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‘Thirteen Lives’ Actor Tom Bateman Reveals Claustrophobia Filming Ron Howard’s Drama Of Thai Caves Rescue

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Tom Bateman has revealed the claustrophobia he suffered while filming Ron Howard’s film Thirteen Lives telling the story of the real-life rescue of 12 Thai boys and their coach from deep inside the Tham Luang caves.Bateman told the BBC how he had to use meditation to cope with the conditions, and even got stuck underwater himself at one point during filming.The British actor plays Chris Jewell, a British computer software consultant and expert cave diver who joined the rescue mission in northern Thailand in June 2018, after the boys went into the caves after football practice and got trapped by flood water.

Their plight was monitored tirelessly around the world until, after 18 days, they were brought out by an international team, supported by thousands of volunteers at the site.Of the filming process on set in Queensland, Australia, directed by double Oscar winner Ron Howard, Bateman told the BBC: “Every single day was a challenge for me.

I didn’t quite realise how it made you feel… I suffer greatly from claustrophobia and I did meditate a lot.”On one occasion, Bateman got stuck underwater for about seven minutes while guiding a stunt double through a narrow passage, when he got wedged between rocks.“I can remember feeling really hot and thinking, ‘I’m underwater, but I’m sweating.

I could just see my heart rate going up and up and up [on a pulse monitor].“But the beautiful gift of it was overcoming that… it’s all in your head.

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