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Ron Howard on new Thai cave rescue film : "Thirteen Lives"

07.29.2022 - By CBS NewsPlay

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Director and producer Ron Howard joins CBS News' Vladimir Duthiers to discuss his new film "Thirteen Lives" which chronicles the real-life 2018 mission to rescue a team of young boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave in Thailand. Howard discusses what drew him to the story, the challenges of replicating and filming the tight and dangerous conditions. He shares that actors Viggo Mortensen and Colin Farrell did their own diving for the film and even sometimes operated the cameras.

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