ComingSoon Editor-in-Chief Tyler Treese spoke to 13 Lives stars Weir Sukollawat Kanarot and Pattrakorn “Ploy” Tungsupakul about their roles. Kanarot portrays the heroic Saman Kunan, who tragically handed away in the course of the rescue, whereas Tungsupakul performs the mom of one of many lacking boys. The Ron Howard-directed movie is streaming on Prime Video on August 5.
“13 Lives recounts the unimaginable true story of the super world effort to rescue a Thai soccer workforce who change into trapped within the Tham Luang cave throughout an surprising rainstorm,” says the synopsis. “Confronted with insurmountable odds, a workforce of the world’s most expert and skilled divers – uniquely in a position to navigate the maze of flooded, slim cave tunnels – be a part of with Thai forces and greater than 10,000 volunteers to aim a harrowing rescue of the twelve boys and their coach. With impossibly excessive stakes and your complete world watching, the group embarks on their most difficult dive but, showcasing the limitlessness of the human spirit within the course of.”
Tyler Treese: Weir, you painting a very heroic Thai Navy SEAL who does every part he can to save lots of these boys. It’s such a tragedy that occurred, so what preparation went into this position?
Weir Sukollawat Kanarot: I’m fortunate I’ve a diving certificates. [For] Saman, I simply mentioned straight with Ron concerning the character and the script. Saman, he was prepared when extra divers had been wanted and prepared to rescue the boys.
Ploy, there’s simply a lot emotion in being a mom on this scenario. What did you faucet into for these moments to point out each the worry of the scenario and in addition the energy to remain hopeful?
I can relate that all of us has a worry of dropping somebody we love and in that type of scenario, the one factor that we could be is to remain hopeful till we all know the actual results of the operation. And not using a true understanding of the ending, we should keep hopeful. That’s how I can relate my emotions with the dad and mom of the child, that that have to be the energy of the dad and mom all through the entire operation.
Weir, you have got so many nice scenes contained in the water. How troublesome was it performing in these circumstances?
Yeah, actually, actually troublesome, however actually lovely. As a result of within the cave [there are] slim passageways the place it’s actually darkish and fairly scary, however we’ve got our skilled security workforce additionally assist us in the course of the shoot. The taking pictures went effectively. I needed to maintain my breath for about two minutes for the dying scene.
