‘That was one of the things that convinced the survivors and the families of the dead, the fact that to me, it was not a story of cannibalism.’ Society of the Snow, according to Bayona, explains to audiences that ‘this is not a horror story, this is a story about love and friendship and camaraderie that arises in the worst moment’. But they never went through feeling like that.’ It was not a horror story, that was part of what they had to do. ‘And that’s the way they felt when they sat down with Pablo Vierci and decided to write another book, because for them, this story was an example of generosity, of finding love in the most horrific situations. ‘I used to tell them that, to me, the cannibalism started when they came back, and suddenly the press and the media started to use their story in a way that felt wrong.

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In fact, Bayona shared that it was one of the main points he made when initially approaching the Anders crash survivors and the relatives of those who died. I remember lots of times having conversations between production and their coaches because they were very protective with the actors all the time.’įor Bayona, the most important aspect of Society of Snow is that love and friendship flourished even at the limit of human endurance, and not the sensationalist shock of cannibalism. ‘But we were taking constant care of them, and the group of coaches were very demanding. They understood, and actually the scene looks really good. We decided to go with them, hand in hand. However, hot towels were always on hand to warm up the actors between the physically and emotionally draining takes. ‘It’s the hardest moment in the story and probably it was the hardest moment in the shoot,’ the Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom director mused. The film helped bridge the gap between the survivors and the families of the dead (Picture: Sipa/Rex/Shutterstock)īayona singles out the avalanche scene as the most demanding for the actors to do, waiting under a wood platform to come up to the surface, pushing through a layer of snow. ‘So they never went through that, really, with this level of trauma – it was more about the fact that some of them were dying on the plane, and that made the journey more emotional for the actors in that sense, not in the sense of what they had to do with their bodies of their friends.’ I remember a line from the survivors telling me that first day they were feeling miserable, and the second one, were in a line, waiting for their ration of food. ‘What they were doing with the food, they turned that into a routine. So that actually was the whole point of the movie, to remove the horror from these horrific moments. ‘I remember comforting a couple of actors the day we played Numa Turcatti’s death – they were really touched the moment. Bayona was insistent that Society of the Snow would not be a horror film, focusing on gore(Picture: AP Photo/Ashley Landis)īayona also revealed that the cast, which is made up mostly of newcomer Uruguayan and Argentine actors, were more affected by losing colleagues on set during the tough 140-day shoot than by eating (fake) human flesh.

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