I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD be a pro surfer, let alone have a movie made about me,” says Hout Bay’s Frank Solomon. That movie, Let’s Be Frank, took award-winning director Peter Hamblin three years to make, and it’s on selected screens right now. According to Solomon, one of the highlights of the “fictional take” on his life is a fight scene modelled on a bare-knuckle boxing bout. “Shooting that scene was surreal,” Solomon recalls. “We did it in London, and there were 20 real-deal boxers watching.”
Six months before that shoot, Solomon and Hamblin were reviewing some other material they’d shot and Solomon didn’t like what he saw. “I thought, Wow, I’m sure I can look better than that. Sounds arrogant, maybe, but I knew the fight scene was coming…
