Sandstorms, a broken bone: the extreme lengths Zac Efron went to for new film

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Anthony Hayes knew he needed a big name to finance his dystopian film Gold; what he didn’t count on was how hardworking and endurance-ready leading-man Zac Efron would be.

Film and television sets are essentially places where organisation aims to circumvent chaos, but even the best-laid plans can be undercut by cruel coincidence. For Anthony Hayes and the crew he’d assembled for, a desert survival thriller about a man trapped with his own desperation, that moment came when the shooting of a scripted sandstorm couldn’t happen because their location in outback South Australia was being battered by a real life sandstorm.

“I just thought, ‘This is exactly what we’re trying to capture here, we should just shoot this thing’,” remembers Hayes, a successful actor directing his second feature film. “The question was whether Zac would do it, so I’ve gone to his trailer and said, ‘Hey mate, I really want to shoot in this sandstorm.

 

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