“We still call each other brother now.”
Chris WoodandGrant Gustinare trading in theirArrowversesuperhero suits for some snow gear inSnowshoe.
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Where did you get the idea to makeSnowshoe?
Chris Wood reunites with Grant Gustin in ‘Snowshoe’.Courtesy of Chris Wood
CHRIS WOOD:I’ve been doing a lot of writing and just wanted to change gears.
When did you start working on it?
I was up in Vancouver working in early 2021.
‘Snowshoe’.Courtesy of Chris Wood
How did Grant get cast to play your brother?
I’ve been friends with Grant for a long time I went to college with him.
Also, I think we pass as brothers; we have the same-ish color hair and similar enough faces.
We ended up making it all happen within five weeks from draft to completed film.
It was pretty fast.
There was a lot that could have gone wrong, and we got really, really fortunate.
We had an amazing crew that really had to go through it with this one.
What was it like working together on something not in the Arrowverse?
Oh my gosh, we had a great time.
But hey, it’s just these guys.
That’s how they talk.
I don’t know what to tell you!
[Laughs]
And in the same way that I was, he was hungry for a different challenge.
He’d been doingThe Flashfor so many years.
When he read the script, he just totally got it off the page.
We still call each other brother now.
I think it’s permanent.
Where did you get the inspiration to do it all in one take?
It also sometimes makes it more comedic I wanted to ride that line right in the middle.
It was a lot of Saturday gatherings, spending as long as we could figuring it out.
And then we have to get back down before the sun sets.
It was attractive to our whole team because of just how many ways it could go wrong.
What was it like filming up there on the day?
We were doing our best to confirm we could get it all done.
We ended up only getting three takes, and thankfully we got it on the last take.
It’s one of my favorite filming experiences to date.
Why is mental health something you want to focus on in projects like this?
This is a prime example of two guys getting it very, very wrong.
With masculinity, there’s a culture of disconnect and holding back on this stuff that really matters.
How do you explore that inSnowshoe?
What are the chances we’ll see you back in the Arrowverse before it all ends withThe Flashseries finale?
[Laughs] I think my spandex days are over at least that set of spandex.
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