On Location peels back the curtain on some of your favorite films, television shows, and more. This time, we take a look at Apex. Charlize Theron’s new movie Apex is a story of survival. So it’s fitting that the film’s director, Baltasar Kormákur, brought the production to the depths of the Australian wilderness, primarily using real locations to incite the action. It’s something the Icelandic filmmaker has done on several past movies, including Everest . “I love that part of filming in nature is that you can only control so much,” Kormákur says. “The fight with nature also starts to make it more interesting, rather than fully controlling everything. I tend to use nature first before we go on to any set. Because then the actor comes informed about what the real challenges are and they can replicate that.” In Apex , Theron plays Sasha, a rock climber dealing with the horrifying loss of her partner (Eric Bana).…