How to pronounce “ascan” in English

It's not an invention, and I think you might have read this version in the script.But in real ASCAN training, they take them to the Canadian Rockies and just drop them off.And they're like, hey, guys, here's a compass.

At the age of 17, Alfred found himself in a lab in Paris studying under the world's greatest chemists.And it's here that he met an Italian doctor named Ascanio Sobrero who had a peculiar demonstration.Sobrero would take an ordinary looking piece of cotton and lay it on an anvil.

So can you talk about some of the message behind being able to have that second chance in this film?Yeah. Well, for me, I think part of it came from reading about what it took to become an ASCAN in real lifeand realizing that so many of the people who had made it that far had known since they were kids that this was their dream.