[dramatic music]
♪♪♪♪♪
COLMAN: Wow! This is crazy.
I'm in a castle.
[laughs]
I don't think my friends
would call me an outdoorsman.
I think they would call me
a glamping kind of guy,
someone who likes, uh...
[laughs] ...a 5-star service.
Oh, wow, this is just too cool.
This is the part
where I'm geeked out.
[laughs] I'm really
geeked out right now.
But I think this
is a perfect place
to take a nice, deep breath
before a huge adventure.
It feels like I'm in a dream.
You feel like you're in--
you're in some incredible,
beautiful painting from, like,
the 17th century or something.
♪♪♪♪♪
All right, so, let's see,
what-- what is this?
What's going on here?
This is a...
It feels like something
that would be, like,
nautical or something.
Oh, it's an altimeter.
It measures distance
from the Earth.
That means I'm gonna be having
some distance from the Earth.
I'll be up in the sky.
[helicopter whirring]
My name is Colman Domingo,
and today I'm in Wales,
and I'm going to be
Running Wild with Bear Grylls.
God help me.
[laughs]
- Welcome to The Running Man.
- [crowd cheering]
BEAR: Colman Domingo is a
two-time Oscar-nominated actor,
a director and producer
whose career spans
every medium of storytelling.
Man, is it beautiful.
BEAR: From his roles
in critically-acclaimed films...
That's a Coca-Cola.
BEAR: ...to becoming the most
memorable character
in some of TV's biggest hits.
My mattress smells like
a cold sidewalk!
BEAR: It's no wonder
Time magazine recently named him
one of its 100 most influential
people in the world.
You think I'm making this up?
BEAR: Colman's career
continues to climb
to ever-greater heights.
There will be no other day
like tomorrow.
BEAR: Let's see how
he handles the view, though,
from 10,000 feet.
I am the gladiator Goliath!
BEAR: I hope he's ready.
I'm freely
volunteering to engage
in the following
activities: skydiving!
I don't know how I feel
about skydiving yet.
I think possibly
it's one of those things
I've always wanted to do.
Possibly. I don't know.
I don't know what I feel.
We're gonna go skydiving?
What did I agree to?
What did-- What?
[laughs]
It is wild when you're like,
you've-- you've seen the show,
and you're like, okay, wait,
now I'm in the show.
Now what-- what--
what's gonna happen?
[laughs]
Where's it gonna come from?
Is that Bear?
[screaming]
[laughing]
[helicopter whirring]
[laughs] He's comin' this way.
[dramatic music]
Hey, what's up?
Hey, man.
How are you, buddy?
- You okay?
- COLMAN: Yeah. I'm fine.
All right.
Oh, [bleep]!
Ah!
BEAR: Welcome to Running Wild!
COLMAN: This is insane.
Wow!
♪♪♪♪♪
Okay, parachute check.
Ripcord. Harness.
You've got Joe behind you.
You're good.
[laughs]
Have you ever jumped before?
No, no,
I've never jumped before.
- Wow.
- What can go wrong?
[laughs]
Man, let's not go there.
♪♪♪♪♪
- Halfway.
- [bleep]!
I'm sorry, it's just halfway?
[both laugh]
♪♪♪♪♪
BEAR: Look at that now.
Above the clouds.
Whoa! We're there.
♪♪♪♪♪
[helicopter whirring]
Okay, now, we're--
Okay, go for it.
- Ready...
- Yes, sir.
...set, go!
Whoa!
Wow.
[Colman cheering]
Whoo!
♪♪♪♪♪
[Colman screams]
[Colman laughing]
I'm goin' through
the clouds, man!
[pensive music]
There's no other feeling
like it in the world.
You're not even moving.
Your body's just dancing
with the air.
Okay, parachute is open.
Now to land this thing.
We're gonna be pretty close
to the cliffs.
Oh, man!
If this isn't Running Wild,
I don't know what is.
Whoo!
[dramatic music]
Down on the ground.
Now to get Colman down.
And look, the cliff edge
is just, like, 100 feet away.
He does not want to go further
than about this line.
♪♪♪♪♪
Oh! Yeah!
- Well done, brother.
- Oh, man, that was great!
- Oh, my gosh.
- That was just great.
- Whoo!
- That was just awesome.
- That exit was cool.
- That was cool.
We were, like, together.
It's just blanket cloud.
That was awesome, man.
It was beautiful. Beautiful.
I'm ready to do it again,
and again, and again.
Well, you were super cool
on that edge,
- 'cause that's scary.
- I don't know what it is.
- Respect.
- I go-- I go the opposite.
- I go very zen.
- Yeah.
It felt good just to, like,
be one with all of it,
you know what I mean?
You must be so used
to, like, having nerves,
and learning
how to manage nerves.
Maybe that-- I think
maybe that's it,
before a performance,
before I go out on stage.
