Matthew McConaughey on starring with his family in film about California’s deadliest wildfire

Matthew McConaughey explained how California, a film in which he tried to escape from deadly 2018 forest fires, explained how his family moves with two generations.

Oscar winning actor, 22 school children and teachers for a school bus driver Kevin McKay’ı plays with a violent hell for security.

But behind the scenes, the film was a family relationship for McConaughey.

Kevin’s mother and son were depicted by Mary Kathlene, a 93 -year -old mother of the actor in the first screen role, by Mary Kathlene ‘Kay’ McConaughey and her 17 -year -old son Levi.

“I never thought it was something to happen to be on a scene with these two,” Stars says.

The film is a real depiction of the destruction that causes a line of power after falling, and the sparks leave the Tinder-Kuru Sierra skirts.

The resulting forest fires Burned for 17 daysTo kill 85 people and to displace more than 50,000, to destroy most of the town of Paradise and most of the nearby communities.

Whereat Vulture named “Instant disaster Movie Classic”McConaughey is in front of Barbie’s American Ferrera, who plays teacher Mary Ludwig.

While Mary and Kevin are worried about the safety of their own families, they have to make divided decisions that can save or kill everyone on the bus.

There is a lot on Kevin’s plate – his father died, his mother is good, his marriage is broken, and his young son wants to go back with his mother.

This is before discovering that there is the only driver who can help Mary and children.

McConaughey said the casting decision was connected to director Paul Greengrass.

“Paul Greengrass began as a documentary filmmaker, so his interest in the facts is very important.”

Greengrass is undoubtedly the most famous for Bourne Action-Through Films starring Matt Damon. Other films include real -life dramas Captain Phillips and the second won the 2007 Oscar nomination.

It is known that it uses non -actors to play themselves, so using members of McConaughey’s family is part of this realism.

Levi took part after he asked his father to be constantly considered.

McConaughey, “the script always to my family, no matter what I present to my family,” he says.

“I tell the story and this character I play has a son. My son Levi comes to me and said,” Can I read it for that? “

“I went, ‘ha’. I didn’t say anything,” McConaughey remembers with a smile.

“I wanted to see how much you want.”

After asking four times in a few days, McConaughey acknowledged that he could send a selection film – but insisted that his surname had been removed.

When Greengrass saw the video, he immediately said “this child” before discovering who Levi was.

Kay, Greengrass McConaughey, jumped after asking if his mother would join the audition.

“Trust me, he’s an artist, but actually fell and broke his tail bone … And in the wheelchair,” he says.

This was not a problem for Greengrass, who published Kay after seeing the selection video.

The focus of Greengrass on reality meant that he had planned to use a virtual set around the bus to make a film.

“I got cold feet,” he says to the BBC. “As a filmmaker, I felt that I wasn’t so virtual. I wanted to be in a real world.

“Finally, there is a abandoned campus in New Mexico, in many ways we decided to do it for the truth.

“We built everything and we had all real tools and we were able to lay gas lines. For open reasons, we could not burn anything that creates particles in the air, because you can start a forest fire. But safe with gas burning.”

Wildfire is so dominant that the main character in the film was real, created by gas lines, or created by increasing visual effects using the shooting of real fires.

“My aim was to try to do the most realistic cinematic fever experience, Gree Greengrass adds.

Of course he can see how suitable this is – there are new fires worldwide, California in August.

“Wherever you look, you see these enormous forest fires – the world is burning – a part of the global dangers we encounter.

“What I like about this film was that he had these simple elements of the human story, and he still spoke with something universal.

“All intersecting stories in this film are about characters struggling with the idea of ​​quitting too late.

“I think this is the story of our world.”

One of the filmmakers of the film, Oscar -winning actress Jamie Lee Curtis, Lizzie Johnson’s Paradise Book: One Town’s Struggle of an American Forest Fire Survival After reading a Washington Post article about the survival struggle.

Kevin included a section about Mckay and Mary Ludwig.

Orum I remember looking at my husband and I said, ‘Well, this movie’.

Curtis called filmmaker Jason Blum with the idea.

“I think this will be the most important thing in our lives as filmmakers,” he said.

Greengrass then came to the ship and says that he was “withdrawn to people in the real world, that he was placed in extraordinary situations.”

“This always concerns me, because I think you see more than what makes us human.”

He felt “lucky” to get McConaughey and Ferrera, because “I love to put my movies” sit in such real world recordings.

Curtis also explains how the film brings new, close friendships with the real Kevin and Mary.

Kevin said his last happy memory with his mother who died since then, and the 2018 Film was when they saw Halloween’s Day together – Curtis played.

Meanwhile, he told the real Mary Curtis that they shared a “strange link” – Mary’s father came out with her mother, Janet Leigh.

“Mary told me, ‘I saw my father crying twice – the day my mother died and the day the mother died.’ ‘

“So strangely, this is a complete apartment.”

McConaughey praises the “victim” of the real -life couple, saying that they represented those who first replied during forest fires.

“The truth is that everyone in heaven is a hero.”

The lost bus will now be available in cinemas and Apple TV+ on October 3.