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Nads: Your first episode airing tonight is Working In A Coal Mine...was that the hardest one to produce?
Morgan: From a production standpoint I think that was probably the most difficult. Being in a coal mine you're in an environment that is very constricting already, constricted in terms of the light, in terms of the air, in terms of just the, the mine that we shot in, the average height in the mine was about 5'5". So I'm 6'2", so like you're in a mine where you're hunched over constantly. Our producer, Al LaGarde, is also my height; he's like 6'2". Luckily, our cameraman, Michael Dean, was right around 5'6", 5'7", so he didn't have to hunch over so much. It's one of those things and you're in there shooting every day with a crew and with equipment.
Nads: What was your experience like in a coal mine?
Morgan: I just think for me it was just kind of eye opening and the people that you meet and these are people that none of us think about. It's a profession that none of us really know much about or know what goes on and we really take it for granted. These are people who are putting their lives on the line every single day to basically go underground and mine a resource that essentially enables you and I to turn on a light bulb every day. Fifty percent of our electricity comes from the work these guys do, and I don't think anybody thinks about that.
So I think for me that was probably just one of the many eye-opening things that you start to see. And as you're surrounded by these guys it really is a brotherhood of these people. It's a group of people that really look out for one another; they really care about one another. And I just felt really honored just to get to be a part of that.
Nads: How did the guys react to you when you first showed up at the coal mine?
Morgan: I think in the beginning they don't kind of know what to expect. They think I'm just going to show up and do a 9:00 to 5:00 gig or just come in and do a couple shots and then leave. But I think once I come in and they see that I'm there working every day, what you don't see is when the cameras aren't there I'm still working in the coal mine. The days when the crew has off I'm still a coal miner; I'm still going to work. I'm still mining every single day. It doesn't stop for me. This is their life. If it's their life, it's my life over the course of doing this show. And I think that when the miners and the guys that we were with saw that and they saw that I was just as invested in trying to really understand and comprehend and become a part of this then I think that they were much more open to me.
Nads: Have you ever had an episode where the participants just wanted to give up?
Comments (1)
Wow Nads, we were just all discussing this show in the forums and here you are on the main page interviewing Morgan, himself.
The show is great, he's great, your great, our forums are great, so anyone wanting to discuss "30 Days" further, stop by the forums and look for it by name. We love newbies.
1 of 1 | Posted by chooch850 | Posted on June 3, 2008 8:42 PM