There’s a disclaimer - Netflix has kind of buried it, but if you click on “view credits” at the end, there is a disclaimer that says we have created scenarios. I’m sure viewers would be happy to know that the dog was not actually out there for 36 hours waiting to be rescued by Bear Grylls. I don’t want to pull back the curtain too much, but obviously we had to have the dog walk to leave prints. Was a producer out there putting dog prints in the ice? As we put obstacles in front of him, we’d say, “What are two ways you could do this?” And off he’d go. It’s much easier for him to improvise if there is some uncertainty. Bear didn’t know where the dog was, so we as the producers tried to stay one step ahead of Bear. We created that sandbox for Bear to play in. It’s this weird straddling of the two, right? Obviously the dog wasn’t really stranded. Obviously we’re not gonna let that happen, because we’ve gotta move on and shoot the next scene.įor the episodes that have more of a story frame, like the one where he has to rescue the dog, how much did Bear know going in? Did he know where the dog was going to be, or did he figure that out in real time? Because the fact is, you’re out there too long, you’re gonna get hypothermia. The medic would come over with a blanket and give him some hot water and things. And it was for Netflix Kids, so I didn’t know how they’d feel about naked Bear Grylls.īut of course we have blankets, and we have a medic standing by in case he gets himself in real trouble. I was like, “Aw man, we should be filming this!” But it was too late to capture it. The cameramen stopped because they had to change batteries, and they needed a break because those cameras weigh 40 pounds. Sorry, the immediate aftermath is him naked and rolling in the snow?Ĭorrect. What he actually did was he stripped down, because his clothes were soaking wet, and started rolling in the snow to get the wet stuff off of him. Wild days, you’ve seen him jump into things like that naked, with no editing. He was really in that lake, wasn’t he? How dangerous is that? Do producers swarm him and warm him up as soon as he gets out?īear’s tough. Then what happens? Because on the show, he hauls himself out of the lake and the episode ends. Bear was like, “If you crawled, you’d be alright, but I wouldn’t walk across it.” And we were like, “In this case, Bear, the viewer is making a mistake.” So he walked across it and eventually, sure enough, he fell through. We knew you should probably not go out on that ice. But once you’re on the frozen lake, he knows he’s probably going to fall through it unless he crawls, right? You always get funneled onto the frozen lake, for instance. There are some circumstances where both options work. So then we’d say, “Okay, that worked, so this moves us on to the next obstacle.” Or, “Shoot, that really screwed up. What I meant by the improvisation was, whether Bear fell off the log or not, or whether he made it across on the vine, we didn’t know which way was going to be right and which was going to be wrong until after he did it. We were straddling the unscripted and scripted worlds in a way I’ve never done before. He’d do both, and then once he would do one, we had a change of clothes if he needed for continuity.
What are two ways you could do that?” And he’d be like, “I could try to swing across on this vine, or I could try to balance on the log and get across.” He’d know in his mind which was the better bet, the safer bet, but we’d let the viewer play with him a little bit, almost like he was their action figure. So there’s a sandbox, but then you also have to intervene to do multiple versions, right? How did you decide when to intervene?īasically we’d be like, “All right, Bear, you’ve got to get across this river. The way this show works, Bear has to do different versions of the same thing. You give him a sandbox and then launch him. I’ve worked with Bear for five years now, and that’s his thing. We’ve got a talent who shows up in a sandbox we’ve prepared, and he improvises his way through everything. The thing I would say it’s most akin to is Curb Your Enthusiasm. There’s a couple two-parters in there, but they were each five days per part. And then we shot for about five days per episode. Basically, Bear would send us to places he thought would be interesting for adventures. It was months and months of pre-production. How long did it take to shoot these eight episodes?
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