If I'm calm, I can really be
aware of everything,
remember my lines,
well, remember what...
- Yeah.
- ...what these guys told me
to do, and how to trust,
and trust the feeling.
It's a great skill.
A lot of people don't have it.
- It's calm in the crisis.
- Yeah.
- And you've got it.
- Exactly.
It means you're gonna make
a great survivor.
Dude, thanks, man.
I appreciate it.
Okay, we're gonna get
you out of this,
and we're gonna get moving.
Look how close the cliffs are,
just over there.
- Right on the edge.
- Wow.
BEAR: Colman had missed
a 150-foot sheer drop
into the rocky ocean
by less than 100 feet.
Have you ever been
to Wales before?
Never been to Wales before.
Won't be my last time.
I love it here.
It looks so idyllic.
- [laughs] Don't be fooled.
- Really?
- Don't be fooled. Well--
- Is there wild animals here?
In Wales,
there's danger everywhere,
and I'm not just
talking about the locals.
- [laughs]
- Yeah.
Give me 30 seconds,
and we'll look over,
and you'll see what I mean.
He's got a brilliantly sort
of warm, positive attitude,
uh, a natural survivor,
I suspect.
This journey's gonna be fun.
Here we go, right on the edge
of the cliffs, here.
It's beautiful.
But we've also got some
toil and sweat ahead.
Colman and I will be
working our way
along the Irish Sea coastline.
It is beautiful,
but it is rugged.
We've got crumbly
sandstone sea cliffs,
and deep, wave-battered
rocky tide pools.
Along the way, I've cached
a small inflatable Zodiac
to take us ten miles
through the cold waters
to a steep coastal region.
From here, we're gonna
have to climb and descend
a series of steep rock walls
to reach our extraction.
- You ready?
- Yeah.
- Come on.
- Let's do it.
[Colman laughs]
BEAR: Where were you
brought up, Colman?
COLMAN: Philadelphia.
Okay, yeah. What was that like?
Philadelphia,
you know, urban city,
people like Will Smith
come from there,
and, you know,
uh, really good music,
and people are very just, like,
working-class,
good people, I think.
Yeah. And what was
your upbringing like?
Mom, my stepfather,
and my two brothers and sister.
But I was, like, the--
the nerdy kid, the quiet kid.
But I watched a lot,
and then I started
to develop skills,
and to become a person,
you know.
- Yeah.
- This is a 55-year-old,
you know,
work-in-progress right here.
Bear's a very open person.
Easy, warm, relaxed.
And then, he's an expert
at all of this,
of all this survivalist stuff,
so I felt, like, cool.
I feel like a cool kid today.
We've been following
all the way along the coast
for the last mile or so.
If we keep going,
it gets to about
which we don't want.
COLMAN:
BEAR: So, we're gonna drop down
to the beach itself,
probably about 150 foot
of cliffs.
So, we're gonna use these
talons, these little claws
that are just like that long,
and they fold up nicely.
I always keep them
in the backpack.
You just stick 'em in, look.
Give it a stamp.
COLMAN: That doesn't even look
like it's hooked into anything.
- Wait a minute! Wait! Wait!
- Find some earth--
That's too soft!
Wait, wait, wait!
- BEAR: There we go, that's one.
- COLMAN: Doesn't it have to be,
like, in something harder?
Wait. Hold-- [laughs]
- BEAR: Leave that a moment.
- [laughs] Wait a minute.
And they're perfect for gripping
into earth that's not very deep.
Put weight on it, it will hold.
Where's, uh, Spider-Man
when you need him?
Because apparently
we're going down this cliff.
This is wild.
BEAR: I'll go first.
You stay up here,
keep an eye on those.
And, uh, and as long
as it's good...
- COLMAN: I got you.
- ...then you come second.
Then you can see
exactly what I'm doing.
I got you. Okay, good.
Who's gonna watch it
when I'm going down there?
That's what I want to know.
It's probably about
Jeez
BEAR: How are you with heights?
COLMAN: I'm fine, I guess.
- [laughs]
- We've gotta find out.
[both laughing]
First time rappelling,
and that's a good word for that,
because I'm repelled
by the idea of doing this.
But I'm gonna do it.
It's a long way down.
♪♪♪♪♪
It's a very deep drop...
so I will just say, uh, deuces.
[laughs]
Colman, you're gonna be
on the second line as well.
You'll have one line
that will go to here.
- COLMAN: Right.
- BEAR: And all you've gotta do
is just not take
your hand off it.
Because I know Bear
does so much of this stuff,
so, when he teaches me,
I'm really listening.
Just keep feeding it
through, like that.
Like, I'm listening like
it's, like, the third grade,
and it's a math test.
I'm like, listening,
because I want to get it right.
[lines clinking]
BEAR: I personally like
looking down,
even though it's a bit scary,
it's like, okay, I've got it.
