What did Daniel Radcliffe pull out of his head in the Jungle?
For only those with a very strong stomach, here's a properly gross worldwide exclusive clip from Daniel Radcliffe's upcoming movie Jungle. In the scene, we see the former Harry Potter star carving a parasitic worm out of his own forehead with a pen-knife.
This movie has intense scenes, but the real story is even crazier. Yossi fell and got impaled by a stick in his rectum. There were a couple of things like the moment where I cut something out of my [character's] head. There was a worm in my head, and I cut it out, and that's a horrendous moment.
Yossi Ghinsberg has eaten monkey meat. He has felt his body rotting away from hunger and thirst. He stole and ate eggs from nests. This was in 1981 when he was lost in the Amazon rain forest and survived without any rations or implements.
“I actually went and shook a tree and showered myself with them because my feet couldn't carry me anymore and I needed to stand,” he says. “I showered myself with the fire ants and, on the waves of pain, I managed to get up and keep on going.”
According to Ghinsberg, he had hallucinations of a woman with whom he slept each night. Ghinsberg made his way back to the river and met Gale, along with indigenous people who had organized a search and rescue mission led by Abelardo "Tico" Tudela.
Kevin ropes in the help of the local boat pilot to search for Yossi, finally discovers his weakened friend, and takes him to Rurrenabaque. The epilogue reveals that Karl lied about the hidden tribes, was known to rope backpackers into dangerous treks, and was wanted by the authorities.
“Jungle” is a true story, based on Ghinsberg's memoir of his disastrous 1981 trek, and the real meat of it — pun intended — isn't fantastical: Yossi gets separated and must fight punishing nature and his deteriorating self just to survive.
He survived by his wits, a measure of luck and the sheer will to live, with hunger and loneliness his only companions. He was hallucinating and feverish by the time he was found on the brink of death. His story of survival received international attention, and he became a celebrity among international backpackers.
Did Daniel Radcliffe lose weight for the Jungle film?
To convincingly portray Ghinsberg's jungle-ravaged and deteriorating body during the ordeal, Radcliffe "really physically transformed himself", producer Gary Hamilton said. "He went through the most amazing transition," he said. Ghinsberg has said Radcliffe limited his diet to one egg per day in order to lose weight.
“Jungle,” the new adventure/survival film from Australian helmer Greg McClean (“Wolf Creek”), is based on the true-life story of adventurer and executive producer Yossi Ghinsberg, who became lost in the Amazonian jungle for three weeks in 1981.
Yossi Ghinsberg is a master storyteller with an epic story to share. Lost alone in the midst of the Amazon rainforest for three weeks, he not only survived, he found new meaning for his life and work.
It was a parasitic worm. A parasite, the real Yossi had to cut about 18 of those worms out of him. But as Daniel Radcliffe said “There's a limit to what people will watch.” The real Yossi also fell and got speared in the rectum.
In 2008, Radcliffe revealed that he has a mild form of the neurological disorder dyspraxia, which sometimes prevents him from doing simple activities such as writing or tying his shoelaces. He said, "I was having a hard time at school, in terms of being crap at everything, with no discernible talent."
In real life, Marcus Stamm, a character from the movie "Jungle," disappeared during the Amazon jungle expedition led by Yossi Ghinsberg. Unfortunately, Stamm did not survive, and his fate remains a tragic part of the true story.
The condition that Marcus suffers from (and later Yossi) that causes him pain in his feet is called Trench Foot. It is a serious condition that is caused by feet being wet for too long which can ultimately cause skin and tissue breakdown, increasing the risk of infection and associated mortality.
But after doubts arise regarding the motives of their leader and a serious foot infection renders one party member incapable of continuing, the group decides to split in two. Determined not to cut the adventure short, Ghinsberg and his companion, Kevin Gale, opt to return to civilization by raft rather than on foot.
After the book's publication, Roosevelt wasted no time in directing the U.S. Department of Agriculture to investigate Sinclair's claims. It reported back that The Jungle was mostly lies and exaggerations.
Marija has become addicted to morphine. Jurgis is eager to find a job before he goes to see Elzbieta. One night Jurgis wanders into a socialist political rally, where he is transformed. The novel ends with a hopeful chant of revolt: “Chicago will be ours.”
A Bolivian man has described how he managed to survive for 31 days in the Amazon jungle after he got lost. Jhonattan Acosta, 30, got separated from his four friends while out hunting in northern Bolivia.
At age 21 Yossi was lost alone in the Amazon jungle for 3 weeks, he now translates the survival lessons he learnt in the jungle into the business setting and teaches companies leadership lessons through his speeches.
