Zachary Levi
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
It was part of the reason I signed up for it.
I wanted to be challenged in a different way.
But I remember reading about this or seeing this story on the news in passing that these four guys had gone on this fishing trip.
Two of them were NFL football players.
That was kind of what made it so notable.
And I remember just feeling so gutted for them and for their family.
Like, what a tragic way to die.
And then the script came across my desk.
And I read it and learned about all of the harrowing details of it.
And I just thought, man, I feel like this is a story that's worth telling.
I mean, it's harrowing.
It's frustrating.
It's angering almost that so much of this came down to...
an anchor, you know, getting their anchor caught ultimately.
And that ultimately them trying to dislodge that, capsize the boat, they get caught in this storm.
And Nick Schuyler, the character that I played, he was the lucky one.
He survived and he was able to write the book.
And then now this is the story that's based on that book.
And I believe that we have, you know, not just honored Nick, but honored the lives of these other gentlemen, Marquise and Corey and Will, who passed.
And, you know, it...