Zachary Levi

It's not a feel-good movie.

It is a really pulse-pounding, harrowing adventure.

But I think at the end, it still leaves the audience with the concept of holding on to that last shred of hope.

No matter what the odds are to hold on to that hope, it's imperative.

It's imperative in our lives.

Yes, I did.

I did.

You know, Nick was the lucky one in this ordeal, and I was the lucky one in that I had a living counterpart that I could, you know, I was able to have a few phone calls with him before we filmed and pick his brain and heart about what was going on in him during that time.

As you can imagine, it was and as you see in this interview is an incredibly traumatic experience.

And with trauma, there's a lot of memories that are repressed.

So it was difficult for him to recall a lot of all of those feelings or thoughts that he was having.

But I was able to glean what I could from that.

And then he was also able to come.

He and his wife, Paula, who was his girlfriend at the time and is in the film together.

they came and visited us in Malta.

And so we were able to, you know, kind of visit with them while they were out there, which was a very surreal experience for everyone.

I mean, it was very surreal for them as they're watching these scenes being reenacted with his friends dying again.

And it was surreal for us to be doing that in front of them.

But I think that there's something, I don't know, there's, when you're doing a movie like this,

where you are honoring real people, you know, that is the first and foremost, that is the audience that you are trying to please, to honor, to make sure that you're telling that story as authentically as possible.