The place Are They Now? Kate Bosworth and Extra

A wave of nostalgia! The beloved surfer lady flick Blue Crush hit theaters on August 16, 2002, marking Kate Bosworth’s first main function.

“It was so intense and overwhelming,” the actress and mannequin mentioned of her sudden rise to fame throughout a June 2021 look on the “Women First With Laura Brown” podcast.

“It was a really, really hard time, and I didn’t know the best way to deal with that in any respect. And I additionally didn’t know the best way to actually talk by that very nicely to help methods or to my mates or household,” Bosworth continued, revealing that she misplaced “numerous weight” on the time resulting from being beneath “numerous scrutiny.”

Regardless of the tough interval after the movie first premiered, the California native thinks a Blue Crush sequel is a good concept. “Sanoe [Lake], Michelle [Rodriguez] and I all the time discuss it. We might like to make it occur,” she instructed Leisure Tonight in Might 2022.

“There are nonetheless a number of waves that the world remains to be unwelcoming to girls browsing them. I believe it will be nice to see one other location on the earth and bringing the ladies to a wave that in any other case is male dominated,” the I-Land star added.

The sports activities film, primarily based on Susan Orlean’s 1998 Outdoors journal article “Life’s Swell,” follows three mates out to show that there’s a spot for girls within the world of competitive surfing. Shot in Oahu, Hawaii, the movie featured cameos from actual life professional surfers together with Megan Abubo, Rochelle Ballard, Layne Benchley, Keala Kennelly and Kate Skarratt.

The director, John Stockwell, instructed IGN in August 2002 that he “initially aspired to forged solely surfers.” Though Bosworth was an actress rather than an athlete, she didn’t disappoint.

“She was loopy. Fearless. She’s insane,” Stockwell instructed the outlet of the Blue Crush star. “She went out on days the place a man would get paralyzed on the Pipeline, then she’d paddle out 5 minutes later. She wasn’t a diva. I don’t know what it’s. She by no means actually received damage. I don’t assume she ever fairly realized the hazard she received herself into.”

The Top Gun actor added that he needed to make a film about feminine surfers to counter the sexism he’d noticed within the sport. “It’s extremely misogynistic. Even taking pictures on the North Shore, members of our personal crew have been like, ‘Women can’t surf pipe, ladies shouldn’t be on the market. Why don’t you do a man surfer film?’”

Scroll by to see what Bosworth and her Blue Crush costars are doing now, 20 years after their characters proved the boys flawed: