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Zach Gilford Sizes Up the Hollywood Scene
By Amy RATHke, NOLS DeveLOPmeNT COmmuNiCA-TiONS COORDiNATOR
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hen was the last time you had to treat a emurracture? For Zach Gilord, it is all in a day’s work As a cast member on ABC’s television series
Off the Map
, a medical drama based in remote ruralSouth America, Zach requently starred in scenesrequiring his character to think quickly and makesound medical decisions But unlike ellow castmembers, Zach brought something unique to thetable: real wilderness experience rom NOLS andhands-on wilderness medical training rom WMIGrowing up outside Chicago, Zach spent hissummers at camp in Michigan “I always wanted tolead trips or my camp,” he says, “but they wouldn’thire me until I was 21” So then 20-year-old Zachdecided to take a NOLS Pacifc Northwest OutdoorEducator course I he couldn’t lead trips right then,at least he could get the training to lead trips later“Even though he was the youngest student onthe course, he was unny and charismatic,” recallsNOLS Pacifc Northwest Director Chris Agnew,one o Zach’s instructors “Everyone loved him”Following that summer, Zach certifed as a Wilderness First Responder through WMI Hethen worked or seven seasons or AdventuresCross-Country, an outdoor travel program or teens,leading trips rom Yosemite to Alaska to Hawaii“I just love being outside,“ he says “Sharing thesethings with people or the frst time, I’ve never seenanyone whose eyes didn’t literally light up”But it wasn’t leading youth expeditions thatmade Zach amous It was his role as high schoolootball quarterback Matt Saracen in the critically acclaimed NBC television series
Friday Night Lights
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Off the Map
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The River Why
and has starred in severalother eature-length flmsCombining his love or the outdoors with anacting career hasn’t been simple or Zach Thesummer ater signing with an agent and a man-ager, Zach led trips in the Rockies and the GrandCanyon Explaining that he would only have accessto his phone every three weeks didn’t go over very well Zach was met with disbelie and conusion“What do you mean? You’ll check your phone atnight, right?” his representatives asked, perplexedBut these days it’s less jarring or his agent, managerand publicist when Zach heads into the backcoun-try “I’ve kind o taken all these people I work within this weird, sometimes disgusting industry, andmade them part o my team,” says Zach “And now they get it They get me” Although these days Zach doesn’t spend entiresummers in the wilderness, he still brings his wilder-ness training to the set When working on a flm ortelevision show, an urban version o the possibilitiesbag is never ar rom his side “On set everybody makes un o me—I take my backpack everywhere,”he says He keeps all the predictable items close athand, including a water bottle, a book, a clean t-shirt,and his avorite snack “The last two months I’ve beenaddicted to peanuts,” he admits “Don’t worry, I pour,I don’t stick my hand in the bag!”Working on the set o a medical drama wasespecially ulflling to Zach, who was probably the only actor who showed up with WMI medicalscenarios running through his head “I think ourmed tech on the show got a little annoyed with me,”Zach says sheepishly “She was great—she was anurse, she knows medicine and she knew what she was doing But the thing was, she was used to doingit all in a hospital”So when it came time to set up one scene, Zachliterally did a “scene size-up” Directed to move his“patient” rom a stable position underneath a treebeore he—the doctor—could prep his splintingmaterials, Zach said, “Whoa, whoa, whoa! Thisguy’s leg is broken—that’s a serious injury Why would I pull him out and then get everything ready?Especially because I’m probably going to need tomake a traction splint” Needless to say, the set med-ical technician was not amusedFrom changing medical drama scripts to be WMI-compliant to making sure he has everything with him when he gets “stuck” on set to orcing castmembers to hold out their hands when they wantsome o his snacks, Zach is working hard to teachNOLS and WMI lessons in the unlikely settingo Hollywood And the next time he has the timebetween projects, we might just see him on anotherNOLS course
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