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BEAR (muffled, shouting): This season on
Running Wild, we're taking it up a level.

(dramatic music)

(laughs)

(yelling)

Look at the fear in these eyes.

BEAR: I'm teaching my celebrity
guests essential survival skills.

This is really some Lord Of The Rings
**** right now we're doing.

(laughs)

-Hit it!
-(yells)

BEAR:
That they'll have to master.

If you can get within
bow striking distance of me,

without being spotted, I'll
let you off going skydiving.

(dramatic sting)

Then they need to prove...
(groans)

All the way, all the way, all the way.
(Simu yelps)

...that they
can live up to the challenge.

-BEAR: That is your life.
-NATALIE: Definitely. What if I...?

-Take that hand off...
-Yeah?

-It's gone. (whistles)
-Great.

-BEAR: It's not gonna be easy.
-(yelling) Wait a minute!

-(yelling) Ready, set.
-(emphatically) No!

(screaming) Whoa!

Oh!

(yelps) Ooh, you
gotta get me outta this pond!

BEAR:
And failure is not an option.

Ashton, push as far
forward as you can.

ASHTON (screaming):
Bear!

BEAR:
This is Running Wild, The Challenge.

(theme music playing)

(birds screeching)

PILOT (over com):
Okay, we're one minute away.

(helicopter blades, continuous)

(muffled) I'm flying over the Escalante
desert, in southern Utah,

on my way to pick
up actor Natalie Portman.

Below me is over
3000 square miles of desert,

towering cliffs, and deep slot
canyons. Natalie, be ready.

Welcome to Running Wild, The Challenge.

NATALIE:
Everybody have their seatbelts on?

Yeah, so, I'm a very cautious driver.

Definitely kind of a grandma when it comes
to driving. I don't like to take risks.

Gotta keep everyone safe. Usually, I
have some kids in the car, you know?

(thud)
Whoa! (laughs)

I am who knows where in Utah.
Somewhere in Utah, somewhere beautiful.

I feel like we've been
shut inside for so long

and I'm just ready to be in
nature and get my wild back.

So, I am gonna spend two days in
the wilderness with Bear Grylls.

I think I'm ready, I hope I'm ready.

All right. There's like,
no more road, so...

I assume this is where I stop?

All right.

BEAR: This is Natalie Portman.
Star Wars, Black Swan,

Oscar winner, a megastar acting
powerhouse with a massive career.

And she's also the new
Mighty Thor, enough said.

PILOT (over com): Ok here we go. Bear's
going to get on the skid. Five seconds.

BEAR:
And this is me, Bear Grylls.

Adventurer, survivalist, been known to
eat a few gross things in my day.

I've been a fan of Natalie's for years.

And I can't wait to
bring her into the wild.

-Oh, whoa. Hi.
-PILOT (over com): Keep going.

NATALIE (laughs):
Gonna get crazy. (laughs)

PILOT (over com):
Good, sounds good.

PILOT:
Keep going forward.

You're about half a meter away.

NATALIE (muffled):
He's landing on the car?

PILOT:
Bear's about to jump.

(laughs)
PILOT: He just jumped. He's off.

NATALIE:
Nice entrance, man. That was wild.

BEAR: Perfect.

You almost landed
on the car, it's like... (laughs)

Here, come on, climb up here. Let's have
a look and see where we're going.

Get a proper lay of
the land from up here.

-Okay. So, we are heading that way.
-NATALIE: Okay.

BEAR: And all of this is in
canyon land, which is wild country.

I'm so excited.

BEAR: Our extraction point is 12 miles due
east atop a massive sandstone mountain.

This desert is blazing hot
and the terrain is brutal.

Along the journey,

I'll be teaching Natalie several
survival skills she'll need,

to descend into a narrow slot canyon,
and cross a deep ravine.

At camp, I'll teach Natalie
another survival strategy.

And on day two, she'll need to
master all of these skills

to lead us up a massive ascent
and signal for our extraction.

Ready?

-Yeah!
-Come on.

Let's have a little look in the car,

see if there's anything we can
grab out of this before we go.

Okay. So, oh, look at this!

NATALIE: All right. (laughs)
What's that for?

Come on. There you go. Thor, that's
got you written all over it.

This is a lot heavier than the
actual hammer is. (laughs)

-BEAR: Is that right?
-Yeah.

BEAR:
We'll take these. Pitons.

We'll bang those into the rocks,
and we'll climb with those.

-NATALIE: Okay.
-BEAR: Let's stick that in your backpack.

NATALIE: In the back of the Jeep,
we found a hammer. (laughs)

Oh, and these things, I think
he said they're called pitons?

I feel like that's for
footsteps in the cliffs, I'm...

I have no practical skills so,
this is gonna be interesting.

Okay. Into canyon land.

-Nice.
-That way.

I'll follow you (laughs).

BEAR:
It's gonna be a hard work day for sure.

And also, I'm definitely going
to show Natalie a few skills

along the way that she
eventually is gonna have to use,

but she got a big smile on her face.

She looks, as we say in the UK,
as strong as a butcher's dog.

(both laughing)
NATALIE: Strong as a butcher's dog?

BEAR:
Poor, poor, Natalie, it's sort of...

What does it mean?

BEAR: Well they always
have these dogs that are, like,

so basically fed bones all day and
they're just like solid muscle. (laughs)

NATALIE: Not only am I learning survival
skills, I'm also learning British slang.

