"I said, Who the heck are you?' she says via Zoom. 'Cause I knew all the bus drivers from field trips. He's like, I'm Kevin McKay.' I said, You'd better be good!' The pair were setting off on a terrifying, five-hour journey with nearly two dozen elementary school students as the Camp fire engulfed Paradise, California, in 2018. It was the start of a beautiful friendship."
"Greengrass known for Bloody Sunday, United 93, Captain Phillips and the Jason Bourne franchise says in production notes: It's a world far removed from Los Angeles, blue-collar, with its own culture and rhythm. From the first moment you see him [McConaughey] as Kevin, you believe he's that bus driver whose life hasn't gone as he hoped, and who finds in this crisis a chance for redemption."
"Back then McKay could feel the American dream slipping away. His divorce had led to a custody battle. He had recently lost his father to cancer and moved his mother, who had stage 4 melanoma and was barely able to walk, into his home. In April he had quit his job running a Walgreens pharmacy store so he could put himself back through college and took a job as a bus driver to make ends meet."
Schoolteacher Mary Ludwig met bus driver Kevin McKay before the Camp Fire evacuation and placed trust in him. McKay drove a five-hour journey with nearly two dozen elementary students as the Camp Fire engulfed Paradise, California, in 2018. The experience forged a lifelong friendship between Ludwig and McKay. The Lost Bus, directed by Paul Greengrass and streaming on Apple TV+, dramatizes the evacuation with Matthew McConaughey as McKay and America Ferrera as Ludwig. Greengrass frames McKay as a blue-collar man seeking redemption amid crisis. McKay had faced divorce, a custody battle, his father's death, and was caring for a mother with stage 4 melanoma while working as a bus driver.
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