you mentioned crazy the crazy foreigners.
So who was the craziest out of them on the set?
They're all just as crazy.
Viggo Mortensen is very calm.
Viggo is like the guru.
They're the Zen master.
But Colin Farrell has his own thing.
Joel Edgerton is just nonstop.
And I when I grow up, I want to be just like that.
So, you know, they they're they're fantastic to work with
for for our scenes where we need their eyeline.
They're there for an hour or 2 hours.
They just stand there, give his I'm or anything.
So that to me gaining from an A-lister is beautiful.
Yes. You know, I, I shoot thing with them when the scene in the cave
and um all of them stay in water
for like 10 hours to 10 hours.
Yeah. And they, they eat.
They eat in water and
is, um, so, you know, they,
they give, like, more than 100%.
And, um, yeah, as he, as he told
whenever you need to there would be there, yeah.
There'd be teams that everything but they, we don't need them.
Those guys are just there.
Yeah.
Fantastic. Well, thank you very much for talking to me today.
It's been a pleasure. Thank you. Thank you.