> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.smdp.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Meet Kate Bosworth, ‘Blue Crush’ surfer girl - URL: https://www.smdp.com/meet-kate-bosworth-blue-crush-surfer-girl/ - Published: 2002-08-07T15:00:00.000Z - Updated: 2026-10-23T00:35:50.000Z - Author: Guest Author - Tags: Sports, Malibu, #archive-import *By SEAN DALY Special to the Daily Press* KO'’OLINA, HAWAII — Kate Bosworth is a sprightly five-foot-six-inch natural blonde who likes to say “hello” with a brilliant smile and “good-bye” with a hug and kiss. But don’t let her pretty face and girl-next-door charm fool you. Underneath the low-rise Frankie B. jeans and breezy off-the-shoulder white peasant top is a tough-as-nails natural athlete: a champion equestrian and competitive soccer player, who put her acceptance to Princeton University on hold and her life at risk to surf Hawaii’s most dangerous waves in the new summer thriller, “Blue Crush.” “This is a world in which you can’t wear any padding or helmet or three point seat belts,” stresses director John Stockwell. “We had great water safety people, but if Kate got caught inside a (large wave) she could very possibly be dead.” Pretty scary thought. Now consider that Bosworth, 19, had never ridden a single wave before setting her sights on the part of Anne Marie, a gutsy up-and coming surfer with dreams of winning the most hazardous long-board competition in the world. “I truly couldn’t have even imagined how difficult it was,” she laughs, relaxing safely back on shore in a beachfront hotel suite. “The first day I (learned) to surf in Malibu I was so humbled I can’t even tell you.” Then came the bumps and bruises, including one surfboard-to-the-head that left the 110 pound actress KO’d in front of a stunned cast and crew. “I had to get a CAT scan and all that,” she explains, in between sips of Hawaiian bottled water. “It turned out to be only mild bruising, but it was still really scary.” From all accounts, you might think this relative newcomer — an only child, who spent time growing up in San Francisco, Connecticut and Cohasset, Mass. — had some sort of death wish. “Not exactly,” she smiles, proudly displaying another half-inch scar on her ankle. “I just love taking chances.” Case in point: Her very first Hollywood audition, for a small role in Robert Redford's movie, “The Horse Whisperer.” “You know how they tell you to bring a head shot? Well, I was 13, and I didn't have a one,” she remembers. “So I brought in a Christmas card. I’m an only child, so it was just me sitting there, like Duh! I heard that (Redford) saw it and was like ‘what is this?’” Luckily, she got the job. Bosworth eventually moved into television, starring in last year’s short-lived teen drama, “Young Americans.” The show is never mentioned as she gazes out over the calm, blue Pacific Ocean. Today, Bosworth has more exciting things to talk about. Like her favorite football team (The Miami Dolphins), her fear of roller-coasters, and the schoolgirl crush she once had on Macaulay Culkin. “It was when I was about 10,” she blushes, “and yes, I got over it!” After days of discussing the finer points of surfing — including how to cure pruned feet and what to do when a wave knocks your swimsuit off — Bosworth jumps at the chance to point out a few things most people might not know about her: 1\. “I have two different colored eyes (brown and blue). I was born with it. My parents have the same color eyes. It’s a defect in chromosome 7\. One in eight million people have it. My pickup line should be: ‘I'm one in eight million.’” 2\. “I decided I was going to apply for a job at a tanning salon when I was 15\. The application asked for previous work experience, so I put ‘acting.’Then it said ‘list your references’so I put Robert Redford because he was the only person who had hired me!” 3\. “I love reading Maxim. It’s one of those things that’s a guilty pleasure but something I would never be in.” 4\. “My other guilty pleasure is watching shows like ‘Blind Date’ and ‘Elimidate.’ My favorite real TV show is ‘Six Feet Under.’” 5\. “My boyfriend’s nickname is ‘Broccoli.’” Bosworth won’t volunteer too many details about her romance with professional surfer Brock Little, 32, but she admits: “I have to have a guy who is very secure. A lot of surfers are secure individuals and they have a lot of style about them.” For Bosworth, this is only serious relationship number three. But she’s in no hurry. “I usually know people for a while before I go out with them,” she shares. “I’m a serious relationship kind of girl. And I’m 19\. I have many more relationships to get through.” Bosworth, who lives alone in a Los Angeles apartment, insists she doesn’t spend weekends cruising the Sunset Strip with Hollywood’s young, hipsters. “You are more likely to find me at a bowling alley or at Disneyland — my favorite place on Earth,” she says. Credit her down-to-earth demeanor to a close-knit relationship with her mom, Patti, a homemaker, and Dad Hal, an employee of Talbots department store. “He used to work for Ermenigilda Zegna,” she beams. “He has great style and that’s where I get mine from.” Bosworth defines that style as “classic and timeless.” “Everything out of my closet I could probably wear 20 years from now,” she says. “The people that I look to fashion-wise are people like Jennifer Aniston and Gwyneth Paltrow and Gwen Stefani, who have their own style and are comfortable in their own skin.” Maintaining a perfectly toned body is another story altogether. Bosworth packed on nearly 15 pounds of muscle mass for the movie by keeping active for up to 12 hours a day. “I would run on the beach in the morning, lift weights, surf for a couple of hours, and then take a walk again at night,” she reveals. Still, the sight of herself in a bikini on giant billboards all over Los Angeles took a bit of getting used to. “It’s a woman's worst nightmare,” she says, “but any discomfort I had I threw out the window the day I signed on to do the movie.” Next up for Bosworth: The drama “The Rules of Attraction,” also starring James Van Der Beek (”Dawson’s Creek”) and Shannyn Sossamon. “It’s totally twisted,” she says. “It’s all about sex, drugs and rock and roll.” Now there’s something to look forward to. (Sean Daly is a Santa Monica-based writer and president of Showtime Entertainment.) *Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on August 7, 2002.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/080702.pdf?ref=smdp.com)