It took me a while to get back to eating properly afterwards. Hes made 10 films since the final Potter movie in 2011, with roles including playing beat poet Allen Ginsberg in Kill Your Darlings (2013) and putting a new spin on the hunchbacked assistant Igor in 2015s Victor Frankenstein. In two of his recent indies, hes really gone for it in survivalist tales (though, admittedly, he was not the survivor in Swiss Army Man) that dont skimp on the details of all that can go wrong with the human body. He By entering your email and clicking Sign Up, you're agreeing to let us send you customized marketing messages about us and our advertising partners. Theres something special about Israel, he says. Ghinsberg forms a rather mismatched group of would-be adventurers in Bolivias capital city, La Paz. Theres espionage without the hummus or hair gel in Steven Spielbergs Munich (2005), in which Eric Banas Mossad agent Avner is an angel of death pursuing Palestinian terrorists following the 1972 Olympic Games massacre. Then, she also became the first doctor to ever perform a cesarean section, and she lived her whole life as a man. Nearly two generations of world travelers and adventurers have grown up with Yossi Ghinsbergs best-selling memoir Back from Tuichi, his story of survival in the Bolivian Amazon in 1981. WebRadcliffe stars in the harrowing true story of Israeli traveler Yossi Ghinsberg, who spent three weeks lost alone in the Bolivian rainforest in 1981 after getting separated from the He used his rubber boots to collect whatever rainwater he could. He ended up staying for three years and returns often. No one wants to hear actors talk about how hard shoots are, Radcliffe first said when asked about what he was proudest of on his new film, Jungle, the real-life survival story of Yossi Ghinsberg, a man who beat the odds and lived for three weeks while stranded in the Amazon. But if you ever have the chance to chat with the actor, there is one thing you should avoid asking him, which HuffPost found out in an interview last week. Ghinsberg was born in Israel to Romanian immigrants who had been spared a measure of Holocaust pain: His father spent a difficult five years, the entire war, laboring in a German-run logging camp in Siberia. supports HTML5 We earn a commission for products purchased through some links in this article. Again, I dont want to started Radcliffe, One of my pet peeves is actors who I think the classic example of it is always boxing movies. Im not a method actor or anything, but I feel like I would be making my job much harder if I would go home and eat steak and potatoes every night so I just massively cut down on eating. 2023 CBS Interactive Inc. All Rights Reserved. I was going home and staying in a hotel at night, and Yossi actually lived it. In one particularly unappetising teaser, Dan uses a pen knife to cut a parasitic worm out of his forehead. Piers Morgan defends Jeremy Clarkson over 'being cancelled by ITV' despite past feud, Dan Walker thanks make-up artist for 'covering up the bruises' after horror bike accident, Graham Norton feared losing Eurovision presenting job ahead of 2023 competition. In last years magical Swiss Army Man, he played a gassy, much-manhandled corpse; now hes embracing the muck and mortifications of Jungle, a real-life survival tale from the Australian horror specialist Greg McLean. Is There Life for Gal Gadot Beyond Wonder Woman? The comedian played a Mossad agent-turned-hair stylist with his usual subtlety, but any film that turns a beachside game of matkot into an action-packed set-piece deserves respect. WebYossi Ghinsberg, Writer: Jungle. The BBC, citing local media, reported the two boys told their parents they had eaten nothing while lost and had had only rainwater to drink. The story recounts his three hellish weeks when a trek goes disastrously wrong, leaving him lucky to be alive and this viewer grateful he watched the movie on an empty stomach. Agence France-Presse contributed to this report. 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He says its the opposite. But when the skies dried up, he said he had to drink his own urine. My Tuesday night, Im going home. Web"It helped a lot to know about survival techniques: I had to consume insects, drink my urine, eat worms. I asked God for rain, Acosta said. But whats more remarkable than Radcliffes accent is the fact hes simply playing a normal Israeli in an English-language movie (albeit in an abnormal situation). I am and remain a huge fan of Sharknado movies. How do we show that? Watch Daniel Radcliffe cut a parasite out of his own head in this gross NSFW clip from Jungle, DIGITAL SPY, PART OF THE HEARST UK ENTERTAINMENT NETWORK. They did a very respectful job of staying true to the story. Im a proud member of the tribe.. Once he made a deal with producer and fellow Israeli Dana Lustig, it took 12 years to get Jungle made. You dont see Harry Potter when you watch it, Ghinsberg said. People live life fully. Just hit 'Like' on our Digital Spy Facebook page and 'Follow' on our @digitalspy Twitter account and you're all set. You expressed interest in Sharknado before. He used his rubber boots to collect whatever rainwater he could. Similarly, Yossis friends remain essentially enigmas, generic sidekicks without much to distinguish them beyond degrees of daring and propensity for bickering. A Bolivian who claimed to have been missing in the Amazon alone for a month, has recounted eating insects and worms, collecting water in his boots and drinking his own urine to stay alive. WebYossi Ghinsberg is an Israeli adventurer, author, entrepreneur, humanitarian, and motivational speaker based in Australia. He even made a flamethrower from mosquito Jungle is in select theaters and On Demand & Digital HD on Oct. 20. As well as the worm-head thing, in Jungle he's also sporting an impressive beard. 