Even the sports have gotten more extreme.
They still surf and skydive, albeit with wingsuits and jet skis towing them in to the biggest waves.
Edgar Ramirez plays Bodhi and has thought deeply about Bodhis philosophy.
His methods still require FBI agent Johnny Utah (Luke Bracey) to go undercover.
The name Johnny Utah is more of a source of guilt for his character.
Does Bodhi have a different meaning for you than the original?
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I mean, Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition.
This is the thing.
Its not that complicated.
Being enlightened is just being aware.
Its just being aware of something that you werent aware before.
So when they say hes very zen, I mean, theres nothing zen about blowing up a mine.
Theres nothing zen about going to a bank and robbing the bank.
Theres nothing zen about that because its violent and zen has nothing to do with violence.
So that is something that people tend to forget.
Just because he has this philosophy, but theres nothing more dangerous than a Buddhist whos pissed off.
Look what happened in Nepal a couple years ago.
An entire royal family got killed by Buddhist monks.
In the end, these guys live by their principals and they die by their principals.
Did you share any of Bodhis philosophy?
There was a whole decade of celebration of materialism.
Actually there was no moral or ethical conflict in accumulating things, in being materially successful.
That was the goal of society.
The whole trickle down theory, lets get richer and richer because eventually it will trickle down.
The reality is that 24 years later, that proved wrong and false.
It actually proved the opposite.
Actually people got poorer and the environment got deeply impacted and hit by it.
Also we realized how impacted the environment has been.
So theres been a physical consequence of that.
So these guys, Bodhi and his friends in the film, they have a direct interaction with nature.
So theyre not removed.
They dont live as we do in cities where we go to get groceries at supermarkets.
These guys are very close to it.
From a point of view theyre radicals.
The FBI calls them eco-terrorists.
Does the course correction for such a great wrong have to be as extreme as the wrong?
Yeah, and thats what makes the film interesting.
I think thats what makes my character interesting because theres a very fine line.
Theres a very thin line between being a militant and probably being a terrorist.
That is the thing.
Are you judged by your actions or your motivations?
The reality is that the motivation might be in this case valid, understandable.
But the consequences and the actions are really extreme.
People are getting either killed or they might get killed.
Theres a line that theyre crossing.
So its a delicate balance and I think thats what makes the movie, the film dramatic.
The same thing in the first one.
Theyre robbing banks until they cross that line.
Theres a line that they cross.
Thats the drama of the film.
Its only a small part of this version, but did you wear either the Bush or Obama mask?
I was the Obama mask.
Is it a different kind of performance in a mask thats only going to be seen on video?
No, you just dont see the face.
Youre not thinking in those terms.
Youre wearing the mask.
Same thing with the goggles and all of that.
Were doing the snowboard scene, it’s possible for you to hardly recognize whos who.
No, youre really thinking in those terms.
Have you ever made a movie this international before?
We also went to different places but this remote, never.
It was the first time.
Its very difficult to make movies on this scale.
Its not only the countries that we went to and that we went around the world.
As epic as the locations were, it felt very intimate with Bodhi and Utah.
Did you have a sense of intimacy even in those epic places?
Yeah, because we were a small group of people and because we were all together as Ericson explained.
We were living in tents.
We were staying in little hostels, little cabins and cottages everywhere.
So it feels, as he said, more than a film production.
It felt more as an expedition.
Were really going around the world capturing our experiences on film.
We were very close with each other.
Its seamless when it switches from you guys to the athletes.
Did it feel seamless when they took over?
No, it was very clear.
There was no way for us to be not even an inch close to the real thing.
So in the same locations, everything.
Luke and I, we were actually one behind the other.
Had you surfed or rock climbed?
No, I learned for the film.
Im athletic because I keep myself active.
I trained more than a year for that film.
Do you look for roles that will require that kind of preparation?
Then when you finish a film, youre a different person.
I look for that.
I look to be impacted, to be transformed, changed by my roles.
Thats why I do this.
Point Breakopens in theaters on Christmas Day.