If you don't look down,
look at your feet.
"Just look at my feet."
I'll look at my feet.
BEAR: Nice, wide stance.
And if you do slip or fall,
just mindful always
of your head as you go.
Just protect yourself.
- I won't slip or fall.
- BEAR: You won't slip or fall.
[Colman laughs]
It's gonna be fine, Colman.
I got you.
Okay, this is the...
committing bit.
Wow, look, the rope
just reaching the bottom.
[lines clinking]
COLMAN: How you doing?
BEAR: I'll see you
on the bottom.
It's a long way down.
BEAR: Yeah, this bit...
is overhanging.
[rope whirring]
♪♪♪♪♪
Good Lord.
You there yet?
♪♪♪♪♪
Okay, down.
Wow.
Yeah, for a first-time one,
that's gonna be quite
committing for Colman.
I think I'm gonna not tell him
about the overhang bit.
One of those things it's kinda
better just to discover it.
♪♪♪♪♪
COLMAN: It's like,
at the beginning, you're like,
"Oh, cool, I got this,
I got this."
Until you get to the edge,
and then your feet
are like-- you're like,
"Wait a minute.
"Oh, oh, oh, hold on."
And then I looked
just a little bit.
Whoa! [bleep]! Oh!
There was no time to panic.
I was like,
"Trust it, and keep going,
and stay calm."
Whew!
Oh, [bleep].
Okay. [humming]
Okay.
Whew! Okay.
I'm not gonna look down at all.
There's something in me
that just clicks over and says,
"Okay, just calm.
"Calm's the only way you're
gonna get through this."
It's fine.
Okay.
Mm-hmm!
Ooh! Ah!
Oh, God.
Okay.
[sighs heavily]
- [rope whirring]
- I don't like that sound!
Good Lord.
Great job, Colman.
COLMAN: Okay.
Thank you.
BEAR: Tom Cruise,
eat your heart out.
- [Colman grunting]
- BEAR: Come on.
[laughs] Hey, Bear.
Oh!
- Oh!
- Oh, beautiful.
- Well done.
- Yeah, thanks, man.
- Good job.
- Oh!
- Well done.
- Wow!
See, it was good for me
not to look down. Yeah.
I think I almost forgot that I
like being in the air like that
until, like, I was, like,
halfway through,
and, like, that thing of, like,
where I used to be in the circus
sorta kicked in.
It was like, "Oh, no, you're--
you're good at heights.
"This is good for you."
I was in the circus, because
I was an aerial web artist.
- Really?
- But I was 21-- yeah,
because I was 21 and foolish,
and doing things like that.
So, what were you doing for
aerial, what does that mean?
COLMAN: That means you climb up
this long rope.
You're, like, 200 feet in
the air or something like that.
BEAR: How do you have
a safety on that?
There was no safety.
It was like, you put your--
no, you climb up that rope.
And I remember putting my ankle
in this little loop.
And that was it.
There was no safety.
- That was the safety.
- Like, mine's old-school.
- Like--
- Talons are easy.
Talons? Those are, like...
You could only dream of talons.
There was no talons.
It was just a dream and a wish.
Well, respect. I knew there was
something in your background,
because you nailed that.
- [laughs] Thank you. Thank you.
- Well done.
He's a circus rat.
I mean, absolute legend.
That's why he's good
with heights.
That was the only other job
I would ever have wanted to do
when I was growing up,
to be a circus rat.
I mean, it's so fun.
Well, the good thing is,
we're on the shore now.
We'll follow this route.
[both laughing]
Had to kiss that,
that's what I wanted to do.
[laughs] Yeah, good.
And look, we've got
masses to eat.
To eat?
Oh, look at all that seaweed.
Do you know that stuff?
Look, Bladderwrack.
Come with me.
COLMAN: Wait, you're not
gonna eat that, are you?
In the UK, they're, like,
basically all edible.
So if I'm just, like,
at the beach,
I'm like, "Let me go
snack on this."
- 100%.
- Yeah?
But it gets better than that.
You've got vitamin K.
You've got iodine.
- Are you serious?
- Yeah.
I mean, it's gonna be
a little bit chewy and salty.
It's actually really good.
Everything you find...
Bladderwrack, save your life.
It's fantastic.
[waves crashing]
BEAR: Quick hydrate,
and then we get moving again.
COLMAN: Great.
Do you ever kinda look back
on all those younger years,
like, when you were doing
things like the circus,
and... does that feel
a long way away?
It does. It feels like a--
Feels like a different person
then, as well.
You know, I feel like I was just
on the verge of all these things
that have eventually
happened for me.
And I didn't know how
I would get to the career
that I have now, but I knew
that I was planting seeds.
I was just-- I just wanted
to be in rooms,
and try things, and use my body.
