Proof of Life

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So in 2000, while playing rugby, 16-year-old Henry Cavill met actor Russell Crowe, who was shooting on location at Stowe, where his boarding school was, for the film Proof of Life.

And the actor shared some acting tips and later sent Cavill a package, and the two actors would later work together on Man of Steel.

So that was a little, you know, cute run-in.

Yep.

it's a surprisingly deep cast actually you have gibson and gary sinise and donnie walberg and a handful of other people and the other is probably uh proof of life with russell crowe and meg ryan which is a different kind of kidnapping that's um somewhere in south america i want to say columbia but don't quote me and the gorillas kidnap americans there all the time so much so that you know kidnapping is part of a business it's a whole thing anyway one of the things that those stories do fundamentally understand to one degree or another they they fumble the ball in different places but what's going on with the kidnappers is an important component of what makes these stories tick yeah this movie never puts us over there never introduces us to the kidnappers never shows us what's going on over there and you can if you choose not to do that that can be made to work in your favor be very clear but you have to be a lot defter with what you're doing than this where they don't have the narrative momentum or the story to support it like this what this is a better episode of television if you're going to do it in this uh perspective than it is a 90-minute movie or however long this thing was i

was going to say like the west wing handled this very same thing better

yeah and that that's kind of where this movie winds up falling flat is there's nothing here really worth engaging with there's nothing here to draw you in the performances are a little uneven uh very up and down in ways that you wouldn't necessarily expect you don't get invested in the kidnapping plot you don't get invested in ben affleck's ambitions you don't get invested in anything it's just a sequence of events frequently that barely connect to each other in any sort of real capacity

My guest for today is Miles Hargrove.

Miles has worked for more than 20 years behind the scenes in the film industry as a cinematographer, editor, and camera operator, including on major feature films such as The Last Castle and the Harry Potter series.

But long before his start in films, Miles was living with his family in Cali, Colombia, where his father, Thomas Hargrove, worked as a freelance journalist for the agriculture industry.

In 1994, Thomas was kidnapped by FARC rebels and held for nearly a year.

His wife, children, and friends banded together to negotiate with his captors for his release.

Afterwards, their ordeal became the basis for the film Proof of Life, starring Russell Crowe and David Morse.

Miles filmed everything that year using their home video camera, which he produced as the 2020 documentary Miracle Fishing, Kidnapped in Columbia.

But first, let me ask you this.

Yeah, he's really good in Long Kiss Goodnight.

Proof of Life.

St. Elsewhere? Like, that's where he got his start, I believe, on TV.

He's floated around a bunch, and I'm sure he's still working.

What's their band? Tears for Fears.

yes for fear is that he definitely has that kind of hair he actually has kurt thomas hair too he's got both of them kurt

smith he was in mayday he was in mayday recently which i didn't see really fun movie that's right he is very briefly but yeah he's yeah but we have to do we have to do proof of life at some point because it does really yeah you got caruso and morris in

a film come on is mika borum in proof of life