The small town of Smithers, Canada might be known for their worldclass skiing and fishing, but if actor Ben Hernández Bray has anything to say about it, he never wants to visit the place again. Shooting the thriller “The Grey” there alongside actors Liam Neeson (“Taken”) and Dermot Mulroney (“J. Edgar”), Bray said the cast and crew had to be evacuated on a few occasions because of terrible snowstorms.

“It was about 20-30 degrees below zero with 80 mph winds,” Bray, who is of Irish and Mexican descent, told EXTRA during an interview last week. “Our heads were freezing so badly, we could barely say any of our dialogue.”

In “The Grey,” Bray plays Hernández, an airplane crash survivor who must survive in the wild while a pack of grey wolves stalk him and his team of oil drillers.

During our interview, Bray, who has worked as a stuntman in the film industry for nearly 20 years, talked about playing an actual character in a movie and how he thinks special effects have changed the way directors confront certain scenes in their movies.

EXTRA: Tell us about your character Hernández and what you liked so much about him.

Ben Hernández Bray: He is obviously a bad guy, but he seems to be one of those guys that could’ve gone to the good side or the bad side at a young age. I just understood him as a guy who was at the wrong place at the wrong time. I think there is a nice guy in Hernández, but he was just exposed to the wrong situations. But there is a soft spot to him. He has a heart.

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