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6 MIDWEEK MAY 26, 2021
L ights, camera, action! As actor Kavan Smith got ready to film a scene for Hallmark Channel’s You Had Me at Aloha (which airs June 5), he was left hang- ing for an unscripted real-life
Brian Keaulana
action scene.
“They had me tied up to the
Quick to react, the film’s stunt coordinator Brian Keau- lana made sure Smith was safe before he and the other stuntmen on set went to the rescue.
“Then, (Brian) came back and was very humble. He just kind of smiled ... and went right on with what we were doing. And as we start shoot- ing, I have to stare at the cam- era and scream (my first line) ‘Who’s ready to jump off the cliff?”
ing and we’ re performing rescues and they stop every- thing,” Keaulana shares, not- ing the time he was holding Jennifer Lawrence during filming of The Hunger Games and five guys got sucked out to sea on the North Shore. Or when they were filming Blue Crush at Pipeline and from the corner of his eye, he saw two guys running toward a person
who was knocked out with their board tombstoning in the water.
edge of the cliff (at Spitting Cave in Portlock) for safety,” recalls Smith. “We were ba- sically rigged up and ready to do our stunt, per se, doing our thing, and there were a bunch of tourists just across from us. I remember the stunt guys saying ... they’re going to get themselves in trouble, and almost on cue, this one
“(He said to me), ‘Are you OK tied up to the cliff for a while? We’re all first respond- ers and need to take care of this,’” remembers Smith. “Then everybody told me who Brian is, and I was like, wow.
The rescue at Portlock, which took place in March, in- cluded Keaulana’s son, Chad (also a stuntman), and veteran stunt riggers Pat Chong Tim and Chris Putt.
“I ran, jumped in, put my fins on and got to the guy pret- ty quick,” shares Keaulana. “We got a lot stories.
young man facing away from the ocean slipped and started falling backwards like a Wile E. Coyote cartoon.”
get a helicopter in ... It was really kind of wild. To be in Hawai‘i shooting a show and having our stunt department, led by a Hawaiian legend, go and save the day ... and while this happened, a pod of about 100 dolphins go by.
team effort. He lists support from Hawaiian Water Patrol, city and county lifeguards and paramedics, as well as the Big Wave Risk Assessment Group and the many surfers (or surf responders, as he calls them) who have gone through the comprehensive high-surf risk management and open-ocean first-responder training.
“The guy couldn’t get up on his own, so they had to
Keaulana is often credit- ed for revolutionizing ocean safety, however, he calls it a
“I told my son to be ready ’cause ... there have been so many times when we’re film-
“But it’s not just me, it’s the process, the team and the resources we have.”
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