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FEATURE
How did that wartime experience inform the
life that he came back to?
BC:
Well, he was honorably discharged from
the military and, for him, the saying hadn’t been
‘God, Family, Country,’ it was ‘God, Country,
Family.’ You can read about him or watch him
actually say that. Family had been last, and he
wanted to amend that. There’s a 90 per cent
divorce rate amongst SEALs, and he didn’t want
that to happen to his family. So, he made a
choice to put family first.
But when he got home, it wasn’t so easy to
make that transition and because he was willing
and physically able to fight, he would always
say, he wasn’t there anymore. So, he found
this other way of being of service, which was
helping veterans. He would put the gun back
into the vet’s hand to take the stigma away
from it – because there’s something that they
loved about it – and he knew that holding a gun
again could be therapeutic. He would do this
thing where he would drive up to this ranch and
go shooting with vets and drive back, get to
know them, hear their story, share his…
CE:
All the guys that he was helping in that
scene, with the exception of one actor, were all
vets, and they all knew the story. Bradley sat
down and chatted with them. We just started
talking about, ‘Well, who are you guys? How
do you guys feel about this? How do you feel
about war?’ The whole deal. And you get all
kinds of different people coming from different
directions. But I don’t think any of them had
any big regrets – not a lot of feeling sorry for
yourself there. Quite the opposite, in fact.
BC:
Yeah, they knew what to expect going
into it.
Bradley, can you talk about the experience of
working with Clint?
BC:
Well, he’s one of the reasons I wanted
to be an actor. The truth is when I was growing
up, I always thought there were two guys I
wanted to work with: Robert De Niro and Clint
Eastwood. And the fact that I’ve gotten to do
both is incredible.
I first started auditioning for Clint’s movies on
Flags of Our Fathers
and put myself on tape for
all of them. There was one thing that looked like
it was maybe going to happen, and then, when
that fell through, I thought, ‘Oh, wow, I can’t
believe it.’ Then this project happened, and it
was the perfect match.
Clint, what was it like for you to work with
Bradley?
CE:
I’ve admired him on film, and I voted
for him on his Academy Award nomination. I
think Bradley’s head’s up on this generation of
actors. He started in films with a lot of comedy
and slapstick in them, and they were great. The
job he did was terrific. But, then, I find a lot of
people who have a knack for comedy are great
dramatic actors, anyway.
He liked taking care of people.
He liked the leadership aspect
of it. I guess he felt that was
his calling. He worked hard to
become a great Navy SEAL
•
Thomas Plunkett
An Irishman fighting for the
British? Yep. Plunkett was a soldier
in the 95th Rifles who were raised to
specialise in the new Baker rifle. At the
Battle of Cacabelos in 1809, Plunkett
shot a French general from 600 metres;
and then the trumpet major attending to
the mortally wounded General to prove
it wasn’t a fluke. When you consider the
average effective range for the smooth
bore musket of this day was 50 metres,
Plunkett’s kills with the Baker rifle were
extraordinary.
•
Lyudmila Pavlichenko
Ukrainian Pavlichenko was one
of the first troopers to enlist
following Hitler’s decision to invade
Russia in 1941. A proven amateur
sharpshooter, it wasn’t long before she
started clocking up the Nazi kill count,
and ended the war with 309 confirmed
kills. The most successful female sniper
during the Second World War.
•
Carlos Norman Hatchcock
Remember Barry Pepper’s shot
through the German sniper’s
telescopic sight in
Saving Private
Ryan
? Hatchcock did it for real.
When an enemy North Vietnamese
sniper was sent in to hunt him, he too
went on the offensive. After seeing a
flash of light in the jungle, he took aim
and fired. Hatchcock calculated that for
his shot to go right through the enemy's
sight, the NVA sniper would have been
just about to pull the trigger on him.
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