![]() ![]() If I come out, my hair’s all fucked up, I’m scratching my butt–that’s what I really do and they’re filming that. The crew has its own camp and safety person, who she said watches their backs and also handles logistical things like cooking and cleaning. “That way, I’m doing my thing. You can’t schedule the crazy stuff, it just happens,” she told me. “Interesting and unique things happen not on a schedule. She said that the crew is “very respectful” and “it’s pretty neat how we’re all growing as a small community to get it done.” The producers work with her to figure out when to film, but Sue was characteristically blunt about the fact that she’s going to do what she’s going to do, whether the cameras are there or not, whether the crew is ready or not. Well, I have Sasquatch behind me wearing blue. “I’ll be all ninja and I’ll turn around here’s a 6-foot guy wearing a blue jacket being a 6-foot blueberry and the birds go…” Sue makes a flapping noise, and continues: “Well, the audience only sees that. Working with a camera crew has presented challenges for her. “It’s my goal to have people see and enjoy a rawness of nature that they’re not going to see anywhere else.” She pointed out that, as a white, non-native person, “In order to be there I have to lease land from the state and have a profitable business,” she said. Hunters come there for about four or five weeks out of the year, but the majority of the clients, eco-tourism, the bird-watchers,” she said. Sue runs the Kavik River Camp, which costs $350 per person per night. “People have billed it as a hunting camp and it’s certainly not. Life Below Zero’s Sue Aikens (Photo by Jared Staeyaert/BBC Worldwide Ltd) Although she is now a reality TV star, she’s not one to be changed by that experience. You can see why she makes such a great subject for reality TV, and her candor and good nature were both evident when I interviewed her this summer. If you turn around and say, ‘I think it’ll look great if you fell through the river, I’m gonna say, ‘Fuck you.’ There’s enough interesting things that happen you do not have to fabricate.” She told him, “I will never do anything scripted. ![]() Although it focuses on multiple people, the show’s break-out star is Sue Aikens.īesides appearing on Mark Burnett’s show Sarah Palin’s Alaska, Sue appeared on a few episodes of Discovery’s Flying Wild Alaska, which shares a producer with Life Before Zero, who approached her about doing the show. ![]() It’s one of many reality shows set in Alaska, focusing on people who live far away from civilization as most of us know it. National Geographic Channel’s Life Before Zero returns tonight for its fourth season. ![]()
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