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National Geographic has since confirmed — in interviews and production notes, not clearly in the film itself — that the voices in Endurance were created using AI voice recreation.
Shackleton, Frank Worsley, and Tom Crean made that final crossing together, exhausted, close to collapse, and long past anything the body should’ve tolerated. Yet afterwards, all three men admitted something quietly, almost shyly: They felt a fourth presence with them.
Halfway through, something extraordinary happened. Using modern technology, I could access the real voice of Frank Worsley, captain of the Endurance. Not AI, not an actor—his actual recordings.
