Everest Actor Jake Gyllenhaal Shares Awful Experience In The Movie’s Death Scene

Everest has been released this week with much talk on both wonders and perils of Mother Nature that the cast has to embrace.

In an interview with E! Online, Jake Gyllenhaal talks about his experience in working and adventuring in the set with other performers--Josh Broslin, Jason Clarke and its movie director, Baltasar Kormakur.

"If you're not shooting, then you're off on some other adventure with a few other guys because you're up on top of a mountain. Sitting around isn't the best thing to do...You got to stay warm...When you weren't shooting, you were just adventuring...It was great fun," the 35-year old American actor who played the role of real life climbing group leader Scott Fischer in Everest said.

Further, the actor said that filming of the real-life story is something he had enjoyed.

"The coolest part of the day was just starting in the morning and gearing up down the mountain. You have all your gear with you...It really doesn't feel like a movie at all."

The actor, however, has his worst moment in the filming of the death scene when he has to endure lying still in the snow with one actor set to slam a backpack on his face.

"I was laying there in the snow. The guy who plays Anatoli [Ingvar Eggert Sigurðsson] took my bag...and he just slams it on my face," he said.

During the promotion of the film at the Venice Film Festival, the LA-born actor shared that he remembered his late pal, Heath Ledger whom he had worked with in the 2005 controversial blockbuster, Brokeback Mountain, Mirror reported.

"I miss him very badly. having Heath around is very sad because I miss his expression and miss the conversations that we had over the years," the actor shared.

"Knowing that life is fragile makes you want to appreciate meaningful things and stop wasting time on things that are trivial and superficial. It made me want to be more present in everyday life and be as much in the moment as I can be."

The movie, directed by Baltasar Kormakur is said to be based on Jon Krakauer's "Into Thin Air."

In its first week of showing, Everest received mixed reviews with New Jersey.com saying that the movie did give its characters a chance to evolve and develop as it focuses more on its plot portraying struggles, survival and death.

"You get the feeling that all of them - Gyllenhaal in particular - have created rich backstories for their characters, but little of that comes through on the screen. (Of course it doesn't help that between their oxygen masks - and the howling wind - we often can't tell who's talking, or even what they're saying)"