The Sydney Morning Herald have reported today that we WILL get to see Sam surfing in the movie Drift, which is due to start principal photography in July in the Margaret River region of WA, though most of the surfing scenes will be shot during April and May to coincide with pro surfing events.
This will give some of the best surfers in the state a chance to appear in the movie as body doubles for Sam Worthington and Myles Pollard. They’ll be riding the really big waves off Margaret River that can be over 15 feet as, naturally, they prefer to play it safe with their actors, though both of them are planning to do a lot of their own stunts as they are both experienced surfers in their own rights.
Talking about Sam in particular, Producer Tim Duffy said:
“His role requires him to be in the water quite a bit,” Duffy said.
“So he will be in a lot of the action water scenes. He has already spent his whole life in the water…he is a West Australian surfer so he is pretty much prepared better than most of the actors.”
The $11 million movie tells the story of two brothers who start a small backyard surfboard business in the early seventies and features action sequences involving huge waves.
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