Did You Know These Behind-The-Scenes Facts About "Cast Away"?

Many Extras Had AIDS In Real Life

The nonprofit Action Wellness helped the crew find more than 50 extras with HIV and AIDS to appear in the film. Today, only one member of that group is still alive. “I am so happy to be alive, but I have survivor’s guilt,” Suellen Kehler said at the Philadelphia Film Center screening of the film and the documentary short The Last Mile. “I ask myself ‘Why me? Why just me?’”