![]() ![]() ![]() Long Way Up is hardly a political show, and yet, he said, “If they were terrible, bad countries that some people make them out to be, they just wouldn’t be like that, would they? There’s just certain people over your side, one person in particular, who’s very judgmental and dismissive of other people. The optics of friendly Southern and Central Americans throwing their doors open to strangers is not lost on Boorman. The sight of Boorman and McGregor, oozing goodwill and charm, chatting up-and sometimes hugging!-strangers is downright thrilling in a pandemic-stricken world. They wouldn’t go, ‘Oh, go away.’ They would then go try and plug it in somewhere else and turn ovens off so that it wasn’t drawing power. Sometimes you’d plug in and all the power would go down. We plunged houses and restaurants and all sorts of stuff into darkness. “We we always paid our way, but no one said no. Their way was certainly greased, to a certain extent, by a production crew unafraid to spend money, and the star power of Boorman’s traveling buddy. “We were very worried about, you know, asking and saying, ‘Would you mind?’” Boorman said. ![]()
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