{"id":2451863,"date":"2019-12-04T22:08:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T05:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/jim-ryan-cooper-branham-talk-about-role-in-warren-millers-timeless\/"},"modified":"2019-12-04T22:08:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T05:08:00","slug":"jim-ryan-cooper-branham-talk-about-role-in-warren-millers-timeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/jim-ryan-cooper-branham-talk-about-role-in-warren-millers-timeless\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Ryan, Cooper Branham talk about role in Warren Miller\u2019s \u2018Timeless\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Crested Butte’s Cooper Branham, left, and Jackson’s Jim Ryan are both in the latest Warren Miller film, which made its Aspen debut on Wednesday. (Photo by Austin Colbert\/The Aspen Times)<\/strong>
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Jim Ryan made his Warren Miller film debut with 2018\u2019s \u201cFace of Winter\u201d as the new guy trying to keep up in the Alaskan backcountry. His second go with the skiing industry\u2019s most iconic movie company was a whole lot better.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s way better. Year 2 is way more fun. Year 1 I didn\u2019t know what I was doing,\u201d Ryan said Wednesday from the top of Aspen Mountain.<\/p>\n

\u201cWorking in front of a camera is a whole separate skill set. You can be a really good skier and not know what looks good in front of a camera. And just feeling like I kind of belonged there felt really good.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ryan was taking laps with Cooper Branham ahead of the first of two showings of Warren Miller Entertainment\u2019s 70th film, \u201cTimeless,\u201d which made its Aspen debut Wednesday night at the Wheeler Opera House. While it was Ryan\u2019s second Warren Miller film, it was the first for Branham and Aspen skier own Baker Boyd, both of who had a role in the movie.<\/p>\n

Branham, a snowboarder from Washington who now lives in Crested Butte, shot his segment at Eldora Mountain Resort near Boulder last spring.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was fun to see a local scene like that, that hasn\u2019t quite gotten on the map yet, hasn\u2019t gotten enough recognition,\u201d Branham said. \u201cIt\u2019s been fun being a part of it. I grew up watching the movies with a lot of influence from that, so it\u2019s built me into a rider. So to be able to give that back to the kids that are watching it and be firsthand on that is really cool.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ryan, a skier from Vermont who now lives in Jackson, Wyoming, had his segment of the 2019 film shot in British Columbia, Canada, where he went heli-skiing. He said he\u2019s already started shooting for next year\u2019s Warren Miller film.<\/p>\n

Ryan has been able to bounce around the country and attend many of the film\u2019s showings. He was particularly interested in coming to Aspen\u2019s in support of Boyd and the Freaks ski gang he helped found alongside World Cup ski racer Wiley Maple and the late Sam Coffey.<\/p>\n

\u201cI definitely wanted to see what the Freaks were all about,\u201d Ryan said. \u201cI wanted to see what his squad was all about. They are notorious and I wanted to check it out and I\u2019ve already kind of seen that within one day of being here in Aspen.\u201d<\/p>\n

The second Aspen showing of \u201cTimeless\u201d is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Wheeler Opera House. General Admission tickets are $17 and can be purchased at aspenshowtix.com. This is the second film to be released since Warren Miller\u2019s death in January 2018.<\/p>\n

acolbert@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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