Garrett Wareing Says Actors Had Bloody Shoes While Filming 'The Long Walk'

Garrett Wareing and his costars had to face brutal conditions while filming their new dystopian thriller, The Long Walk — but it was an experience he wouldn’t change for the world.

“Our shoes ended up being our saving grace. I never thought that I would become best friends with asphalt, but I will tell you, the asphalt of Manitoba, [Canada] became my best friend because that was my salvation,” Wareing, 24, exclusively told Us Weekly about facing the elements while filming. “At the end of these takes, you just sit down on the ground and you just lay there. By the end of each week, we had walked 50 miles and this just compounds itself, and you’re acting all the while.”

Warning: Spoilers below for The Long Walk.

Wareing, who portrays Stebbins in the adaptation of Stephen King’s 1979 novel,