Like, I have-- I don't have
a problem with looking silly
- or being wrong.
- Yeah.
And I think that's the only way
that you can actually,
like, push yourself.
I think that's what
brings me here.
I'm like, I don't know.
I-- I might fail at all of this.
But I think
that's actually thrilling.
What were the years like before
you started to see some success
from all your hard work?
Lots of ups and downs.
Both my parents passed away
in 2006, six months apart.
That's before I had any sort
of access in this industry,
and that was really hard.
I talk about them a lot because
they were so meaningful to me.
They were really good people,
and my best friends,
and people who really
believed in me.
- Yeah.
- COLMAN: You know?
So, when they passed,
I wanted my life
and the rest of my life
to be about love.
Try to love yourself,
love each other,
love what you do,
love every moment you have,
and... because life
is fragile, man.
[gentle music]
It's sad that your mom
and stepdad didn't get to see
the kind of fruits of all
of their love for you,
and their sacrifice,
and all of your hard work.
- That's hard.
- But you know what?
It is, but you know what, man?
And which is why
I literally got emotional
when I was up in the, uh,
in the clouds.
And I do think...
that they live with you,
and you do it for them, too,
and they're flying with you.
I do know that they're flying
with me at all times,
especially moments like this.
I mean, look-- look where I am.
I come from inner city
West Philadelphia.
[waves crash softly]
And to come here,
when I tell you
I never want to take
this stuff for granted,
and I appreciate it,
and I'm-- and I'm like,
wow, look at where
this life can take you.
- Hmm.
- Look at where love
can take you.
♪♪♪♪♪
And when you can take
a leap of faith and say,
"They're right here with me,
just be with me."
That's all I have.
That's all I have. I'm gonna--
I'm gonna leave it to spirit.
I'm gonna leave it,
but I know that my-- my parents
are right there with me, so...
I'm gonna trust what this is.
- Oh, man, cheering you on.
- Oh, man.
Cheering you on.
It's so beautiful.
I'm a softie, man.
No, but it's beautiful,
and true.
Of that, there is no doubt.
So, get this.
My mother wrote to Oprah
like, six times.
She's like, well,
"I'm writing to Oprah
"because Oprah helps people."
I'm like, what's
she gonna to do for me?
She-- She can't help me.
She would just have
these dreams for me
that I did not have for myself.
I literally just wanted
to be a working actor,
and respected,
and do some good plays.
The dreams that you
have for yourself
- are very small, and limited.
- Yeah.
And sometimes someone dreams
bigger for you,
and pours their dreams into you.
I wrote this play called
Wild with Happy.
It was a big success at The
Public Theater in New York City.
And I thought, well, who would
I want to play my mother?
Well, what if I asked Oprah?
And so I just called her up
and asked her.
And she said,
"I would love that."
And I was like,
"Are you kidding me?"
So Oprah plays my mother now,
after my mother dreamed of me
and Oprah being together.
BEAR: Wow.
So, that's your mum from beyond
giving you a gift.
- Yeah. I think so.
- [laughs]
Well, that's so cool.
That's a good-- That's a life
moment right there.
It's a beautiful life moment,
like this one, man.
BEAR: Okay, look.
It's gonna get rockier here.
That also means food.
Wow.
BEAR: So, once we're on
the shoreline like this,
it's always good
to take a chance
to try and find some food.
We have got seaweed, but kinda,
ideally, we want a bit more.
We look for some
of the little rock pools.
I bet we'll find
some little crabs.
Like under here, look.
COLMAN: You think you'll find
a little crab?
BEAR: They like-- they like
going under the rocks.
Just have a little scout around.
COLMAN: Okay.
Little crab, come on out.
BEAR: All of these rock pools,
this whole area
we're entering now,
is perfect for finding
shore crabs.
As the tide goes out, it leaves
these little rock pools
still with salt water in them.
And a lot of them
have undercut ledges
where the tide and the surf
hits it.
And if you reach under,
feel around,
you'll definitely find
some shore crabs.
You do need to watch out,
though, with the bigger ones.
If those get hold of you,
you're gonna know about it.
- Colman?
- Yeah?
Look.
COLMAN: You got a lot of crabs?
- BEAR: Look under here. Look.
- COLMAN: Oh, [bleep]!
That's not a little crab.
That's huge.
- I know, I'm trying to get--
- Wait.
What do you want me to do?
BEAR: I'm trying
to get his back leg.
- COLMAN: You need help?
- BEAR: Yeah.
I don't know what I can do,
but I can...
knock it over,
and hit it with a rock.
BEAR: See where my fingers are?
COLMAN: Uh-huh.
- BEAR: You grab it there.
- COLMAN: Okay.
BEAR: But don't let go.
So, his big pincers are gonna
come around
and try and grab you.
- COLMAN: Oh, God, no!
