You know playing anyone who is a real person and who was a good person you know that’s a responsibility unto itself but if they have passed on and then especially if they’ve passed on in a raw and recent context you know it brings a whole other set of responsibilities. This was a really deep human experience with beautiful people where we had a serious responsibility. I’ve never had such a large amount of that all at once such a concentrated amount and I have to tell you it was not just a movie for us, this was this was not just shooting a movie. I’ve never been surrounded by that much by that large amount of a reminder of death and life’s fragility and how beautiful people can be taken from us. I’m still connected with Andrew’s mom Debra we still text she texts me every Monday which I’m grateful for, she’s a beautiful woman and she reminds me of my mother. Most of the families travelled out from Prescott to the movie set in Santa Fe New Mexico which aren’t all that too far apart and we had many families of our Hotshots come out and visit us and support us and talk to us and answer questions and offer opinions and offer criticisms and just generally too my thinking be extremely generous of time and spirit. I did meet his family, we actually all over the period of time.

It’s an incredible true story and you play a real person Andrew Ashcraft how did you go getting into that character. Andrew Ashcraft (Alex Russell) in ONLY THE BRAVE.

The brave cast interviews