Bear's vibe is very friendly
apart from calling me a dog

within the first five minutes
of meeting me but, like,

I think it can only get
better from here, right? (laughs)

Looks so beautiful.

BEAR: So, what drew you to
come on this adventure with me?

NATALIE:
Spend a little too much suburban mom life

-and you're, like, ready to get a little.
-BEAR: Yeah.

Back to (laughs), back to nature.

Way into the deep end, but good for you.

Yeah. So much wonder to
be found in nature and...

Yeah.

NATALIE: I feel like it gives me a
rush in a way that nothing else does.

Yeah, good for you. But also,
you're an adventurous spirit.

You've done a lot of
traveling on your own.

Yes. Yes, I do.

Where did you go? Morocco and
Guatemala and all that stuff?

Yes. Like, all my 20's,

I basically was traveling by myself,
going out into the desert and...

To go to those countries on your own
in your 20's is definitely quite ballsy.

NATALIE:
Yeah.

I feel like sometimes I don't really
know the danger until later.

I'm like, "Maybe that was
not a good idea," (laughs) but.

BEAR:
Well, that's it.

NATALIE: When I was in it,
I was just like, "this is awesome."

BEAR: Fearless heart. Come on.
(both laugh)

(epic music)

Let's go left here, see if it'll take us
back up the canyon.

But also, you're a vegan.

-NATALIE: Yes.
-BEAR: Oh actually, look.

Here you go, this is a perfect tree
for you then. Juniper.

-NATALIE: Okay.
-BEAR: This is what you make gin.

NATALIE:
Yeah.

BEAR: You know, the Native
Americans make tea out of this.

Yeah, let's collect some of the,

we can make tea with these,
so you can just boil them up.

NATALIE:
Rad, okay.

BEAR:
Also, do you know this stuff? Ephedra?

NATALIE: No.

BEAR: This is proper good Native
American stuff. This was a stimulant.

-So, they'd boil this up.
-Oh, wow.

Drink it, and it'd be
a real pick-me-up, you know.

-Wow.
-A big pick-me-up.

-All right.
-BEAR: You know.

So, we'll take some of that
and then go in the side pack.

-NATALIE: All right. (laughs)
-BEAR: So, we got gin.

NATALIE: Gin.
-We got psychotic drugs.

-What could possibly go wrong?
-Who needs food?

(laughter)

BEAR:
That bit won't make the show.

(laughter)

Okay Natalie, just steady
on this bit, a little steeper.

NATALIE:
Okay.

BEAR: Okay, it looks like
a bit of an edge ahead here.

NATALIE:
Oh, boy.

BEAR:
Just watch yourself on that right there.

NATALIE:
It's a long way down.

And we've gotta drop into this one.

Aw, man.

BEAR: Let's throw a rock
down here, give it a throw,

just let it roll off
and see how long it takes.

(rumbling)

Hit the bottom.

-NATALIE: Whoa.
-Okay.

There's gonna be a rope for this.
And we need somewhere to tie it off to.

BEAR: This is the perfect spot for our
first mountaineering skill.

-Piton placement.
-Maybe we take your pitons.

And you can use sound to locate a
secure point for your anchor.

By tapping the rock, you can tell which
part is hollow and most likely to break,

and you can tell which part
is solid and most secure.

That's where you wanna place
your piton. The thing is,

you often can't be 100% sure that you've
got the perfect piton placement

until you're hanging with
all your weight off the edge.

I hope Natalie's watching closely 'cause
this skill is gonna be vital tomorrow.

-Okay, hammer. So...
-All right.

I mean, this stuff is horrible
really 'cause it's all sandstone.

So, if you hit there...

(deep thudding)

That sounds like, pretty solid.

-Okay.
-Hit here...

(higher-pitched thudding)

It has that sort of
hollow sound to it, you know?

So, this is good. You got a crack there,
let's do one here.

Okay. Give that a bang.
You're the Mighty Thor.

There you go, there you go.
Do another one here.

That's good. I think maybe
I should go first on this,

and then I can tell you what's down
there and we're all good to go.

NATALIE: We just put the pitons, I think
that's what they're called, into the rock.

Didn't look like super sturdy,
so we'll see how that holds.

Hand now never comes off that.

-Mm-hmm.
-BEAR: Okay?

You lean back, put your weight on it.

And you let that slide
through your hand gently.

-Yeah.
-Oh.

BEAR:
But, hand now never comes off that.

-That is your life.
-NATALIE: Definitely.

BEAR: Even if you slip and whack your
face, you never take that hand off.

-What if I...
-If you take that hand off...

-Yeah?
-It's gone. (whistles)

-Great.

I feel confident with Bear
that he'll teach me correctly.

But he definitely
does it very quickly. (laughs)

So, once I've gone
now here, Natalie, I'm gone.

-You're on your own, okay?
-Okay.

-Remember, what are the two key things?
-Don't let go of the, this.

-Yeah.
-And stay back.

There you go. Yeah.

Nice wide stance.

So, from here, I can
start to see the edge.

Natalie, it's a long way down.

Okay, here we go.

(rope belaying)

NATALIE: I am a little concerned about
the pitons holding because...

BEAR (distantly): Yeah, look it's going
all the way down further...

NATALIE: Because (laughs) we put
them in, is he talking to me?

