Colin Farrell Had Panic Attacks While Filming Underwater Scenes for ‘Thirteen Lives’

Thirteen Lives,” Ron Howard’s new film about the Tham Luang cave rescue, is the most elaborate attempt yet at giving the Hollywood treatment to one of the most dangerous rescue missions in recent memory.

The production meticulously recreated the Tham Luang caves where twelve youth soccer players and their coach were trapped underwater.

Apparently, they did such a good job that even stars like Colin Farrell were terrified by the experience.“Terrifying in a word.

Terrifying,” Farrell said in a new interview with Entertainment Tonight.

“It really was.

It was scary.

I’m not a great swimmer anyway, not that we were swimming, not that we were treading water, we had to stay on the surface, but they built a really impressive network of caves, it was about four or five different caves that were based on the topography of the caves, the Tham Luang caves in Thailand, and

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