Secrets from the set: Wilderness
- Filming for Amazon Prime's Wilderness took place on location in Canada and US
- READ MORE: He's a lying cheat. She's his revenge-seeking wife. The scene's set for a showdown in the wilderness in Jenna Coleman's tense new series
In this slick revenge-thriller, serial-cheat Will (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) is in grave danger.
When his wife Liv (Jenna Coleman) finds out he’s been unfaithful, she plots to kill him on their trip of a lifetime into the American wilderness – but filming the series proved perilous for the cast and crew, too.
Things went wrong on the very first day of the shoot. The team were scheduled to film a complicated hiking sequence where the couple run into Cara (Ashley Benson), who is Will’s lover, and her boyfriend.
Wilderness was filmed on location in Canada and the US to make it feel authentic, but as the crew discovered, shooting in nature is unpredictable.
Everyone was ready to start filming in Whistler, Canada (which stands in for California’s Yosemite National Park), when a wild storm knocked down the signal towers used for camera and sound. The crew had minimal visibility and couldn’t hear the actors’ dialogue.
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When Liv (Jenna Coleman) finds out that her husband Will (Oliver Jackson-Cohen), a serial-cheat, has been unfaithful, she plots to kill him on their long-awaited trip into the American wilderness
![While filming on location in Canada and the US, the cast and crew had to content with a wild storm, mosquitos and even bears](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2023/09/27/12/75863353-12562021-While_filming_on_location_in_Canada_and_the_US_the_cast_and_crew-a-7_1695814228313.jpg)
While filming on location in Canada and the US, the cast and crew had to content with a wild storm, mosquitos and even bears
Even worse, Jenna and Ashley had to walk over a hanging bridge made of wooden planks, but the storm made the bridge swing violently.
It could have been a disaster, but director So Yong Kim says she was reassured by the way everyone carried on: ‘It was an incredible moment. And a fantastically horrible first day.’
The dangerous situations didn’t end there. There are lots of mosquitoes in Whistler, but Ashley only told the crew that she was very allergic to mosquito bites the day before filming began.
‘She couldn’t even afford to get one bite,’ says So. ‘It was nerve-racking.’ Ashley doused herself with repellent and wore sheer tights which don’t show on camera.
As well as the mosquitoes, there were much larger creatures to contend with, the most fearsome being black bears.
One day the crew were shocked to find a mother bear and her cub rifling through the equipment. ‘We had to evacuate and the bear wrangler had to chase them out,’ recalls So.
Luckily for us, the real-life danger makes the series an even wilder watch.
- Wilderness is available on Amazon Prime Video.