"This movie allowed us the opportunity to serve something." "I could only say, 'I will take what you are sharing and I'm going to try to love that person like I had known him all my life, the way you loved your son, brother or husband,' " says Foster. "We just listened to them," says Foster, who found that Axelson's family found it was an important character trait that the SEAL did not curse. Once on the set, Berg organized a gathering of the SEAL community - this included family and friends of the deceased SEALs. "Most directors don't go that deep, that hard, that dirty. "He was one of the last civilians to be able to do that and that brought an editorial perspective which is quite unusual," says Foster. The two bonded over a road trip from Luttrell's Texas ranch to the New Mexico set.įoster was impressed that the film's director, Peter Berg, was granted permission and accepted the challenge of being embedded with the SEALs before shooting.
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