Interview With "The Rescue" Directors, Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2021

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi were hot off of their Best Documentary Oscar win for "Free Solo" when the real-life story of "The Rescue" occurred. Using archival footage from the daring 2018 mission, new interviews, and thrilling reenactments using the actual cave divers involved in the rescue, Jimmy and Elizabeth have once again created one of the most intense and inspirational documentaries of the year. The two of them were kind enough to spend a few minutes talking with us about the film, which is now playing in theaters from National Geographic Documentary Films. Take a listen down below and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast iTunes Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to the Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Will Mavity's interview with the directors of the rescue.
0:07.9	Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Basar Heli.
0:11.5	Breaking news right now out of Thailand.
0:14.1	Rescue teams are working through the night to save 12 boys and their coach trapped inside a cave.
0:19.9	The monsoon had come early.
0:21.6	The conditions in the cave were impossible.
0:25.6	There was a very strong feeling that the children couldn't be still alive.
0:32.6	We need expert cave divers out here.
0:35.6	The Thai Navy SEALs put everything they had into it,
0:40.3	but only this group of people who do it as a weekend hobby has those skills.
0:45.3	I was thinking this has actually got our name all over it.
0:53.3	You couldn't see your hand in front of your face, trying to wriggle through holes that I couldn't wriggle through, finding a bigger space, sliding through, and then repeating again and again.
1:02.0	How many of you?
1:08.0	We look into each other's faces thinking we may be the only ones that ever see them.
1:16.6	Finding the boys was the easy part.
1:20.6	They didn't have a clue how to get those kids up.
1:26.6	We didn't think it was possible to dive the children out.
1:30.3	We came up with the actual logistical plan.
1:33.3	I told him that's a horrible idea.
1:35.3	And then Rick said it.
1:36.3	What if it's the only idea?
1:38.3	We were brutally honest.
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