Shift Your Perspective of What's Possible | Jimmy Chin

Jimmy Chin (0:00)

The thing is, is I didn't know he was going to free solo Al Cap. It was just pitched as like a story, a film about Alex and his free soloing.

In the process of kind of vetting the idea, my wife Chai was like, you know what, I need to spend some time with him and get to know him. And in the time that she spent with him, you know, she spent two days with him, and I was like, hey, what'd you think of Alex? She's like, he's very, very interesting. And by the way, he told me that he's going to go free solo El Cap. Isn't that great? Because Chai isn't from the climbing world.

And he didn't understand what that meant. And she said, that's a perfect, like focal point for the film. And I just said, there's absolutely no way we can make that film. Introducing a camera to a situation, no matter who you are, even if you're Alex Honnold, changes the situation. And when the margins of success, that is the difference between life and death, are so thin, that the idea of the camera being there, or the pressure of a production around what he was doing, was even for him, if he barely felt it, but if that was the amount that it took for things to go bad, I was like, I don't want to carry that responsibility. And funny enough, we let the cat out of the bag at a meeting with Nat Geo, and before we could even say anything, they were like, we'll finance that film.

And I was like, actually, I'm not gonna make that film.

Michael Gervais (1:57)

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