BEAR (loudly):
Yeah, it gets pretty narrow.

But it's good.

Is it time for me to go?

BEAR (loudly): Okay, you're good,
Natalie. When you're ready.

Okay.

(tense music)

(yelps)

-BEAR: How you doing?
-Okay.

Oh, boy.

Oh. Oh, geez.

-BEAR: Okay?
-NATALIE: Yeah. (yelps)

(dramatic sting)
(grunts)

(tense music)

BEAR:
Okay?

NATALIE: Is it okay if
my feet come off the wall?

BEAR:
Yeah, that's fine.

You're now just free hanging and
just lower yourself as before.

Okay.

Wow.

BEAR: Well done. Looking
good. How you doing?

NATALIE: I'm just taking a moment
to take it in. This is amazing.

Wow. Beautiful.
(Bear laughs)

BEAR:
That's it. Looking great. Look at you.

Good job you. Smashed it.

-Wow.
-BEAR: Look, if you look back up.

NATALIE:
Whoa. That's insane.

Yeah, I mean,

it's just the most extravagantly beautiful
landscape you could ever imagine.

I feel so lucky to get to
like a place like this

that you would never, ever get to see.

BEAR:
Okay, we're gonna keep moving.

NATALIE (whispers):
That's so cool.

(dramatic music)

BEAR: Okay, so, it gets a
little tricky here, Natalie.

There you go.

Oh, yeah. We've got water.

NATALIE:
You gonna drink it? (laughs)

BEAR:
Well, we should definitely collect it.

-NATALIE: Yeah?
-BEAR: Yeah.

It's dirty, it's stagnant, so it's gonna
be full of all sorts of bad stuff.

We'll filter it, we'll boil it later,
and then we'll drink it.

NATALIE:
Great.

BEAR: This water is really
full of loads of kind of,

you know, dead flies
and dirt and everything.

NATALIE:
Oh, I got some sludge.

BEAR:
That's all right. Just stick it right in.

So, we can filter it, and boil it,

and then that's gonna
replenish our water source.

Okay. So, we're gonna filter
this. We could use a sock.

But then again, you
kind of need your socks.

Underpants?

I'd rather I sacrifice...

We're gonna filter sludge water
through underpants?

BEAR: Yeah.

NATALIE: The water is clean after it goes
through your underpants?

BEAR: Well, what part of the
underpants to filter it through?

Oh, boy. Oh, boy.

BEAR:
When you're in the wild,

almost every piece of
clothing serves a purpose.

Do you need some privacy?

-BEAR: Yeah.
-(laughs) I will avert my gaze.

BEAR:
Maybe with one exception, your underwear.

That's where the term, "Going
commando," originally comes from.

I mean, it's not gonna be perfectly clean.

That's an understatement. (laughs)

BEAR: Commandos often forego
underpants in hot environments.

Since my underwear is a luxury,

it's a perfect candidate
to use for water filtration.

(ripping) All right. Okay. Here we go.
Here she comes. I got, I reckon, enough.

(laughs)

Okay, so, you pour into there.

-This is gross.
-Well, it's less gross than that.

But that's not like,
a high threshold to start from.

BEAR (laughs):
Yeah. It's all degrees, isn't it?

Okay.

Look at that, perfect.

-Is it? (laughs)
-BEAR: Yeah, yeah. That'll be fine.

Okay, so, all we gotta
do then is boil that up,

underpants-filtered water.

-Kill any remaining bacteria.
-I think you could market that, bud.

(laughter)

(dramatic music)

-NATALIE: Where are we?
-BEAR: I don't know really where we are,

but we eventually, we
need to follow round.

And this is opening up now, which is good.

NATALIE: Yup.
(Bear laughs)

-Okay. So look, you see that ridgeline.
-NATALIE: Whoa.

BEAR:
That's where we're eventually heading.

-NATALIE: Cool.
-BEAR: First.

We'll take a little stop. Here we go. Come
and have a seat. Okay, Mighty Thor.

(Natalie laughs)

BEAR: Is it amazing to be part of
that Marvel, kind of, family?

Are you excited about that?

-Oh, yeah. I pinch myself every day.
-Yeah.

NATALIE: I was like,
"This is really, really cool."

BEAR: Aren't you going to be taking over
as Thor or was that, how, how what'd...

-I'm the Mighty Thor.
-BEAR: You're the Mighty Thor.

-So, there's Thor and Mighty Thor.
-BEAR: But that is epic.

-BEAR: But that is amazing.
-NATALIE: Yeah.

BEAR: And is it fun for you
to see a woman in that role?

NATALIE: Yeah. I mean, I loved
that they had it as like, "a Thor. "

BEAR:
Mm-hmm.

You know, the Thor is like a concept
not necessarily a singular person.

Mm-hmm. Yeah.

NATALIE: And I'm excited to like,
make a movie that my son likes. (laughs)

Yeah, so, is he really into
it? Was he excited?

NATALIE: Oh, my God.

He's like, "Can you just keep doing
Marvel movies?" All I want you to do is...

So, who's his hero?

He loves Doctor Strange
a lot and of course...

-BEAR: Yeah.
-And Thor, of course.

Yeah. You're strong and fit in this.
Are you in training at the moment?

Yeah. It's super, super physical for Thor.

So how is it different to like,
Black Swan training?

Well, ballet's so like,
formal and, you know, rigid.

