Soon enough he had locked the trailer door and read it cover to cover. “It’s really just the spirit of this guy and who he was and the legacy he’s left, who he was with these guys, these relationships,” he said.īerg was first given the book when he was shooting the film “Hancock.” He said it’s difficult to get him to sit down and read a book under the best of circumstances, let alone while working, but he went into his trailer during his lunch break and started flipping through it. Kitsch, who plays Medal of Honor recipient Mike Murphy in the film, echoed the sentiment, noting that it was more about capturing something intangible. And as someone who has played his share of real-life characters, whether boxer Micky Ward in “The Fighter” or football player Vince Papale in “Invincible,” the pressure to make the inspiration for the character proud was all the more apparent here. “Anybody that sits up here and talks about how hard they worked, it’s bullshit compared to what they do for us and what they continue to do,” the actor said. But war changes all the rules.īrown attempted to dig in on the training the actors went through to prepare for their roles, but Wahlberg instantly doused it. “‘SEALs kill kids,’ that’s the CNN headline,” Wahlberg’s Luttrell pleads in the film. That’s in fact part of the moral territory the film is attempting to navigate. “He’d much rather have been Leavenworth, with his brothers alive,” Wahlberg said during the Q&A. And Luttrell has plainly said that if he had the whole thing to do over again, he would have made a different decision. With a compromised mission and a moral conundrum, the decision was made to free the locals and fall back while trying to re-establish communications with their base at Bagram Airfield. She keeps me out of the shadows.”ĭuring the mission, Luttrell and four of his comrades (played by Taylor Kitsch, Ben Foster and Emile Hirsch in the film) were discovered during a reconnaissance mission by local Taliban-loyal goat herders. I missed the adrenaline and missed my buddies. I think it was more along the lines of I was just bored. The only problem I had was when they released me, when I couldn’t do the job anymore. “The hardest part wasn’t getting back on the horse, so to speak, and going back into combat,” Luttrell, who after recuperating from his Afghanistan tour turned right around and re-deployed for Iraq, said.
“I died up on that mountain,” Wahlberg says in voiceover as the film’s final moments flicker on the screen, and indeed, it was clear hearing Luttrell speak that he lost a bit of himself that day. He told the audience matter-of-factly, completely unmoved by the Hollywood machine, about his ordeal and the toll it took. A riveting depiction of the mission, called Operation Red Wings, the film eschews traditional structure and launches its players into the heart of darkness quickly before tearing through a 33-minute recreation of the firefight itself that recalls such nail-biting sequences as those captured by Steven Spielberg in “Saving Private Ryan” or Ridley Scott in “Black Hawk Down.”Īt a post-screening Q&A tonight moderated by journalist Tina Brown, Luttrell, of course, received a standing ovation, his loyal golden retriever at his side. That tale was captured on the page in his 2007 memoir “Lone Survivor” and it has now been captured on the big screen by director Peter Berg with Mark Wahlberg in the starring role as Luttrell. He sustained facial bone damage, he was shot “through and through” his quads and his calves, his body was riddled with shrapnel from his ankles to his eyes…and he lived to tell the tale.
He tore out his shoulder, bit his tongue in half and crushed his hand. In June of 2005, during a firefight with Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan that would claim the lives of three of his fellow Navy SEALs, Petty Officer First Class Marcus Luttrell broke his back.
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