{"id":624906,"date":"2026-04-23T03:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/624906\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T03:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T03:36:08","slug":"it-was-breath-by-breath-tyler-atkins-and-daniel-macpherson-on-the-visceral-grit-and-near-collapses-of-mma-drama-beast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/624906\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It was breath by breath&#8217;: Tyler Atkins and Daniel MacPherson on the \u2018visceral grit\u2019 and near-collapses of MMA drama &#8216;Beast&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Subscribe to continue reading.<\/p>\n<p>Keep connected to the Australian screen industry. With a subscription, you\u2019ll get access to exclusive premium content including in-depth features, opinion, analysis and business and talent profiles. You can also upgrade to access our comprehensive In Production listings, covering hundreds of projects. Sign up with a 7 day free trial.<\/p>\n<p>Early on in Tyler Atkins\u2019 Beast, Daniel MacPherson\u2019s retired mixed martial arts fighter Patton James is shown on a fishing boat in the middle of a storm, struggling to keep control as waves and rain batter the vessel.<\/p>\n<p>According to MacPherson, the scene could serve as a metaphor for the film\u2019s production, which faced its own sea of challenges over the past four years, ranging from casting to budget to physical and mental setbacks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI guess the analogy is, Tyler and I were on a ship in the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Subscribe to continue reading. Keep connected to the Australian screen industry. With a subscription, you\u2019ll get access to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624907,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,248119,292513,786,785,11603,85,293676],"class_list":["post-624906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-beast","tag-daniel-macpherson","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-premium","tag-sports","tag-tyler-atkins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=624906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}