And also, is an art, so there's, you know,
the training, they talk to you about like,

certain moves, like expressing your
sadness with your fingertips, you know.

Like, it, there's a...

Which is the opposite of
Thor like, "Roar, come on."

-Yeah. "Rawr."
-Yeah.

NATALIE: There's also a lot more like,
flexibility in the Thor stuff.

You can run and you can, you know,

swim and you can do
weight training, and you can like...

-BEAR: Yeah.
-Mix it all up.

-It's not quite so like, specific.
-Well, come on. it's pretty cool.

So, it's a privilege to
adventure with the Mighty Thor.

-NATALIE: Ah, thank you.
-BEAR: Yeah.

NATALIE:
Privilege to adventure with you, man.

BEAR:
Okay, Natalie, let's do it, saddle up.

-And we're gonna follow this round here.
-NATALIE: All right.

(dramatic music)

BEAR: Okay, hold on, this is
getting a little steeper here.

Let's just stick a short rope on this.

-NATALIE: Awesome.
-BEAR: Okay. Cross, yeah.

NATALIE:
All right.

BEAR: So, you got a bit of a drop on the
right. So, we're just mindful of that.

-NATALIE: Oh, boy.
-BEAR: Yeah. And that's a 50-foot drop.

That's why we're careful along here.

-NATALIE: This is where we're going?
-BEAR: Yeah.

So, these lines, I put this in here.

And they go all the
way across to the other side.

And that is where we're going.

NATALIE:
Oh, boy.

BEAR: We're gonna do something
that's called a rope transfer.

NATALIE:
Okay.

BEAR: It's a great
mountain rescue survival skill.

NATALIE:
Awesome.

Which is basically a mix of
you kind of rappel down the first line.

-NATALIE: Okay.
-And then you pull the other line.

And then you transfer your
kind of weight into that

and then you pull
yourself up that one.

NATALIE:
Okay.

BEAR: A rope transfer is an
advanced rope technique that

I've never attempted with a guest before.

In this case, we're first
gonna 70 feet down the rope,

and then whilst hanging in mid-air,
we're gonna complete a rope transfer.

This involves disconnecting
from one set of ropes and

and reconnecting to a secondary set.

This switches us from a vertical descent
to a horizontal pull across the ravine.

I hope Natalie's been paying attention,

because this technique is gonna
come in handy tomorrow.

I'll talk you through it, we'll be fine,
okay? Let's get this set up here.

I'm not really sure
what's going on. (laughs)

But we're, like, on the edge
of a cliff gorge situation,

and we're gonna use ropes
to get to the other side.

BEAR: So, we're gonna go down nice wide
stance, side by side, do it together.

NATALIE:
Okay.

BEAR: But we don't wanna
drop too far because then

we're gonna pull the
other rope in and transfer.

(laughter)
Okay? How complicated could it be?

-It's one of those things.
-NATALIE: All right.

BEAR: It's much easier just
to kind of do it, isn't it?

-NATALIE: Learn by doing.
-BEAR: Yeah. Come on. Okay.

-NATALIE: Going backwards off a cliff.
-BEAR: Quick final check, check,

-check, check, check, happy, okay.
-Okay.

(tense music)

So, then we're
doing this while holding it.

NATALIE:
Wait.

BEAR:
With this hand, letting it run through.

Put your weight on it,
and then pull that handle.

-NATALIE: Wait. Why am I not, oh. (laughs)
-Yeah. Okay?

-NATALIE (laughs): Okay.
-BEAR: Okay. Here we go.

Gets a bit more vertical here.

NATALIE (sighs):
Oh, boy.

BEAR: Okay. So, we're gonna
keep going down. Here we go.

Okay, about there. Perfect, perfect.

This is where we're
gonna do the rope transfer.

Okay. So now, you grab this
rope and you grab your rope.

-So, this one goes to the other side.
-NATALIE: Oh.

BEAR:
Yeah, so pull, pull, pull, pull.

Okay, so, once you got it pulled,
now clip on to the second system there.

Well done, that's it.

And we're pulling and pushing. (grunts)
So, we're pulling as far as you can.

-NATALIE: All right.
-BEAR: There you go. That's it, good job.

-NATALIE: Yeah.
-BEAR: Good job.

-NATALIE: Oh, boy.
-BEAR: Okay, are we ready?

-NATALIE: Yeah.
-BEAR: One, two, three.

Okay. One more. One more.
(Natalie groans)

And one, two, three, ready?
Here push. Slide, slide it.

NATALIE:
Oh, boy. Wait.

-BEAR: Yeah?
-NATALIE: Oh, my God.

BEAR: One, two, three. Hold on.
Slide. Slide. One, two, three, slide.

-NATALIE: Oh, oh, boy.
-BEAR: Slide, slide.

(Natalie gasps)

(dramatic music)

BEAR: One, two, three.
Slide, slide it. Slide, slide.

NATALIE:
Oh, boy.

BEAR:
One, two, three, slide, slide. Slide.

NATALIE (gasps):
Oh, ****.

BEAR:
There you go. Well done, you.

-NATALIE: Oh, boy. (laughs)
-BEAR: Okay.

So now, we come back to this one.

And then we'll gently release it
just a little bit, okay?

Down. Keep going down. Okay?

Come a little bit lower.
Down to about here.

That's it. And then, we get our
feet on here. There you go.

