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the top of a mountain in southern new Zealand doing a shot like this? You have to take the moment for what it is and just enjoy it I think.”

After all the work that went into creating this film it’s hard to imagine the feeling the cast and crew had when they finally saw it all put together and ready for the public. “It was wild,’ he says. “We only saw it a few weeks ago and it’s really strange seeing it come to fruition because we started so long ago. It was ‘05 when we started prepping this film,’ he explains, ‘and we shot for 6 months. Then there was a year and a half of post and some where along the line it becomes this other thing; like this nebulous cloud of experiences that you had that never really solidified until a few months ago. Seeing the mammoths and the tiger was amazing. Down to the smallest details like the water droplets coming off the tigers fur, ya know? It was unbelievable. It was really fantastic, I was so excited.”

Each new country that they filmed in was so incredible that Strait is hard pressed to declare an absolute favorite, but New Zealand is the only one that he has already ventured back to!

“They were all amazing,’ he credits, “Being up in the mountains in New Zealand was absolutely beautiful. We would joke with Roland because you would look at some of the shots they were getting and its like, no one is gonna believe that this is real. They’re gonna think it’s computer generated. It was just unbelievable. And you know a lot of the locations that we were shooting in, I can’t imagine were all that different in 10,000 BC. There were no roads to the places we were, there was no civilization for hundreds of miles. It was amazing.”

Now in the film, Strait’s character D’Leh literally goes to the ends of the Earth for the woman that he loves; would Steven do the same?

“I hope so,’ he says, “For example, I had just met my wife before I started making this movie. We had been living together for two months and I had to go. It was like, ‘bye honey see ya in 7 months,’ he jests. “She and I were taking 26 hour flights each way to see each other you know? You do what you can and what you have to. For me as a person that’s what’s good about everything human. I think it’s what drives everything good. People have asked me before, ‘Do you really believe the love story in this film could possibly happen?’ Yes, I do. I’m certainly a believer in it cause I’ve experienced it myself so I know it to be true. It was incredibly helpful for me because it allowed me to really believe what we were doing.”

So by now you’re probably wondering what the secret is that this guy is so carefully guarding? We all ...

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