Given the nature of filming and also the story, was there a lot of room for improv?
MM: Oh yeah. We had this great script but they were really encouraging. Everyday, the story would evolve depending on what we found the day before, so I would not know if I were going to find the monk or not. Or maybe Kat would go sleep with this guy, or maybe she was going to go salsa or hula with another guy. I didn’t know from day to day because whatever we found the next day, we would just take it to another level. There was a lot of evolution that happened because we also got to shoot it in order pretty much. TC: Did you pick up on any surfing when you were there? MM: I surfed before because I’m from Newport Beach, California. So I was put on a surfboard by a cute boyfriend in high school. I went to Hawaii myself with my girlfriend while I was in my senior year and surfed when I was there and almost didn’t come home and finish my year out but thank God I did because I got to go back. TC: What is it about the surfing and the culture that makes it so special and unique? MM: I think
