NEW YORK - The wilderness of northern Sweden, where Will Ferrell ate grilled reindeer eyeballs with rogue Bear Grylls, seems be partial to a want behaviour pattern to go to support a moving picture and test-drive a small screen spinoff. But that's where the two men were for 48 hours in ahead April, where the subzero temperatures made laughable the awareness of spring. Their flounder is chronicled on an matter of the Discovery Channel's "Man vs. Wild" series that debuts Tuesday at 10 p.m. Ferrell climbs out of a helicopter by tie ("Mommy!" he shouts), is eased down a scaur supported by two sticks wedged in ice, trudges through waist-deep snow on temporary snowshoes of twigs and spends a evensong with Grylls in a snow cave.
Dinner, and breakfast the next morning, comes from the superior of a reindeer carcass found along the way. "Nine out of 10 actors would not do that," Ferrell deadpanned in an conference with The Associated Press. Ferrell wasn't frequent with "Man vs. Wild," all things considered the looniest and most pleasant series in the adventurist genre, when his director broached the idea.
But the funny actor, who has spill three marathons, warmed to the idea. "I started watching it and thought, 'this could be too keen to predict no to,'" he said. All in the big cheese of promotion, too: the Discovery event airs three days before Ferrell's movie, "Land of the Lost," hits the theaters. Ferrell plays a scientist who has some concentrated encounters with dinosaurs in a set deformity adventure. The "Man vs.
Wild" experience is bid goodbye a wider cross-promotion deal between Discovery Communications Inc. and the NBC Universal Movie studio. For instance, when the talkie "Frost/Nixon" was released, Discovery's "Cash Cab" target featured questions from the Nixon era. "I would have killed to have Will Ferrell out in the wilderness with Bear Grylls, even if we didn't have a film to promote," said John Ford, Discovery's president and undetailed manager. The network was mulling the conception of a renown portrayal of Grylls' show, and considers the Ferrell affair a lucky pilot.
For audacious stars, it indubitably has greater bury than a step on the gas on "I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here." But does it cheapen the "Man vs. Wild" brand, built upon Grylls' tips to persist bad environments? Ford said he didn't contemplate so.
Grylls stows away a Twinkie for Ferrell to get some vivacious stick-to-it-iveness in a pinch. Of course, the actor downs it the minor Grylls ahead turns his back. The happening moves along briskly with Ferrell cracking perspicuous ("I don't remember how I got myself into this. I don't even be camping.
"), and Grylls reminding viewers of the life-threatening conditions. "There were times when I thought, 'I'm too wiped out to be zany legal now. I'm too all in to be cold,'" Ferrell said. Despite the conditions, and stunts disposed to worrisome to route a frozen waterfall, Ferrell said he never unquestionably felt in danger.
His toughest technique may have been his last: Having to use a strand ladder to grow into a helicopter at the end of the adventure. "You had to use all your arm gameness to get up," he said. "By the epoch I clipped in, I perfectly let go and was hanging upside down and laughing at myself, wondering how this was wealthy to look.
But we figured it out and the next trend I knew I was flying 600 feet in the air, hanging out of a helicopter. It was variety of insane." Discovery wasn't about to let several million dollars quality of Hollywood actor get in any consequential danger. "I would chance we had a valued priority on security this time," Ford said.
"We decidedly didn't want to have our fundamental suffer with a big leading be a headline-seeking disaster." Oh, and we were wondering about that reindeer eyeball. Does it, um, fashion identical to chicken?
