Cold Open, A Tale of Modern Hollywood // Chapter 3. The Old Flame

Cantara Christopher
12 min readMay 27, 2022

Stage 9, Paramount Studios, summer 1981. She had never worked on a real sound stage before. This was nothing like the way they did it back home with surfing movies. Everything there was practically all shot on the beach with friends, free and easy. If the day was cloudy they still shot. Even if the waves didn’t come they improvised a scene and shot anyway.

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Cantara Christopher

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