Kelly Slater
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
There's only so much they could do back then.
And then there's the beach scene where, you know, there's everyone's in the water.
They're screaming and running out, and you're hoping your kid's not in there still.
So it's just like it plays on that ultimate fear.
Oh, they did a great job.
I don't know if this is true or not, but I heard, as a kid, I heard that the story was kind of based on the shark that had attacked a couple people, or they think the shark had attacked a couple people.
Same one.
Up in Montauk or somewhere up there.
When I was like 13 or 14, I went in this bar or restaurant or whatever in Montauk, and they had caught this shark.
And it wasn't the biggest shark in the world, but they think this one had attacked a couple of people or whatever.
And they had the head of it mounted in this restaurant.
Oh, wow.
And that was a story I was told as a kid.
But between then and now, maybe my story has changed.
A little bit of neurodegenerative memory or something like that.