-Okay. So then from here.
-NATALIE: Yeah.

We're gonna walk our way up here.

We're gonna slide it.

Good job. Well done.
Good job, Natalie.

-NATALIE: Thanks for helping me. (laughs)
-BEAR: No, no you did it.

NATALIE: We just rappelled and
pulled our way up to the other side.

That was definitely a test. Like, I didn't
think that it would be possible.

-BEAR: There you go.
-All right.

BEAR:
And then we're going up here.

(bellowing)

NATALIE: The color of this
Earth is, like, so beautiful.

So, really now, we're looking
for somewhere to make camp.

So for camp, we wanna be somewhere
up, somewhere elevated a little bit.

BEAR:
Priority then is to really make fire,

and also try and find
something more to eat, you know.

Got a few juniper berries and
a bit of ephedra, but really,

we need something more
than that, so on the lookout.

You know, even around here,
nice soft deep sand to sleep on.

Firewood, look, we've got
loads of that dead stuff there.

NATALIE:
Yes.

And, uh, hello, we've
got a prickly pears over here.

Look.

NATALIE:
You use that for the fire?

Prickly pear is gonna be the vegan dinner.

This one is great.
(Natalie laughs)

Yeah. And what we'll do, we'll
put that straight on the fire

'cause it, these spikes are brutal.

But also, there's tiny little hairs as
well that really mess with you.

-Nice.
-So, we'll put it on the fire,

burn those off, slice
it into like slithers.

-So cool.
-BEAR: And then we've got, look.

They eat all the deadwood, little grubs.

-NATALIE: Maggots?
-BEAR: Look.

And what are you gonna do with that?

Right. Well, these are, these
could go with the prickly pear.

(retches)

(Bear hums)
NATALIE (laughs): Okay.

Oh!
(Bear laughs)

You're gonna make me eat maggots
and, like, undie water?

Is a maggot vegan?

-No.
-BEAR: Really?

Absolutely not.

BEAR:
You often find grubs in deadwood.

But actually they're
great protein, great energy.

I'm now thinking, "Hold on, we can use
a sliver of the prickly pear cook it up,

fill it full of maggots,
you've got like nature's taco."

-I'll eat the cactus.
-BEAR: Okay, well, let's cook that up.

Yeah.

Try and make it look palatable. We
can even cook these, you know?

Then they're fine to,
I'm gonna get a load of 'em.

(Natalie snorts, laughs)

I love that cooked makes
it more palatable.

BEAR:
Yeah. Okay. Go on.

Yikes.

BEAR: Okay, we've got lots of
dry kindling, tinder as well.

BEAR: So far, I've taught Natalie two
key survival skills on our journey

and I'm about to teach her a third and
final skill; how to light a signal fire.

Tomorrow, when we get to the top of this
mountain we're heading to,

we're gonna light a signal fire. Or
actually you're gonna light a signal fire.

But, it's gotta be under two minutes,
so we don't miss our pick up.

-Okay.
-Okay.

So look, this is how
you're gonna light it.

Strike your spot like that.

(Natalie hums)

-BEAR: There we go.
-NATALIE: Oh, there you go.

BEAR:
We got a fire, so that's...

Okay.

BEAR: The thing is
about emergency signal fires,

if you're lost in
the desert, you know,

you might only get one chance
of a plane flying over you,

and that plane might only
take two minutes to fly over.

Try keeping that
hand still and pull that one.

BEAR: So, if you haven't used one
of these strikers before,

it's harder than it looks.

There you go, so a bit
more Mighty Thor strength.

BEAR: It takes a lot of strength
to get enough pressure and speed

to generate enough
sparks to start the fire.

-Come on Mighty Thor strength.
-Come on, man.

BEAR:
There you go, there you go.

-NATALIE: Ah-ha.
-BEAR: There you go. Great job.

-We've got fire.
-That's so cool.

BEAR:
Yeah. Well done, Natalie.

That was a good lighting of a fire.
But, signal fire that we need smoke,

and there's not a lot of smoke from this,
but if we put some green on it.

So, all of this is green, put this...

-NATALIE: Yeah.
-BEAR: This is now gonna create smoke.

Okay, so tomorrow, our signal fire. You
got to be ready. You got to be prepared.

-All right.
-Our extraction depends on it.

NATALIE: So apparently, we're
gonna hear a rescue helicopter

and I'm gonna have to make
a fire in like, two minutes,

that has smoke
that will attract the attention

and let them know how to rescue us.

-I'll be practicing all night.
-BEAR: You're gonna nail it.

(dramatic music)

BEAR:
Okay. That's good.

Okay. So, look, we're gonna stick
the old prickly pear on that.

BEAR: Natalie Portman and I
are in the Escalante Desert,

sitting down to a pleasant dinner of
roasted prickly pear and maggots

complemented by hot water
filtered through my underpants.

Burn these hairs off.
Maggots are good, I think.

-You need some more?
-I think we'll keep them wriggling.

I don't mind.
(Natalie laughs)

Let's also get this
underpant water boiling.

(laughs)

Okay, that's good.

So, what was your kind of upbringing like?

NATALIE:
Pretty like, suburban.

Where in? In...

-In New York.
-In New York.

Like suburbs of New York.
Not very outdoorsy at all...

-Yeah.
-NATALIE (laughs): My upbringing.

