The actor who played Jaguar Paw isn’t Mayan.
MEL GIBSON APOCALYPTO MOVIE
Maria Isidra Hoil, who played the diseased Oracle Girl, had never seen a movie before she was cast. Some members of the cast were very inexperienced when it came to film. Many of the actors then had to learn Yucatec Maya for the film. Gibson wanted to cast non-actors for each role, which meant the casting process eventually stretched across three continents. The jungle scenes were shot just outside of the city of Catemaco and the pyramid city set was built in Veracruz. Instead, all filming took place in Mexico. The filmmakers originally looked into shooting in Guatemala and Costa Rica, but those countries’ jungles were too dense for a movie production. Hansen, Assistant Professor at Idaho State University and a specialist on Mayan culture, as a consultant to ensure a level of historical accuracy. Though the film exercises some dramatic license, Gibson hired Dr. Gibson was a stickler for authentic language.Īll of the dialogue is in the Yucatec Maya language. The director humorously-and morbidly-inserted a single frame of a man dressed as Waldo from Where’s Waldo into the scene where Jaguar Paw stumbles into a pile of dead bodies after the ritual sacrifice scene. The first teaser trailer for Apocalypto, made before principal photography of the movie itself, includes a hidden single-frame image of a heavily bearded Gibson standing next to a group of Mayan actors with a cigarette in his mouth.
As these stories show, making Mel Gibson’s sprawling Mayan adventure film was an epic journey in its own right.
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