- BEAR: Okay? Just keep--
Okay, yeah, yeah, we got it.
COLMAN: Oh...
- BEAR: Let's have a look.
- Shut the [bleep] up.
- [Bear laughs]
- What?
Wow.
- Yeah, these can--
- That's beautiful.
Most people at this
stage are like, "Aah!"
Whenever I come across
a snake or a tarantula,
they're, like,
gone the other way.
Colman's, like, straight in
there. "I'll grab it."
Okay, okay, but just don't stick
your finger in the pincer.
The key is always
grabbing them...
- From there.
- Oh, right, grab it like that.
'Cause these are
unbelievably powerful.
COLMAN: That's what'll
come after you.
- BEAR: Yeah.
- COLMAN: Yeah.
Oh, [bleep]. That's cool.
I think I would not
touch that crab
outside of this situation.
But, apparently,
I run to things like that.
Maybe I'm more of an outdoorsman
than I even imagined.
That's going in the backpack.
That's what I was-- Yeah,
knock-- yeah, knock him out.
- We'll have that later.
- Cool, good. Ooh.
- You sure he dead, right?
- He's dead.
[laughing] Come on.
BEAR: We've come to an impasse
where the towering cliffs
of this coastline
block the travel by foot.
Instead, we're gonna have
to make our way by sea.
I've cached
a small inflatable Zodiac.
Now all we've gotta do
is find it.
We're looking for an orange
inflatable 30-year-old lifeboat.
[Colman chuckles]
Only the best for you, Colman.
Oh, there we go.
There's our boat.
COLMAN: That looks
old and orange.
- BEAR: Old and orange.
- [Colman laughs]
Okay, so I think
we're stripped down
- so it stays--
- Stripped down to what?
Just, like, whatever you--
I'm gonna go just in,
like, boxer shorts.
- Just--
- [Colman laughing]
I mean, I'm warning you,
it's quite cold.
I think the hardest part
of everything--
I thought jumping out
of the plane was, like,
the most I was gonna do today.
I'm like, "Cool, I did it.
"Oh, good, good.
Now it's time for lunch."
- I didn't know there was a...
- Bladderwrack.
[laughs]
The bladderwrack and crab.
- And an annoyed Welsh crab.
- Hanging down-- [laughs]
Exactly.
BEAR: I mean,
the hardest part of all of this
might be starting
that outboard engine.
- Okay.
- Okay.
Let's do it.
BEAR: One thing
I know about this area,
this time of year,
the water's still pretty cold.
Colman, I know, isn't
the most confident of swimmers,
so we'll do this together.
We'll put all our clothes
in this dry sack,
so that's gonna be
our buoyancy as well to help us.
You've got strong currents
as well around here.
Bracing for a cold one.
[laughs]
We did realize that
one is a boxer man
and one is a briefs man, and
that's me. I'm the briefs man.
And we're about to go
and get that orange Zodiac,
which seems to be one of the
oldest Zodiacs on the planet.
I'm a swimmer who likes,
uh, a pool. This?
Not so much.
I said it was cold.
COLMAN: Ah!
BEAR:
Yeah.
Ooh!
[both laughing]
BEAR: Okay,
we're almost swimming.
- COLMAN: Okay.
- You ready?
COLMAN: Ooh!
BEAR: Here we go.
There are sharks here, and, uh,
now I'm a little
less comfortable.
So remember I was calm earlier?
I don't think I'm as calm
right now. [laughs]
BEAR: You can always use that.
So lean on that.
Keep kicking.
Keep kicking. There we go.
- Whew!
- Whew.
BEAR: Okay, let's get
our breath back.
- Well done.
- COLMAN: Thanks, brother.
BEAR:
COLMAN: [bleep]!
Am I dying?
No, I'm okay.
- Whoo!
- Then we're gonna just roll in.
You ready?
Ooh!
- Watching out for it.
- BEAR: I got it, I got it.
- There, there you go.
- COLMAN: Thank you, sir.
- Brilliant.
- Oh, [bleep]!
- Easy.
- [panting] That's good.
- Well done.
- Thanks, man.
- Well done to you.
- [Colman exhales]
Yeah, this
is an old Zodiac, this.
Okay, now let's see if
this thing is gonna start.
[motor sputtering]
- Might go more...
- Oh, [bleep].
- You got it. You got it, Bear.
- [motor starts]
- Oh, yeah.
- You got it!
There we go!
Okay. We're heading this way.
- You ready?
- Let's go.
[adventurous music]
BEAR: The cliffs on
this northern coastline
are only accessible by boat,
and we've still got quite
a bit of journeying left to do.
First, we've got to climb up
some of these steep cliffs
before traversing
and then rappelling down
to our extraction point.
The Zodiac will only
get us so close,
so before we can
dry off our queensberries,
we need to get ashore.
I think we just in and do it
whilst we're still kind of,
like, vaguely fired up.
