While Untamed is set in California, production took place much farther north — in the wilderness of British Columbia, per the Los Angeles Times. Co-showrunner Elle Smith credited Bana’s passion for the outdoors with helping the cast and crew push through the challenging shoot.

In the perennial quest to find a fresh twist on the murder mystery genre, Netflix’s “Untamed” (out July 17) focuses on an impressively obscure type of cop: a federal investigator for the National Parks Service.

The actor stars alongside Sam Neill and Rosemarie DeWitt as a prickly investigator in a series set in the national park, where the beautiful wilderness plays host to ugly crimes.