“The water stuff was horrible. They built four or five tunnels that were designed based on the drawings of the Tham Luang cave. I mean, there were twists, turns, down, up, pitch points, stuff you had to go upside down. And we had safety divers, but it’s still water. And there was no f****** surface — they had holes on the side of the tunnel where the safety divers could watch us. Yeah, I definitely had a few anxiety attacks under the water.”

Nope. Nopenopenope. I mean, great, they had holes in the tunnel, “where the safety divers could watch us.” Watch them? Watch them drown? Honestly, I don’t know how the man slept during the shoot. I’m probably going to have nightmares tonight and I haven’t even seen the film yet. 

Farrell isn’t the only one who had anxiety attacks. Bateman, who plays diver Chris Jewel, said in the same article that they had an incredible camera operator who had to do some fancy moves to get the shots in. “The dude was, like, going backwards and stuff! So yeah, I had a hell of a lot of panic attacks in there,” he recounted. The real divers who helped with the rescue were consultants on the film, which helped, I’m sure, but I don’t know how you get past the panic this would cause. Maybe I’m just a ‘fraidy cat, but it makes me shudder, even thinking about it. 

“Thirteen Lives” was released in select theaters on July 29, 2022, and will hit Prime Video on August 5, 2022.