Otherwise you start getting cold
and you just don't wanna get in.
- You ready?
- You mean like right now?
Wait, what? Okay, wait, okay.
- [bleep]. [bleep].
- Ready, set...
See ya.
- I'm gonna stand on the edge.
- Okay.
Dive in, I'll be there.
We've got the buoyancy together.
Like one length of a big pool.
- Ready, set...
- [bleep].
See ya.
[intense music]
Whew!
♪♪♪♪♪
Okay.
[bleep].
Oh, wow!
[Colman panting]
Well done. Good job.
No, I'm proud of you,
'cause it's like--
it's cold water,
and after a bit of journey,
you're then cold, with the wind.
Getting back in
the cold water's not easy.
- It's not fun either.
- And also, like, it's not
your favorite thing, swimming,
but you just, like, did it.
I am so proud of myself today!
I feel like I did things I never
imagined that I would do.
I feel alive,
that's what I feel.
Somebody believes you can do it,
it's a big difference. You know?
- BEAR: Yeah.
- If I was by myself,
I probably would've
never done this [bleep].
Together, stronger. Well done.
- Get dry, get changed.
- Let's do it.
The journey continues from here.
We need to get dry,
push on while
we've still got daylight.
- Where you going?
- Well, we need to go together.
That's like a little bit--
this is like
nature's fortress down here,
isn't it?
I haven't got anything
to tie stuff to,
so we'll just buddy-buddy it.
Wait, what does that mean?
- So, clip you into this.
- Okay.
- BEAR: We'll go together.
- COLMAN: Oh, jeez.
I jumped down in my chonies
and we got into the water,
I felt okay.
You're feeling good.
You're feeling empowered.
We'll just go in
little bite-sized chunks.
Wait, wha-- Oh, okay, um...
'Cause also,
you think you're at the end.
Okay, wait, wait, wait! So we
just gonna raw dog this thing?
- So, foot up there.
- Oh, my God. Okay. [laughs]
But this guy doesn't know
what an end means.
BEAR: Great job, Colman.
Round here now.
He just keeps going.
[grunts] That's it?
BEAR: We're on
safe ground now here.
Whew.
That one gets a kiss, too.
[laughs] Yeah. Well done.
Okay, quick hydrate,
and then we'll carry on.
You won't get a better
beauty spot than this.
Can't see a house,
a track, a person.
It's me and you, kid.
[chuckling]
- No, I-- I love it.
- COLMAN: It's beautiful.
You look at your last few years,
the number of projects,
the number of films you've done.
It's just like,
can't think of anyone else
who's done so much so fast.
You're working
with Steven Spielberg.
- You've done that now twice.
- Yeah. I'm working with Steven.
I have a movie
with Antoine Fuqua,
which is a biopic
about Michael Jackson.
I have the third season
of Euphoria.
Um, I'm going back to do
The Four Seasons with Tina Fey,
and I'm a director
on that show, too.
But I also agree that
we're all just animals
who like to rub
our crotches on things.
Exactly!
- Exactly?
- [laughter]
You're so well-known
and so well-loved
for the range of things
you can do.
Listen, for over 25 years,
it was always like this.
You're always playing catch-up.
I had some really
frustrating moments
and, like, some huge,
epic moments
where I just
wasn't booking work.
I went home one day after
I didn't get this huge audition,
and I was so sad about it.
I sort of had
a breakdown of sorts.
I sort of, like, fell apart.
And so I said,
"I can't take it anymore."
I said, "I feel like
this is gonna k*ll me."
Mmm.
And then one of my dear friends,
Daniel, said, "Hey, you know,
"you should at least
meet with my managers,
"who've been wanting
to meet with you for years."
Begrudgingly, I met with them.
I sat in a meeting
with my arms folded.
But the clearest thing, I was
very clear in that meeting,
I thought, "This is what I do
and this is who I am."
But I was very clear because
I think I had nothing to lose.
And they were like, "Well,
we would love to work with you,
"and we'd like to help you make
the changes that you wanna make
"to have the career
that you want."
And things started
to happen pretty quickly.
I think it takes a long time
for you to realize and be able
to articulate exactly
who you are and what you do.
And when you know that,
it liberates you.
Hmm. So cool.
- Thanks, man.
- That's a gift.
Talking of a gift, we should--
While we're chatting,
we should get this crab cooked.
Cook it out here?
What are we gonna do?
- Yeah, I think so.
- Oh, get out of here!
- I was joking. [laughs]
- No, it's great.
I don't know
who I'm dealing with.
I guess-- Yeah, you know,
we're gonna cook it out here.
- Of course we are.
- Yeah.
A little cooker.
COLMAN: Do you cook like this
all the time?
Like, even when you're at home,
you're just all...
That's gonna be
full of good meat.
- Okay.