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He gives credit to Kevin Gale, the traveling companion from whom he was separated, for never giving up the search for his friend. In another well-known case in Bolivia, Israeli adventurer Yossi Ghinsberg survived three weeks in the Amazon in 1981, a feat which inspired a movie called Junglestarring Daniel Radcliffe. But his family is being deported because he has Down syndrome, 'Sickening, callous and brazen': Sydney man dies in hail of bullets in front of 12yo son, Mining giant offers help to rebuild flood-damaged town in lieu of payment for radioactive capsule search, How Maggie Dent's smart watch helped her avoid a potential stroke, and her message for women everywhere, Woman dies following police pursuit of erratic driver in Melbourne's west, Evelyn worked three jobs when she was in her 20s to build up her super. Then I realized theyd been fking with me the whole time, and had a perfectly good fake one., He did enjoy getting to know the real Ghinsberg, who consulted with him before and during the shoot. He said some of the most beautiful moments of his life were in those three weeks., As for the actor, I am very much not an outdoorsy kind of person, he admits. Indeed, I counted only one word of Hebrew throughout: Aba, in a painfully on-the-nose flashback scene with his Holocaust-surviving father. This interview has been condensed and edited. Acosta, a Bolivian, and 4 friends went hunting in the Amazon forest but got lost from the group on January 25. In 2011s Playoff, meanwhile, Danny Huston plays Israeli basketball coach Max Stoller, who causes a stir in 1980s Israel when he opts to coach in Germany. Sorry, this video isn't available any more. The startup was co-founded by Yossi Ghinsberg and Gal Bracha with headquarters in Tel Aviv and Ramallah, before relocating to Silicon Valley as a 500 Startup accelerated company. If I were an audience member, I would question that, even though now I know its true. In Brazil, pilot Antonio Sena survived 38 days in the Amazon jungle after making an emergency landing in 2021. I dont think I would be good in them. I think he did a tremendous job. I was attacked by animals.. This is actually not really the answer to your question, but its sort of half an answer to it [] there are two true stories Im blown away have never been made into amazing films that I know of. What was the reason? This gritty Australian drama sees Daniel take on the role of actual backpacker Part of HuffPost Entertainment. Disoriented, he said he walked about 40 kilometresin search of civilisation,but soon discovered he was going around in circles. It helped a lot to know about survival techniques: I had to consume insects, drink my urine, eat worms, he told Unitel TV on Tuesday. The Israeli adventurer was just 21 years old when he became stranded in the heart of the Amazon Im in two leagues, one that I run and one that Ive been in for a few years, and I actually managed to do well this year for the first time in a while, so, yes, thank you. Now, in Laws of the Jungle, Ghinsberg shares the profound truths the treacherous Amazon taught him. (Intriguingly, Michael Shannon will follow his villainous turn in The Shape of Water by playing Kurtz in the BBCs upcoming small-screen adaptation of the espionage thriller. The latest retelling, 7 Days in Entebbe, is already out in the United States and is released in Israel on March 29. Ghinsberg is most known for his survival story of when he was stranded in an uncharted part of the Bolivian Amazon jungle for three weeks in 1981 Ratings Friends & Following But self-surgery wasnt the worst part of his ordeal. It features three Mossad agents in 1960s East Berlin hunting a Nazi war criminal, and then catches up with them 30 years later in Israel. Many movies are inspired by a true story. 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"I asked God for rain," Acosta recounted. But Ghinsberg discovered he was stronger than he thought mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually. Totally the stuff of nightmares. They see a lot of gross makeup stuff. So that's how Harry Potter got his scar Yeeeuuuuukk! And it wasnt discovered until after she died that she had actually been a woman. It was not all bad. Boxers exist., He continued, Its not a thing that makes ourselves fucking special. That movie needs to be made. If confirmed, this could make Jhonatan Acosta, 30, one of the longest-ever lone Amazon survivors. This film about him is The best that can be said about Mirrens Israeli accent here is that it's slightly less painful than her Austrian one in 2015s Woman in Gold.. Despite friendly visions, Ghinsberg faced unbearably terrifying encounters throughout the three weeks in which he was alone. as Rabin and a year after starring in Jaws Richard Dreyfuss as Yoni Netanyahu. 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