Eric Christian Olsen & Co-Star Talk 'The Thing'

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When NCIS: Los Angeles star Eric Christian Olsen joined the cast of The Thing, the Universal Pictures prequel to John Carpenter’s 1982 horror classic, he had no idea that as his character faced isolation in the film he might face the same thing on set.

“We shot the first couple of exterior scenes at 10,000 feet, right on the border of Canada and Alaska, and I remember walking over to craft services, freezing, and I saw all this food,” Olsen recalled. “I was like, ‘Why is there so much food up here? We’re leaving.’” He turned to one of the crew members, who told him the extra food was to ensure they could survive if they were snowed in on top of the mountain.

“And it was the grizzled guy who was shoveling stuff, saying, ‘Yep, we’ll probably die!,” the actor laughed.

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Source: Spinoff Online.