Casting call!
There have been many famous faces of Hollywood surfing and you know them all. Jan-Michael Vincent in Big Wednesday, Patrick Swayze in Point Break, Matt Adler in North Shore and maybe there is going to be you or someone you know.
Are you a surfer who wants to act and also wants to be a famous face?
Well, Hollywood is currently looking for a young man who is supposed to be sixteen, in the show (scripted), but eighteen or older in real life. The character is an “eccentric, non-conformist” (hello, BeachGrit reader!) who surfs, of course, but doesn’t have to surf at a pro level, obviously. Also, the young man doesn’t necessarily have to be a fantastic “actor.” Many theater kids have tried to bag the gig, apparently, and they just don’t have our glorious cadence.
Lastly, the whole business is taking place on the Outer Banks. Do you know there? Are you familiar with Salt Life? Can you catch a fish with a hook?
I can’t, and I don’t look sixteen, and I can’t act and I spending all my days writing which means I now surf below adult learner level.
This is your once in a lifetime opportunity!
Interested?
Email [email protected]
Yes Chas, speaking of Jan-Michael Vincent (Matt Johnson, someone we can all almost relate to). Just a small Aloha and RIP would have been nice from B.G.
No freakin shit. What a classic California surf/Hollywood backstory on JMV just ripe for the telling.
And zero mention too BG on legendary surf guitarist Dick Dale.
aloha nui RIP
Well said. Yes, Dale also– Aloha, RIP.
Awwww yeah nah yeah nah yeah nah yeah nah yeah nah yeah nah yeah nah yeah nah yeah nah yeah nah yeah nah yeah nah yeah nah yeah it’s a bit how ya goin.
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Can’t surf and can’t act?
At least the young Syrian
Could bury a rail
Great…I’m below average here too.
Sounds like a porno
Sounds like too much toxic masculinity for me.
Chas, please send in an application on behalf of Wiggs. just use a picture of Julian Wilson (its fine, if its good enough to get you into college , its good enough for this). please make it good enough to get them interested enough to call him. then record the call and use at as a podcast. should be a banger. I really need to find another word that means “enough”
‘Sufficient’ ?
I’ve actually got a good idea for a comedic ”show” of sorts about Surfers. Unfortunately, I’m more of an ideas man (lazy) so if anyone has the talent, drive or money sing out..
kiwi version of 90’s “paradise beach”?
Grommet ahahahahha.
That would be a tragi-comedy.
A bunch of err, non-land-owning horticulturalists and a town full of solo mothers.
Three pubs, a dole office and an eftpos machine.
Blindfold yourself and throw a dart at the map of NZ. It’s set there.
How’d I do Negs ? Close ?
Hello Michael Ciaramella…
gold.
MC could submit the Christian Fletcher/MC tape as an audition tape.
https://beachgrit.com/2017/…
Actually, Chas/Derek own the publishing on that. Do the right thing*. Submit it yourself. He’s that authentic for the role.
*not the movie
What about a 38 year old*, who’s 16 year old mind is intact, and is only able to be a 38 year old bc he’s developed a second mind, that spends 24/7 trying to control the 16 year old mind?
*I still have hair, I surf well, and I’m not fat (that was mainly a jab at all the older-than-me-farts on BG).
I must of missed the part where it said “must not be fat”, next you are going to tell me the applicant “must have a full head of hair”. I guess this means I need to go crawling back to my boss on Monday with some half arsed story about the “stick your job up your fat hairy arse ya loser”message being meant for someone else.
LOL. Seriously though, the BG comments are loaded with movie scene ideas.
is that calculated using the “cote equation”?
Is this your movie Chas?
Has ‘The Tenth Sock’ got industry backing at last?
Lyrics in the pipeline for you.
Isn’t Keanu Asing available?
Haha, perfect
I’ll play the 38 year old lowlife bartender that’s banging the kid’s mom
I’ll play the high society hedge fund manager banging his dad
Haha, BG should do a short video, snl length, with actual commentators as actors. That would be EPIC.
This could actually happen. Grit Beach?
Seriously; it could definitely go viral (can’t believe I said that; “like tons of likes and stuff” I said that with a dumb USC student accent). “Grit Beach, where poor, crotchety, loser-like commentators play themselves.” Seriously though, even listening to some commentators brain storm concepts/ideas/etc. would be hilarious. Fuck, I wish I had some money, I’d definitely drop everything to do this; would be epic. Move over Kardashian dumbasses, Grit Beach is coming (or whatever it ends up being called). I see viral videos, national interviews, movie deal, broadway plays, spin-off shows like “looking for the real wigs”; what does Karl Von eat? Etc. The possibilities are endless.
A small clip starring
Dez n Jen
be better
I’ll bang the toaster!
Won’t take much acting
Or I’ll just play the drunk at the bar who gets beat up by the stars mentor.
Jack Robbo’s dad has already been cast.
I’d like to read for the role of crusty old local guy who won’t give the new kid an even break. I treat him like shit and even shove him around a little bit. I could be the love interests dad or something. I try to scare him off from dating my daughter. But he won’t go away. Through guts, determination, good looks, and above average surfing ability he finally wins me over. and I finally approve of him raw dogging my daughter.
A montage!
Forgive me old kook but this strikes me as very 80s-tv derivate. In a 2019 tv show, the crusty old local guy is NOT WHO HE SEEMS. Layers of unguessable motives flicker across his features. Eventually he is unmasked as Jim Balanchine, little known once-sister-but-now-brother of George the former and late lamented NY dance supremo. Jim transitioned from womanhood many years ago but now yearns to bear a child even though he is 78 years old. Instead he drugs the 16 year old boy and keeps him downstairs and pretends they’re related.
Keep your weekend plans to yourself, Carroll.
True journalist
Don’t forget the gay love interest, lest you be lynched by the LGBTIQRFTLOL crowd
There’s no love in this script. It’s ALL despair, self loathing, and eight foot Freak Peaks.
Chris Coté winds up dead, wrapped in plastic washed up on the shore of BSR? The shows title is ‘Freak Peaks’.
They sure do have some good coffee in Freak Peaks
Of fuck haha. Raw doggin killed me.
Sign me up. I’ve been waiting for this opportunity since I was on The OC
*clears throat*
“Back off warchild, seriously.”
“Back OFF warchild, seriously.”
“Back off warchild, SEEERRRRIIIOOOUSSSLLLYY!”
Nailed it.
Well…
Maybe I can suggest a young, humble, sustainable, and momentarily sockless, bald guy?
Momentarily sockless, not bald ok?
He surfs very well and can act!
I mean … he surfs very well…
I’m a 16-year-old boy on Facebook, does that count?
Facebook is counting on it.
Wow. In one 5 word phrase of a sentence, you just ruined WPS’s trips to the shed forever.
#sorrynotsorry
or did she? I mean he.
Have you been enlisted into the ranks of Chris Hansen and Perverted Justice’s predator catchers?
You DO know that Hansen guy got caught for soliciting a minor right?!
In my best JOB voice, “WHAAAAAT!?”