“The thing is, you have to let your emotions go to a point of exposed nerves, and everyone is doing a very unnatural thing. “You see a bond that is real, and with actors sometimes a heightened reality, an unreal reality,” the actor said.
“That time of darkness and holding onto to the light and hope and having it play during that part of the movie was just a ‘one plus one equals three’ type of scenario, where it is all combines in a powerful spot.”īrolin said that making the film allowed him to feel a sense of the camaraderie that he found while working as a volunteer firefighter in his early 20s, while working on the set of the western television series The Young Riders, an authentic friendship that he has missed to this day. “I tried to write a few other, but I just couldn’t leave that song, because it was just too perfect for the movie,” Bentley admitted. In composing “Hold the Light,” Bentley and Carey worked closely with Brave composer Trapanese, making sure that the film’s theme fit seamlessly within the song’s lyrical message. In 2013, he organized and hosted the Country Cares Concert in Arizona, raising more than half a million dollars for the families left behind by the tragic deaths of the firefighting unit. The song - cowritten by Bentley, Carey, Jon Randall, and film composer Joe Trapanese - marks Bentley’s first time writing and recording specifically for a motion picture soundtrack, although not the first time that his music has touched upon the lives of those related to the Granite Mountain Hotshots.