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Outside Magazine, September 2007
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On Location
I Want This Movie to Grip People in the Heart (cont.)

In Arizona, Penn wanted to film scenes of Hirsch kayaking on the Colorado River. McCandless had once canoed nearly 400 miles of the Colorado to the Gulf of California.

HIRSCH: I'd never done any kayaking. I had one day of practice, and then on the day of the scene, on our jet boat, we went right by the rapids where I'd practiced. I thought that was where we were shooting, so I said, "Why are we driving by it?" Sean looks at me and says, "That's not a rapid." And we go a couple miles down, and there's this huge, bone-crushing rapid that made the one I'd already done look like a tide pool. And Sean, being a man's man, said, "I'll go first," and he hadn't even kayaked before. He went two-thirds of the way down and just ate shit.

PENN: The only thing I could offer back [to Emile] was to be wherever he was and do the same thing he was doing. Not as well, by the way.

POHLAD: [As a producer] you're always nervous about all of it. Sean too, because he's right beside him. He never wanted to be seen as the guy taking a backseat for anything.




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