00:00Get to the post!
00:07A lot of people have never seen this time period in American history on film.
00:11Twenty years before, Lewis and Clark had crossed the country with nobody else.
00:16It was an uncharted territory.
00:18This Northwest Territory was inhabited by indigenous people, the French and the English.
00:23It wasn't really America yet. Very little laws and rules.
00:27It became a place of great interest to earn the fur trapping trade.
00:31Ultimately, it was a source of massive income.
00:33Kind of like the pre-gold rush in a lot of ways.
00:36Tell me you've got some kind of plan.
00:41We have a group of us, the fur trappers.
00:44It's this crazy hodgepodge of people from all over the place.
00:47I've been out here so long, I'm actually starting to miss my wife's cooking.
00:49I'm actually starting to miss your wife.
00:51How'd you shut the door?
00:52We had a conversation, all of the cast and Alejandro.
00:56The theme of the film is survival and spiritual growth through physical pain.
01:01He said you're going to be in pain and that's planned.
01:04And that he wanted to film that then.
01:06It's one of the many things that Alejandro put in place for us,
01:09meant for a real more kind of immersive experience.
01:12We were all immersed in the wilderness, it was all around us.
01:15Everything has to pop as being real, because if you have a false moment, everything falls apart.
01:19Group has to move from being in control to being at the mercy of everything.
01:24You're forgetting your place, boy.
01:26Are you there?
01:28As far as I can tell, my place is right here on the smart end of this rifle.
01:33You move along, Fitzgerald.
01:34The fur trapper's life, it's mankind's first imprint on land in the Americas.
01:40It's a powerful thing.
01:42After six months working my ass off like a mule, risking my neck, men dying for what?
01:48Most of these trappers were runaways, were young people.
01:52Normally they own more at the end of their journey than what they were paid.
01:56I was hired to trap them.
01:59I wasn't hired to go to...
01:59You signed a contract to protect your boss and your boss's property.
02:04These were incredibly tough, resilient men out in the middle of the elements like any other animal in the wilderness.
02:15Scaling a mountain in minus 20 degree weather, from an actor's perspective, there's nothing better to actually do that.
02:22A lot of these locations were incredibly difficult to get to.
02:25We had a pretty massive crew that had to logistically move from location to locations through this really harsh winter
02:32landscape.
02:33Pretty difficult for everyone to pull off.
02:35Most of these locations are very pristine and there's something very pure and very spiritual in these places.
02:44Like these fur trappers, we had to adapt to our surroundings, reacting to what nature gave us.
02:51I ain't afraid to die anymore.
02:54I've done it already.
03:05I'm afraid to die.
03:08I've already died once.
03:09I'm already dead once.
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