The True Detective star on the two different movies he’s in this week, and memories of playing a certain card-throwing mutant.
8 DAYS: Only the Brave, out this week, is about the Granite Mountain Hotshots, the real-life team of Arizona fire-fighters who lost 19 men in a blaze in 2013. You play one of the firefighters who died in the line of duty. How much did you know about firefighting before working on this movie?
TAYLOR KITSCH: Two of my best friends are firefighters, but none of them are wildfire fighters or hotshots or smoke jumpers, so it was really a crash course for me, to be honest. It’s really a perk to being an actor, where you get to immerse yourself in all these different professions, train with the best, and be a part of their stories.
Is training for wildfire fighting as hard as training to be a naval officer in Battleship, a Navy Seal in Lone Survivor and a cop in True Detective?
The training itself is hard to compare, but again, you’re exposed to so many different things. As an actor, what I focus on is the person I’m portraying. For Only the Brave, it’s really focusing on who [my character] Chris MacKenzie is — his spirit, how he led, and everything about him — and let the mechanics of the job be literally one of the last things I learn.
So playing a real person is tougher because you’re bound by his legacy?
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