But, I went to like, dance school
and a lot of the kids like,

auditioned for stuff and did kind of like,
Broadway or commercials or something.

How were your parents with it? Were
they trying to discourage or encourage?

They were very focused on school.

So, like, they were like, you can do
it as long as school is okay.

So, I would just be like, school, school,
school, and like,

get my schoolwork done right away so
that I could go to the audition or...

-And did you go to a lot of auditions?
-I did at the beginning.

But my first movie, I did when I was 11.

-BEAR: Oh, wow. Yeah.
-NATALIE: Which was The Professional.

BEAR: Wow, you were 11?
I forget you were that young.

NATALIE:
Yeah. I know.

It's pretty crazy.
Now, that my kid is ten.

-BEAR: Yeah.
-And like turning 11,

I'm like, whoa, that's really young.

And did that change
your life or not really?

Did you go and film it
and then go back or...

NATALIE: Oh, yeah, it totally
changed my life. I mean...

-BEAR: How was that like?
-I went back to school after and...

BEAR:
Yeah? How was that?

NATALIE: It was, it
was hard coming back.

Like I actually switched
schools after that year because

I got bullied quite a
bit when I came back.

It's a tough age. And also, it's a
really vulnerable age, isn't it?

And then you suddenly do something
out of the ordinary like that and...

NATALIE:
Yeah.

I suppose people just
get jealous really, don't they?

NATALIE: I don't know, who knows,
maybe I was being a jerk.

Like, I feel like, you never know.

Yeah, but being bullied is really not fun.

Yeah, it sucks.

But it's also the way, the best way to
learn how not to do it to other people,

is like to understand what it feels like.

-Yeah.
-You know?

-Wait, so how old were you with Star Wars?
-I was 16 when I made the first one.

BEAR: Yeah, but that's amazing to,
16 to walk into that...

-NATALIE: Yeah.
-BEAR: Huge kind of franchise.

NATALIE:
It was really like, daunting.

Entering something that has like,
so much like, cultural relevance and...

-Yeah.
-NATALIE: Fans.

I think the surprising
thing was that the movies,

when they came out were like, killed,
like everyone hated them.

BEAR:
Oh, really?

And they were like,
you ruined the Star Wars series

and all this and it
was kind of an awful feeling.

BEAR:
Yeah.

NATALIE: And then, now,
20 years later, it's like,

now people are like, "those are the good
ones." You know, "we love those."

Well, you created something special, yeah.

Yeah.

So, your two children, what
values do you try and instill in them?

Just to like, follow
what they're passionate about.

And also, of course like, to be kind,

but, I'm lucky I don't really
have to say that to them, they are kind.

-BEAR: Yeah.
-They just like, came out that way.

Yeah, but you're obviously a lovely mom.

-You can see it's just...
-Thank you.

That's just number one for you.

They are people that I
love to spend time with.

BEAR: Strong women like Mighty
Thor, are great role models.

I hope so. (laughs)

BEAR: I've had a really
lovely chat around the fire.

I think, you know, her
journey and her story's amazing.

Positivity runs
through everything she does.

And she's, you know, kind of
humbly attacks these things

and there's a power to that, there's
a power to that out in the wild,

you know, 'cause life in
the wild could beat you down.

It's all fun and games for a few hours,
but once you get into these things, it,

you know, having a positive
spirit is king or queen.

Should we try the prickly pear?

-Sure.
-BEAR: Okay, so, skewer this.

There you go, of course that's hot, but
juggle it in your hands. Pull, pull, pull.

Well, that shrunk down.
The hairs are off it.

Get some of those maggots.

Okay, this is called nature's taco.
This could be my one.

Well, it's, probably the worst meal you've
ever been presented with in your life.

I should've brought my hot sauce.

BEAR: Just have this prickly pear
cooking, but here's to you, well done.

-Cheers.
-BEAR: Come on, smashed it.

(crunching)

It's okay?

Taste like fire.
(Bear hums)

And mine's got a little bit of...

-NATALIE: Peanut butter.
-Peanut butter in it.

Yeah.

So, also this, we got some of
the juniper and ephedra in it.

Oh, no way.

Do you wanna take the first sip?
(Natalie hums in assent)

Too much and you'll go psychotic.

Really? Sounds fun.
(Bear laughs)

-Yeah, there you go, juniper tea.
-I can't taste anything,

but maybe it's 'cause
everything tastes like fire.

Yeah.
(both laugh)

Well I did learn early on in
this world of wilderness living,

if you burn stuff enough,
it basically will taste okay.

NATALIE: It's been a day. I
drank undie water. (laughs)

Watched Bear eat worms,
which was super gnarly.

Ate a cactus, which was very delicious.
I mean, maybe not very delicious.

That's an overstatement. Edible.

And now we're, like, in this beautiful
place and getting ready to go to sleep.

-This is not as easy, oh, there we go.
-BEAR: What, are you practicing the flint?

NATALIE: Maybe. (laughs)
I'll try not to set the camp on fire.

Oh.

-BEAR: You got it. You got it.
-NATALIE: Whoa. (laughs)

(epic music)

BEAR:
Okay. Get warm.

-We'll get moving.
-All right.

BEAR: So, Natalie, I'm
actually gonna go ahead

just because I've got some ropes to set
up as well. It takes a little bit of time.

-NATALIE (chuckles): Okay.
-BEAR: You can finish up here.

