![]() ![]() Oscar-winner Jennifer Connelly plays Marsh’s wife, Amanda, while Andie MacDowell portrays Steinbrink’s wife, Marvel.ĭuring the interview, Bridges and Brolin take the conversation into expected locations, such as discussing the late author Peter Matthiessen (“The Snow Leopard”) or emergent behavior. “Only the Brave” also stars Miles Teller, James Badge Dale and Taylor Kitsch as members of the Granite Mountain crew. ![]() “So this movie is maybe my most personal,” says Brolin. Martin has remained a friend, and knew Marsh, attending his funeral. “I came from a surf community that was very tight, and when I didn’t have that anymore I missed it.” It wasn’t necessarily the firefighting or that I wanted to be in a really dangerous place,” says Brolin. Nearly 30 years ago when he was shooting the Western series “The Young Riders” in Arizona, he struck up a friendship with Danny Martin, a wildland firefighter, and he started hanging out with him as a volunteer fireman. “It made us actors step forward to get it right,” he says.īrolin already had some experience with firefighting. Brolin feels that in this case it was important because Steinbrink and former Granite Mountain Hotshots were involved in the training. The actor performs a song as Steinbrink in the film.Īs is customary in action films like this, “Only the Brave” had a two-week boot camp - this one in the mountains outside Santa Fe, N.M. - so the actors could train for their roles. Bridges has been a longtime musician and songwriter, even winning his Oscar in “Crazy Heart” playing a country singer. Steinbrink has a cowboy band called The Rusty Pistols. “With Jeff, it’s always about music,” Brolin says with a laugh. I’ll give it 110 percent and I hope at the end of the day you feel that I’ve represented your son well.”Įventually, Steinbrink came around to support the film.īridges and Steinbrink connected over music. The actor says he told Marsh’s parents that “No matter what I do it will never be right, but I will represent him in the best way I can. The Granite Mountain Hotshots save an ancient tree in “Only the Brave.” “When I met Eric’s parents, the first thing his mother said to me was, ‘Eric was a lot taller than you.’ So it’s tough,” says Brolin. Both Bridges and Brolin have played real-life people before and know as an actor you can’t completely transform into the person you’re playing. ![]()
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