- And then we've got crab meat,
broth, hydration.
Do you know these?
- COLMAN: No.
- Waterproof matches.
So even when
it's Welsh wet, raining...
- COLMAN: Shut up!
- ...that's still gonna light.
And then...
It's so good, it won't blow out.
BEAR: You have, you know,
in the Time magazine,
on the planet.
You know, that's
an incredible influence to have.
What sort of influence
do you want to have?
People may not remember
what you said,
but they will always remember
the way you make them feel.
- Yeah.
- And so for me, if I made
a lot of people feel real good,
or make them feel, like, worthy,
or they had a voice, I feel
like I've done a good job.
BEAR: Yeah.
- Okay, should we try this?
- COLMAN: Sure.
Bubbling and cooked.
COLMAN: Ooh,
it smells good, actually.
Bit of the claw first.
COLMAN: Just banging the claw.
Here, try a bit of that.
That's just gonna be great.
Wow.
Okay, that's really good.
- BEAR: Oh, man.
- It's really good.
Yeah. I mean, that's as fresh
as you're gonna get.
- That's so beautiful.
- BEAR: Well, I can tell you,
in terms of wilderness food,
it can get an awful lot worse.
I think I hit the jackpot
on this one.
- BEAR: Yeah. Yeah.
- [laughing]
Okay, so, from here,
we wanna get up high,
really, now.
- COLMAN: Okay.
- 'Cause this peninsula goes on.
And we're gonna go
over the top of it,
drop down the other side,
and then--
And then?
How's there an "and then"?
- Then there's the extraction.
- [Colman laughing]
You wanna launch him
into the sea?
Yeah.
We got to name him first. Uh...
See you, Jeffrey.
See you, Jeffrey. [laughs]
BEAR: Okay,
so up, and over the top.
Oh, we've got a sheep track.
This is good.
We'll use this.
[intriguing music]
Okay, here we go. Come on.
So, we're almost at
the end of the journey now.
We've reached the last bit
of this peninsula.
I can see, from the top
of the cliffs here,
our extraction point.
Oh, wow, there's a big
drop here, Colman.
That's got to be 150-plus feet
to the bottom,
probably twice the size of what
we did at the start of the day.
- COLMAN: Jeez.
- [laughs] That's a long way.
[bleep] no.
- [laughing]
- [bleep].
This is where
we need to get down--
We're not going down there!
I'm not going down there.
BEAR: This is pretty well
end of the journey
once we're down there.
Yeah, it's the end of the
journey, 'cause you'll be dead!
BEAR: We need to find
something to tie off to.
I'm well open to ideas.
I don't know what that is.
[grunts]
Try and get that out.
Okay, that's good.
BEAR: I mean,
it's a little tenuous.
That's a lot tenuous.
I thought I was done
after the, uh, jumping
out of the flying contraption.
I thought,
"Okay, well, that's good.
"I survived that.
I'm still standing."
BEAR: This needs to be
strong enough to hold us.
Uh...
And then it just keeps
getting worse. [laughing]
- [grunting]
- That's not moving, is it?
That really is not moving.
But it's the stuff on the ground
that seems it'll be
more stressful.
I mean,
I'm happy if you're happy.
- That's not going anywhere.
- "Happy" is not a word
for me right now.
It's-- I'm fine.
Whenever I see things like this,
I always think back to, like,
my old sergeant in the military
who did all
the climbing stuff with us.
Always just going,
"It's all about the anchor."
He would look at that and go,
"That is subpar."
You know, it's rusty.
I don't know how old it is.
We don't know how deep it is.
What you've got to do
is keep a foot on it.
What I don't want
happening is that.
Okay?
Keep a-- keep a foot on it.
We're gonna lasso it.
Good.
That little slip just did me in.
That slip up like that,
and then just, uh...
We'll see how this goes.
[laughs] This is the last one,
I think.
[pained laughing]
I think it's the last one.
I think it is. It's great.
[tense music]
BEAR: Same routine again, okay?
If you see the spike moving,
step on it.
And then just trust
the system again.
- Okay.
- Nice wide stance.
This one I'd recommend
not looking down.
- I won't look down at all.
- I'm just--
I don't wanna scare you.
COLMAN: Don't worry,
I'm already scared.
- Wide stance, you got it.
- COLMAN: Okay.
- BEAR: Yeah?
- COLMAN: Yeah.
BEAR: You got it.
[Colman groans]
And he disappeared
just like that.
BEAR: This is a long drop.
Pretty long way down.
And Bear is making his way down
in a nice, easy stride,
and I'm gonna try
to emulate that.
One of those ones
where when you look down,
it's like, "Oh, boy!"
♪♪♪♪♪
And I'm not gonna look down.
I'm really not gonna look down.
Okay, Colman. When you're
ready, you're good to go.
Oh, God.