Get warm. Get packed. Get ready. I'm
gonna leave you a radio, channel one.

(beeps)

All right.

BEAR: You're heading just
straight down this canyon.

And once you turn
the corner, you'll see it.

It's like a massive big rock
feature. You can't miss it.

All right.

Should we do a quick radio check?

Hi.

-Seems to be working.
-Awesome.

BEAR: This is gonna be physical for her.
It's gonna be a big climb.

I'm actually gonna go on alone
for this first bit just 'cause

I'm gonna need to set
up some ropes for that.

BEAR: Yesterday, I taught Natalie
three key survival skills.

-Okay, give that a bang.
-How to place a piton.

That's good. Okay, grab this rope.

-How to transfer rope systems.
-Well done. That's it.

Try keeping that hand
still and pull that one.

And how to light a signal
fire in under two minutes.

-NATALIE: Yes.
-BEAR: This is now gonna create smoke.

Today, Natalie is gonna have to master
all three of these skills

before we're extracted by helicopter.

NATALIE: So apparently, I'm gonna have to
start a fire in two minutes today.

I'm a little nervous about because
it took me quite a while yesterday.

But, I was practicing at night, which
hopefully will give me a leg up today.

BEAR (over radio):
Hey, Natalie, how you doing?

NATALIE:
Good, I think.

Oh, man. I think I found it.

BEAR (over radio):
Yeah, it's pretty clear, isn't it?

This one is on Natalie.

She's gonna have to
climb this massive rock face,

on her own, until she reaches me.

What do I do now?

BEAR (over radio):
Just start walking up it,

as it gets steeper
maybe zig-zag a little bit.

And I am about
three quarters of the way up.

-I'll meet you there.
-Okay.

So, I've gotten to the
place where he told me to come.

This looks like a vertical wall.
So, yeah, we'll see.

I mean, I'm sure if he's asked me to
do it, I can do it, right? Okay.

(grunting)

Oh, boy.

Oh, my God.

(tense music)

BEAR (over radio): Yeah, you're looking
good from up here, Natalie. Well done.

NATALIE: Oh, my God.
(yelps) I just looked down.

BEAR (over radio): Don't look down,
keep looking up. Trust your feet.

You've got good grip on this rock.

NATALIE:
All right.

(groaning)

BEAR (over radio):
Keep going.

(groaning)

NATALIE:
Oh, boy.

-BEAR: Well done.
-All right. Wow.

BEAR:
So, come on. Go.

So, there you go.
(Natalie hums)

Come on then. Let's have a final
sit down, get our breath back.

-NATALIE: Wow.
-BEAR: It's pretty cool, isn't it?

NATALIE:
So beautiful.

BEAR: Sometimes, it's good
to get a little bit of time,

and a little bit of perspective
and space, isn't it?

NATALIE:
Yeah, absolutely.

Have you got things, big burning ambitions
and goals, you still really wanna do?

(laughs)

I think it's all about trying to like,
lower my ambitions and expectations.

BEAR:
Really? Why? 'Cause...

-To be happier.
-BEAR: Yeah.

Because I think if you, I don't know,
if you're very busy and you do have...

(Bear hums)

Kids, and family, and work, and friends,
at a certain point it's like,

"Oh, my God, this, you know, you
need to let it go a little bit."

BEAR: Yeah. And that's why
I really, I look at your life,

and the thing that actually shines out for
me most is that you're a lovely mom.

-Oh, thank you.
-But, I mean, it's true, and it's also...

-Talk to my kids when they're... (laughs)
-Well, I know it's, like.

...Asking for the stuff
they want. (laughs)

Yeah, yeah, that's the
journey of parenthood.

But, you know, that's
the real stuff, isn't it?

Yup, absolutely.

-Okay, so, we've gotta get to the top.
-Okay.

And then get that fire going,
and get smoke, and get spotted.

-NATALIE: All right.
-You ready?

Ready.

BEAR: Let's get to the
top and get ready for this.

BEAR: Our extraction point is at the
top of this 1,000-foot desert peak.

At its most vertical,
it's a sheer 80 degrees.

I've gotta ask Natalie to put
her newfound skills to the test,

to get us up and off the top
of this towering mountain.

Okay, Natalie, this is
what I've set up this morning.

All right.

So this last bit, we're gonna
be on one line each.

NATALIE:
Okay.

BEAR: We're gonna use that same jumar that
we used on that rope transfer

-remember in the gorge?
-Uh-huh.

BEAR: We're gonna use that on these,
one each side by side.

NATALIE:
Okay.

BEAR: But the ropes I've got are
only about 60-foot each,

so we're definitely
gonna have to use two.

So we're gonna have to
transfer ropes in the middle,

kind of like, we did yesterday, but
this time, Natalie, it's all on you.

-NATALIE (laughs): All right.
-BEAR: Here, let's get these out.

And get yours out.

(dramatic sting)

NATALIE:
This is very high, very steep.

Looks like some, I don't know, upper body
strength, which I don't have a ton of.

BEAR:
Just get used to the process of pushing,

sliding it along, so up with your feet,

standing up, and then
just sliding it along.

So, the key is using your legs.

Your legs, it's your legs
that are taking the weight...

-NATALIE: Oh, boy.
-...Off the rope.

-Does that make sense?
-NATALIE: Yeah.

BEAR: So, as you stand up,
the weight comes off the rope,

and you can slide it up.

