NATCHEZ — In a single moment on the set of the new film “Deepwater Horizon” a Jena woman’s personal tragedy hit home.

Roshto-Deason’s husband, Shane Roshto, along with 10 other men, died during the offshore explosion and fire aboard the drilling rig six years ago. Shane Roshto was portrayed in the film by actor Henry Frost.

“It was like I ran into a brick wall at that point,” Natalie Roshto-Deason said, referring to the moment when she saw the actors on the set in costume. “To see Henry walking down to us — that’s all I had wished for six years ago, to see Shane coming down in one of those red jump suits.”

Today, “Deepwater Horizon,” is scheduled for nationwide release. The film, directed by Peter Berg and starring Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell and Kate Hudson, premiered on Sept. 19 in New Orleans.

Roshto-Deason, originally from Liberty, Courtney Kemp-Robertson of Jonesville and Becky Wheeler of Monterey attended the event.

Kemp-Robertson’s husband Roy Wyatt Kemp, 27, was one of the men killed. Wheeler’s husband, Wyman Wheeler, was severely injured and one of the last off the rig.

All three said they were happy the movie honored the 11 killed. Kemp-Robertson said she was disappointed the audience did not get a chance to really know the 11, but she said she understood a Hollywood film needed to center on a single character.

“Overall, I guess people would view it as a good movie,” Kemp-Robertson said. “It is very intense. Even if you don’t know a thing about the oil field, you will get the sense of the intense and horrifying experiences those men went through.”

Having had a movie center on a tragedy in her life, Roshto-Deason said she now has a different perspective to movies based on true events.

“All I want people to know is, when they go into this movie and watch this movie, to remember that there are 11 families that have children that lost people that day,” she said. “Just remember the 11 lives affected by this. It is an honor, but at the same time has caused a lot of different emotions for us.”

Wheeler, who said her husband did not want to relive the experience and watch the movie, said the film was good but the script fabricated some events.

“I guess I’m OK with the movie, but I’m still a little upset about some of the parts I know were not true,” she said. “It was overall a good movie.”

Kemp-Robertson said Mike Williams’ role during the tragedy was not as front and center in real life as Wahlberg’s character is during the movie.

Other discrepancies exist such as when Roshto-Deason first learned about the rig explosion.

In the film, she is on the other end of the phone when Kate Hudson’s character calls her in the middle of the night.

“I actually found out around 7 the next morning from an unrelated source that the rig was on fire,” she said.

Roshto-Deason and Kemp-Robertson have seen the movie twice, first in Kenner, La., for a private screening in August and then at the premiere.

During the screening, Roshto-Deason said she walked out because the explosion scene was too much to handle. To hear the sounds of the hissing fire and the explosion brought too much reality.

“As Shane’s wife, and after losing him, over the last several years I have allowed myself to believe he died peacefully when that was probably not the reality,” Roshto-Deason said. “I tried not to think about that moment, I tried to think about him being in Heaven, a better place than we are.”

Kemp-Robertson also had a difficult time watching the movie for the first time. She said the second viewing was not any easier, but she made a concentrated effort to watch it.

“I was so emotional over it the first time I missed things,” she said. “I wanted to get more of the details of the movie the second time around.”

During the premiere, it also helped they had family with them, including their husbands Dustin Robertson and Slade Deason.

“He has been overwhelmingly supportive, and I am so appreciative,” Kemp-Robertson said. “I wouldn’t be able to go through this without him.”

Kemp-Robertson said when her girls get old enough, she may watch the film with them.

“My oldest daughter doesn’t even want to watch the trailer,” she said. “I offered to watch it with her because I didn’t want her to see it somewhere else and have questions and me not be there to answer it. She doesn’t even want to do that.

“She’s a lot like her daddy.”

Shane Roshto’s son was 3 when his father died, and Roshto-Deason said the boy has not seen the trailer. But he does know about it, unfortunately, thanks to children talking about it at school, she said.

“He doesn’t understand why he can’t see it,” Roshto-Deason said. “He just thinks he would be watching a movie about his daddy.

“That just reiterates what this movie has brought up for a lot of us.”

Wheeler, whose children are 16 and 14 and did see the movie and do not want to see it again, said she wished she would have known about the movie before it was already in production.

“You mean to tell me my husband is going to be a character in a movie and nobody said a word?” Wheeler said. “After the director called me and talked for an hour about the intentions of the movie, I felt a little bit better.”

Kemp-Robertson, who originally told Wheeler about the movie, said she found out scrolling through Facebook.

“I think they tried to make up for it with the premiere and the screening,” she said. “And they did invite us to the set.

“I do appreciate all of that, I just wish I would have found out a little differently.”

Wheeler, Roshto-Deason and Kemp-Robertson all said the actors portraying their husbands attempted to get to know the men,

“I think (actor Michael Howell) did a good job getting his mannerisms down,” Kemp Robertson said. “He was so very nice about it and wanting to get to know my husband. I feel very humbled by the fact he took the time to get to know him very well.”