Where Are They Now? Kate Bosworth and More

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‘Blue Crush’ Cast: Where Are They Now? Kate Bosworth, Matthew Davis, Mika Boorem and More

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 “Ladies First With Laura Brown” podcast.

“It was a really, really hard time, and I did not know how to handle that at all. And I also did not know how to really communicate through that very well to support systems or to my friends or family,” Bosworth continued, revealing that she misplaced “a lot of weight” on the time because of being beneath “a lot of scrutiny.”

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Despite the troublesome interval after the movie first premiered, the California native thinks a Blue Crush sequel is a good thought. “Sanoe [Lake], Michelle [Rodriguez] and I always talk about it. We would love to make it happen,” she informed Entertainment Tonight in May 2022.

“There are still a few waves that the world is still unwelcoming to women surfing them. I think it would be great to see another location in the world and bringing the girls to a wave that otherwise is male dominated,” the I-Land star added.

The sports activities film, primarily based on Susan Orlean’s 1998 Outside journal article “Life’s Swell,” follows three mates out to show that there’s a spot for girls on the planet of aggressive browsing. 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, informed IGN in August 2002 that he “initially aspired to solid solely surfers.” Although Bosworth was an actress slightly than an athlete, she didn’t disappoint.

“She was crazy. Fearless. She’s insane,” Stockwell informed the outlet of the Blue Crush star. “She went out on days where a guy would get paralyzed at the Pipeline, then she’d paddle out five minutes later. She wasn’t a diva. I don’t know what it is. She never really got hurt. I don’t think she ever quite realized the danger she got 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 incredibly misogynistic. Even shooting on the North Shore, members of our own crew were like, ‘Girls can’t surf pipe, girls shouldn’t be out there. Why don’t you do a guy surfer movie?’”

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

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Kate Bosworth

The Long Road Home alum went on to look in movies together with Win a Date With Tad Hamilton! (2004), Superman Returns (2006), 21 (2008), and Still Alice (2014). In 2019, she starred within the Netflix science fiction miniseries The I-Land.

Bosworth was married to director Michael Polish from 2013 to 2021 and is stepmother to Jasper, Polish’s daughter from a earlier marriage. She is at present in a relationship with Justin Long.

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Michelle Rodriguez

After taking part in Eden, the very best pal of Bosworth’s character, in Blue Crush, Rodriguez went on to look as Ana Lucia Cortez on Lost and star as Letty Ortiz within the Fast & Furious franchise.

Her different notable movie roles embody Chris Sanchez in S.W.A.T. (2003), Trudy Chacon in Avatar (2009), Luz in Machete (2010) and Linda in Widows (2018).

Rodriguez has spoken brazenly about her fluid sexuality. “I’ve gone both ways. I do as I please. I am too f—ing curious to sit here and not try when I can. Men are intriguing. So are chicks,” she informed Entertainment Weekly in October 2013.

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Mika Boorem

Before she performed Bosworth’s cornrow-wearing little sister, Boorem had already appeared in movies together with Jack Frost and Mighty Joe Young and earned important popularity of her efficiency in The Education of Little Tree.

After Blue Crush, the Arizona native went on to look in movies together with Sleepover (2004) and The Ward (2010). She was additionally a recurring visitor star on Dawson’s Creek in 2002 and 2003. She later starred within the 2016 horror anthology Minutes Past Midnight and the 2021 comedy Hollywood.Con.

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Sanoe Lake

The Hawaii native was a surfer previous to becoming a member of the solid of Stockwell’s 2002 movie. She has been featured in tv industrial campaigns for Target, MTV, Gap and Eddie Bauer. The former face of the model Roxy additionally penned the 2005 guide Surfer Girl, a complete information to the game.

Lake’s different movie roles embody Rain in Rolling (2007), Gina in The Darkness (2008) and Pamela in Half-Life (2008). She has been married to her husband, Michael Sterling Eaton, since 2007. The couple share two youngsters: River, born in 2010, and Sage, born in 2011.

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Matthew Davis

Davis performed Bosworth’s love curiosity, NFL quarterback Matt Tillman. Perhaps greatest identified for his function as Warner Huntington III in Legally Blonde (2001), the Utah native went on to play Adam Hillman on the ABC comedy-drama What About Brian. He began taking part in Alaric Saltzman on The Vampire Diaries in 2009 and continued the function on two spinoff sequence, The Originals and Legacies, the latter of which led to 2022.

He married actress Kiley Casciano in 2018. The pair have two daughters: Ripley, born in 2020, and Dorothy, born in 2022.