VIDEO EXCLUSIVE: Luke Evans, Michiel Huisman & Jessica Ann Collins On Shooting In The Jungle For ‘Echo 3’

Echo 3, a new series from Zero Dark Thirty‘s Mark Boal, follows the story of the disappearance of Amber Chesborough and her brother and husband’s quest to find her while navigating a secret war.

Jessica Ann Collins, who plays Amber, Michiel Huisman, who plays Prince, and Luke Evans, who plays Bambi, recently sat for a conversation with uInterview founder Erik Meers about the project.

The actors described their research process for the series.

“For myself, I was just focused on sort of making sure I was primed for the moment of performance,” Collins said.

“I think by having [director] Mark [Boal] around though, Mark wouldn’t allow us to do anything without us having a real picture drawn from his experience and his knowledge, so we didn’t really need to know anything until the day we were actually there and preparing for the production,” Evans revealed. “Mark was there and we had ex-Navy Seals and Delta Force and we had knowledge coming from the horse’s mouth. There’s no better information than from someone who specialized in that world. Mark gave us everything we needed.”

“Our story is fictional, you know,” Huisman added. It’s based on events that have happened and can very much happen again, but this is a fictional story.”

The actors also revealed the moment from working on the production that they will remember most.

“We spent a lot of this production apart,” Collins said. “We’re together at the beginning and then I go on this journey and they go on their journey. At the end, we went to this incredible location on the Rosario Islands. We were reunited but we were able to ride boats out to this extraordinary island and sit around together. We swam in our break and just acted like giddy children!”

“The final days of the shoot kind of felt like vacation!” Huisman added.

Echo 3 premieres on Apple TV + on Wednesday.