00:00It was challenging and thrilling and important to say we did this for real.
00:06No soundstage, no studio, no green screen.
00:09We were on real mountains in the foothills of the Himalayas, in Nepal,
00:13and also on the higher mountains of the South Island and New Zealand.
00:18So when you see Gendon climbing out of a crevasse as Tenzing,
00:23that's Gendon at the bottom of a crevasse and climbing up a wall of ice.
00:28When you see me as Edmund Hillary falling into a crevasse,
00:33that really happened to Hillary, and it really happened to me.
00:36They dropped me into a crevasse and I had to climb out of it.
00:43Together, there's a 40-foot ridge of rock and ice on Everest called the Hillary Step now,
00:48because Hillary was the first to summit it.
00:51And they did it together.
00:53And we found a 40-foot ridge of rock and ice outside Queenstown in New Zealand.
00:58And we climbed it for real.
00:59And when you look over the edge, there's a precipitous drop all the way down to the bottom.
01:05Don't look down and don't fall down.
01:07Yeah.
01:09But it was our honour, our privilege, our thrill,
01:13because as actors, we're not performing what we're doing.
01:21We are living in the shoes of these great men
01:24and following in their footsteps, literally, in the same environment.
01:28So it was a challenge, but we embraced the challenge.
01:31Yeah, yeah.
