![]() Gray was filming a scene between Pattinson and Hunnam when people warned him that the river was rising. Apparently they are very docile and don't really attack people, but to me this thing looked as mean as could be." "The next day we were filming on the boat when I saw this big crocodile-looking thing in the river. "I got in the river one day with the local kids and had the best day ever, but I didn't realize the water was filled with black caimans, which are like giant alligators," Holland said. Holland spent some time on set for his jungle scenes, and inadvertently swam with black caimans, the largest predator in the Amazon basin. Tom Holland plays Fawcett's eldest son, Jack, who joins his father on the 1925 expedition in which they disappeared. The animals will leave you alone until you start smashing the jungle.'" Tom Holland swimming with caimans: After someone in the crew got in the neck by a snake, they asked me and Charlie to go into virgin jungle with blunt machetes, and all the Colombians were telling us, 'There's a reason you don't go off the path. We were worried about Arbor Vipers that drop from trees and bite you in the face. "And giant, gorgeous, bright blue frogs that will kill you. "There were enormous spiders and snakes everywhere," he said. ![]() Robert Pattinson, who plays Fawcett's aide-de-camp Henry Costin in the film, described the jungle environment as "pretty sketchy," especially when he and lead Charlie Hunnam, who plays Fawcett, were tasked with chopping down parts of the forest with machetes. In notes provided to press before a screening of the film, here's some of the craziest, most horrific stories from the set.įor anyone afraid of, well, any animals that reside in the jungle, you've been warned. The cast and crew endured a ton of setbacks, ranging from flash floods and sweltering heat to very personal encounters with beetles and snakes. Gray, for his part, was committed to shooting The Lost City of Z in remote forest locations all the better to get a sense for what Fawcett and his teams had undergone in the early 20th century. The film is based off the book of the same name about Fawcett's repeated trips to the Amazon to find a hidden civilization, which he referred to as the "City of Zed." The film, directed by James Gray, had a six-week shoot in the jungles of Santa Marta, Colombia, for the scenes that depicted the Amazon rainforest where real-life adventurer Percy Fawcett once explored. While there's a general consensus that Alejandro González Iñárritu's The Revenant was the film shoot from Hell, the adventure epic The Lost City of Z might give it a real run for its money.
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