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Chris Pine Talks The Finest Hours

HaydnSpurrell HaydnSpurrell In an interview with Collider, Chris Pine discussed what drew him to the script for The Finest Hours, to which he described it as similar to a previous film he'd starred in, 'Unstoppable'.

The Finest Hours follows the 1952 true story rescue attempt by Coast Guard coxswain Bernie Webber (Pine) and his three-man crew off the coast of Cape Cod after a pair of oil tankers are split in two, leaving their crews stranded at sea. It is one of the greatest small boat rescue operations in U.S. Coast Guard history.

"It was just a quick, wonderful, dramatic read," Pine said of the script. "The ocean I find is very daunting, frightening, mysterious, and powerful. That intrigued me." That same time period during which the film takes place he said resonates with him, and his own character wanted to do something similar to all the men who sacrificed and fought on the frontlines.

Pine also said that they're "not reinventing the wheel with this story". In that sense, we can expect a straight forward tale of "blue collar men that go out and do great things and then go home".

Pine described the coast of Massachusetts, filming in the water, as "devastatingly freezing", but also a lot of fun. To him, it's mostly all just work (safe, he's mostly confident of). Though, as with all true story depictions, there is some dramatic licence taken to ensure it fits the big screen entertainment.

The Finest Hours opens on January 29, 2016.

Source: Collider

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