The world's biggest star waxes on about, "...your bronze skin and bikinis and baby oil …”
Nothing gives a municipality a shot of pride like a Hollywood production coming into town. Nothing gives surfing a bigger smile than being recognized by someone, anyone, outside of surfing. And so when Dwayne “The Rock” Johnston took his HBO show Ballers to Huntington Beach in order to film an episode about surfing than SUPER WOW!
WOOOOOOW!
WOW!
Let’s read the Orange County Register.
The pro wrestler-turned-movie-star was hanging out in Surf City all day Wednesday, Jan. 24, shooting a surf scene for the hit HBO show “Ballers,” in which he stars as a retired football superstar trying to reinvent himself as a financial manager for current players in Miami.
The filming created a buzz in the town south of Hollywood, though irked some locals who weren’t able to catch waves on the south side of the pier.
But having a major TV production with the likes of the Rock in town helps keep Huntington Beach in the spotlight and generates a chunk of revenue that goes back to the city, say those who helped bring the production to the city.
Johnson talked about the “hundreds and hundreds of extras” who were shooting for the Season 4 episode during the big surf tournament scene on the beach. Among the extras were pro surfer Teddy Navarro, a regular at the Huntington Beach Pier, and Hawaiian pro surfer Kalani Robb. Photos from the filming showed the two surfers in jerseys among the cast.
How excited is Kalani Robb whenever anyone is putting surf in their advertisement/movie/show? Now is a perfect time to re-read Derek Rielly’s classic Kalani Robb is the Happy Hawaiian Waiter!
This also very much reminds me when the Christian rock n roll band Petra came to Coos Bay, Oregon when I was 11 years old to film the mini-movie music video Beyond Belief. My father was cast as the “track coach” and for one brief moment I knew how Drew Barrymore felt.
Kalani Robb. Is there anything he can’t do.
This is out of control! Please make it stop.
thanks for this article. gone are the days of me wondering if the rock likes huntington beach.
More Kalani Robb interviews please!
Huntington Beach, officially known as Surf City, has also filed the appropriate paperwork to be known as the Birthplace of Rock. Memphis TN has joined up with Santa Cruz to call bullshit.
Everyone knows Wok n roll comes from China 🇨🇳
Who are the people upset about being displaced from the south side of the pier? Did the production take all 12 miles of closeouts between HB and Newport? I hate when another great day of surf in HB is ruined!
Don’t get dem white folks at HB all angry like . Might go 86 style and White Riot all the way to the Ocean Pacific which funnily enough means peaceful .
Do I need a reason to hate the Rock? The person that is.
Like someone who had ET in their closet ?That Drew Barrymore.
His finger was shiny wasn’t it.
Absolutely glowing