I'm always kind of nervous because I'm aware that somebody else is trusting me with their life. I'm kind of a little bit more aware when I have someone else with me who's more of a wilderness rookie. Is it more difficult for you when someone is tagging along for the journey? Jake was saying, "Where's the relaxing chilling out in the wild?" And there we were, 5,000 feet up on a mountain trying to get our backsides out of there in one piece. The wind was so strong that they literally had a jumbo jet blown sideways at the airport. We did have some crazy conditions - some of the worst weather I've seen for years. We'll do a bit of climbing, and we'll just kind of jump into it." But he was thrown right in on the deep end. I was like, "The weather will be cool and it should be pretty mellow. I thought Iceland would be good because there's lots to do.
Why did you choose to take him to Iceland? Were you looking for a location that might be easier for him to handle? He was a fan of the show, and once we made the schedule work, we did it quite spontaneously. He said, "It's great, and if the paparazzi get to me, I just ring up my buddy Bear Grylls." And I go, I don't even know him! So I emailed him and we started talking about going on a proper adventure. Shara, my wife, saw him on some chat show, and he was asked what it is like to be famous. How did you decide to ask Jake to be on the show? (Hint: It includes him crying.) What follows is an excerpt of that conversation, in which the outdoorsman discusses the challenges of shepherding an A-list actor through the wild. In next Sunday's paper, we talk to Grylls about what to expect from rest of the new season. (You can catch a glimpse of that scary stunt below.) Unlike when he took Will Ferrell to the Arctic Circle, the weather is uncooperative: he and the "Love and Other Drugs" star brave 90 mph winds and individually pull themselves across a single rope suspended hundreds of feet over a deep ravine. Wild," Grylls takes Gyllenhaal to the Icelandic tundra.
He even gave himself an enema in the middle of an ocean.ĭuring the show's sixth season - new episodes begin airing on Discovery on Monday night - the 37-year-old will not only continue to push himself, but one very pretty, high-profile actor: Jake Gyllenhaal. Wild," has done plenty of challenging things during the nearly five-year run of the worst-case-scenario survival show.
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