Good job, we're doing it,
and we're doing it.

-Whew! All right. (laughs)
-BEAR: Good job.

Well done, that's it. And slide,
there you go. Okay.

Good. It's hard, it's hard, you know,

it's getting steeper, so we just pace
ourselves. Take our time.

NATALIE:
All right.

(grunting)

Oh, boy.

BEAR: Good job. Okay. So, at this point,
we're gonna transfer onto this rope.

-NATALIE: Okay.
-BEAR: Okay.

-We're gonna bang a piton into that bit.
-All right.

BEAR: Okay. So, if you grab the
hammer out of my bag.

-NATALIE: All right.
-BEAR: And a piton.

Okay. Give that a bang.
(thudding)

Yeah, that sounds good. Nice and solid.

-Is that good or more?
-BEAR: Yeah, a little, little more.

Straight in. Okay. Well done. That's it.

And that's gonna be our
safety as we transfer our ropes.

NATALIE:
All right. Is that right?

-BEAR: Yeah.
-Okay.

BEAR:
And move me into that as well.

-NATALIE: Like that?
-BEAR: Well done, Natalie.

-That is a new safe one there.
-Yeah?

BEAR:
We're safe on this new rope.

So next bit, it gets a
bit more vertical here,

but just keep sliding it
and you got it, you got it.

-NATALIE (laughs): Okay.
-BEAR: Okay. Here we go.

NATALIE:
Okay.

(tense music)

NATALIE:
Oh, boy. (laughs)

-BEAR: There we go.
-NATALIE: All right.

BEAR:
Slide, slide, and then hang. Good job.

-NATALIE: Oh, boy.
-BEAR: There you go. All right.

NATALIE:
Oh, my God. Like, I'm just like, dead.

BEAR:
You got it, we got it.

-NATALIE (laughs): What if I can't do it?
-BEAR: You can, you can.

-Ready?
-NATALIE: Yeah. Oh, my God. Oh, ****.

(yelps)

(dramatic music)

-BEAR: There you go.
-NATALIE: What if I can't do it? (laughs)

BEAR:
You can, you can, you can.

Your foot's almost there,
that right foot, that's it.

-NATALIE: Okay.
-BEAR: Ready?

-NATALIE: Yeah.
-BEAR: Off the, off that.

There you go. There you go.
Beautiful.

-One more.
-NATALIE: Okay.

BEAR:
Well done, Natalie. Last little bit.

Great job. Great job.

-NATALIE: Oh, all right.
-BEAR: Great job. Smashed it.

NATALIE:
That was really real.

BEAR:
Good for Natalie.

I've done a lot of these in my life and
they never get any easier.

She doesn't know how we're getting
out of here, but all I will say...

(helicopter humming)

Is I can now hear it.

-Where is it?
-NATALIE: I hear it.

BEAR: So that means we have
about two minutes

before it passes over
the top of us. You ready?

-NATALIE: Yup.
-BEAR: Okay. Let's get the fire going.

(dramatic music)

PILOT (on com):
Any sign of the smoke signal?

PILOT 2 (on com):
Nothing so far.

(tense music)

-BEAR: Got it?
-NATALIE: Yup.

Here we go, here we go.

That's nice and dry.
Good job.

-You're on a minute, 15.
-NATALIE: Come on, man.

BEAR:
We've burned through about 15 seconds.

NATALIE:
Oh, boy.

PILOT 2:
Yeah, I still don't see any smoke.

PILOT:
Roger that.

BEAR:
That was so close.

-BEAR: So close!
-NATALIE: Come on.

PILOT 2:
Still nothing.

PILOT:
Let's take one last pass.

PILOT 2:
Roger that.

BEAR:
Ooh.

Done, two minutes
is up, but you've got fire.

Can you get some of
your green stuff on it?

There you go. It's gonna make
the smoke. Good job.

PILOT 2:
Hold on, I see smoke. Your 3 o'clock.

PILOT:
Roger that, heading in.

-BEAR: That's our way out of here.
-NATALIE (laughs): Okay.

(dramatic music)

PILOT 2:
Ok, hold there.

-(loudly) Will we climb up the ladder?
-(loudly) We're gonna hook on, just look.

PILOT:
Ok, starting down,

-All right.
-PILOT: They got it, they got it.

BEAR:
You ready?

PILOT 2:
Slowly, they're both on the line.

PILOT:
Ok, lifting.

NATALIE:
****!

What!

-Look down.
-Oh, my God!

-BEAR: Whoo!
-NATALIE: Oh, my God.

(laughs)

What are you doing to me?

NATALIE:
The past two days has been amazing.

I've learned so much about like,
making a fire, and rappelling,

and scaling a mountain,
hanging off a helicopter,

and getting to spend the time with Bear in
this beautiful, beautiful place.

It's been so cool. It's...
I feel super, super lucky right now.

Natalie, you've been amazing.
(Natalie screams)

BEAR:
Natalie loves pushing the boundaries.

She loves tackling the difficult stuff,

but she's also got a, kind of,
gentle and a humble spirit,

and above all, she's just a lovely mom.

Natalie's stepping
out of her comfort zone,

learning and performing real
technical skills on the fly,

and smashing this challenge.
It's all pretty inspiring.

It's no surprise they
call her the Mighty Thor.

Natalie Portman Running Wild, done!