Ladies will love looking at Josh Duhamel with his short off in the Brazilian horror movie Turistas. At least it's fun for someone because filming the movie was intense.
Interview: Josh Duhamel on Turistas
"I remember getting pissed off at one point because every time I turned around, I'd gash my hand doing something or I'd cut my hand or cut my feet," said Duhamel. "It was always something. And it's like, at least if you know we're going to be diving in the mud, like when the guy's shooting at us, it's like a regular yard, and there's sticks and stuff everywhere. It's like, at least prep it a little bit. We know we're going to be diving in it. I don't want to be landing and like jabbing my hand with sticks anymore. I was so sick of it. Or the dog cage, when we were all sitting in the dog cage, they put like that steel wire stuff up, but they didn't prep it. Because they knew I was going to be like trying to stab the guy through the thing, yet there's these little barbs sticking out everywhere and I'm getting cuts all over. But it's part of it. And in the end, it all made it feel more real. I was pretty gung ho throughout the movie, and by the end, I was ready to go home, but I think it was all worth it."
Duhamel plays a big brother chaperoning his sister's trip to Brazil. Thanks to some hard partying and ignoring of local customs, the group becomes a target for local organ harvesters. At least the actors got to hang out in paradise, though filming took them to the toughest parts of the region.
Josh Duhamel, Olivia Wilde and Beau Garrett in Turistas
Turistas
"I wouldn't say any of them were hardships. I knew going in that it wasn't going to be a pleasurable movie to make. But I would say the lowest was, there was like this underwater cave. They were like national park things that they have, and people go down and they stand outside of it, and they can look at it, but they can never go in. So we got access to this, to go down. And the water's only this deep, and then it goes deeper and deeper as you go. But you had to take these paddle boards and swim out. You couldn't stand in the sand because they have these protected crustaceans, so you had to swim out. There was this little cave where, because nobody's ever back there, the bats live in these things. And that's where all the bats are. So there's like this long tunnel with water going through, and we're like swimming through it. And of course, [director John] Stockwell wants to get the nicest visual for the shot, so he sprays down all the walls, makes sure that they get it all nice and wet and glisteny so it looks creepier. But there's like 500 years of bat sh*t on these things. And then we have to go trudging through it, and like, 'Okay, now pretend like there's a hole underneath, and you gotta dive down!' And we're like, 'This is like bat dropping soup.' And I was like, 'Okay, this is officially the worst moment of this movie.' But whatever. It was all fun. It was fine."
Duhamel did gain some pseudo-life guarding skills through the underwater caving. "I just know like the distance we had to go. We had to start here, I have to go down underneath this rock formation, and then come back up. And in all your clothes and stuff, it makes it more difficult. But some of those guys, like the guys that were chasing us, the bad guys, are actual spear fishermen. So they can swim underwater for a long time. Especially the one dude that was chasing her, and he's kind of slow underwater. He goes under for like three, four minutes and he can stay under. I couldn't do that. But it was definitely a challenge physically, and I think that's what Stockwell wanted. He didn't want us to have trailers or any of the amenities that you normally have on a movie set. He wanted it to be as rough and sort of miserable as possible. Because it sort of shows up in the movie, and I think that that was his intention."
Turistas opens to theatres on December 1st.
For the trailers, poster, synopsis and more movie info, go to the Turistas Movie Page.
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