[exhales] Okay, this is, um...
Whew.
♪♪♪♪♪
Oh, God! Okay, um...
Uh...
It's gonna be good.
It's gonna be great.
Okay? It's gonna be great.
I'ma step off now.
And that's gonna hold me.
[exclaims]
Uh... it's gonna be good, okay?
It's gonna be great.
I'ma step off now.
And that's gonna hold me.
Oh, [bleep]!
Whew! I'm good.
I'm good. I got this.
[exhales] I'm good. All right.
[intense music]
That was gnarly.
♪♪♪♪♪
All the way.
That one... was harrowing.
That took all the strength
that I had, to be honest.
I was like, "Wow!"
- How was the edge?
- The edge was the edge.
BEAR: [laughs]
The edge was the edge, yeah.
That drop was the drop
that almost did me in.
We're almost there, Colman!
We're almost there.
- Almost?
- We've got half a mile to go...
- No!
- ...of rocky terrain.
- [bleep].
- No more big drops.
COLMAN: Bear keeps promising
that it's the end.
I don't even know how we're
gonna get out of here. I don't--
I hope that there's a limo
or something picking us up,
'cause I feel like
I deserve to have a massage.
- After a bit of it...
- Yeah.
...you have so much adrenaline,
and the cold and then warm
and then hike, and then
adrenaline again, and, like,
you know, it gets tiring.
Then you're like,
"Just take me, Jesus."
- Just take me.
- Just take me. It's fine.
Fatigue is different
from work ethic.
You know, you can be tired,
but you still keep going.
So now that's where we're going.
- Cool.
- BEAR: And that is Colman.
He'll lay there for about
ten seconds going, "Oh, boy."
Then he's on his feet
and we're moving again.
Yeah, I love that.
I respected it.
[adventurous music]
COLMAN:
BEAR: I do. I was christened
Edward and then Michael.
- Edward Michael.
- Yeah, yeah.
COLMAN: Why Bear?
BEAR: Well,
I've got an older sister.
She's eight years older,
and I was her, like, teddy bear.
- COLMAN: Aww!
- You know, she was, like,
so excited I was born,
and finally she had
a little brother, and I was
just like the little bear.
- That is so sweet.
- So it was always Bear, yeah.
COLMAN: But it's wild to me
because, like, Bear now,
it took on
a whole other form for you.
I know, yeah.
So I didn't like it as a kid.
But actually, it's been great.
But isn't it something you--
'Cause you grew into it.
Exactly.
♪♪♪♪♪
You strike me as, like,
such a people person.
- COLMAN: Yeah.
- Is that a sort of driving
force for you in your life,
as you like to be surrounded
- by good people you work with?
- Yeah, and you know where
I think I get it from?
My parents threw parties
all the time.
My mother's sisters and brothers
all lived in the neighborhood.
- Yeah.
- So people were just always
constantly walking in the house
at any time going, "Hey, hey!"
So having people drop by
is not a problem for me.
I like people. But when I'm at
home, I sort of unplug all that.
Yeah, you need
a recharge as well.
Yeah, for real, yeah.
What are your sort of big
dreams still in your life?
Do you operate like that?
No one tells you this
when you hit your fifties.
You're like, it becomes
the best part of your life.
And I like becoming an older man
and figuring out what that is.
I know how to say "no"
more often, I know myself,
and I feel like I've learned
and have great ideas
about leadership.
For a long time in my career,
I was always sort of
the supporting actor
or the one sort of
behind the scenes a bit more.
So I know that
my directing career,
I'm directing more films
and television, and I feel like
I'm looking forward
to that stuff in the future.
The world needs more leaders
like you who value people.
- Thank you, man.
- Yeah. And I think you're only
just entering your power zone.
Mmm. Thank you, brother.
- Yeah.
- I appreciate you so much.
This has been truly wonderful.
Really.
You ready to get out of here?
Uh, yes, I am.
♪♪♪♪♪
Besides my birth,
my wedding day,
this is the next best day.
It's the greatest day
I think I've had
in the last,
I don't know, 55 years.
- BEAR: Right here, baby.
- COLMAN: The helicopter--
Come on. It's just all too much.
It's fantastic.
♪♪♪♪♪
I think this is the lesson,
the true lesson:
to live, and to live fully.
BEAR:
COLMAN:
BEAR:
Okay. [exclaims, laughs]
Oh, [bleep]! Oh!
BEAR: Colman is
a true never-give-upper.
He is someone
who has had to fight
and work so hard in his life
for his success.
COLMAN: Wow! [bleep] yeah!
- Whoo!
- BEAR: But it's more than that.
He truly loves life,
loves people,
and I think that combination,
with a work ethic like he's got
and that never-give-up spirit,
I have a feeling
his best years are ahead.
Colman Domingo, Running Wild!
Running Wild, baby! Whoo!
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