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“This is definitely the biggest thing I’ve worked on.”
- Lucky Fate
And make no mistake: Fate’s skateboarding credentials are eminently legit.
“I’ve been skateboarding as long as I can remember,” he imparts. “I think I started in elementary school, like in first grade. That was in my hometown in Boston; that’s
when our skate park was built in our little center of town. Tiny little crap skate park, but that’s kind of what lit me into the whole skateboarding world. When I went to college, I found every skate park I could find in Maine, and then moving out here which is kind of the mecca of skateboarding ... that’s been my journey for the last six or seven years, is just finding all the skate parks around here, meeting really cool skaters and just kind of getting into that scene.”
Fate asserts that his kinship with his character has helped ease his nerves as far as the pressure of carrying such a major role with so little acting experience under his belt.
“This is definitely the biggest thing I’ve worked on,” he confirms. “I mean, I’ve stepped foot on a couple bigger sets before, but this is the most intensive, longest script, most attention I’ve ever had on me in any situation, so I’m learning to cope with that. But honestly, getting on the set and getting able to skateboard, and like be asked by the art crew to tag stuff for them and use some of my spray paint background, I just feel like there’s a lot less pressure, just because I’m kind of in my element. Like, being able to get here and warm up just riding around on my skateboard on the ramps is a really nice way to start my mornings.”
It no doubt will also be of some help to Fate, acting-wise, sharing some of his camera time (albeit not on this particular day) with newly inducted AVN Hall of Fame member Tommy Pistol, who won two out of his THREE acting trophies at this year’s AVN Awards for Greenwood-directed projects.
For Grinders, Pistol underwent an extensive prosthetic makeover to become a balding, aging biker type. Greenwood shares an amusing anecdote about Pistol’s reaction to the results:
“It was funny, I said like, ‘What do you think of a Hulk Hogan type of look?’” he recounts. “I sent him the first picture, and he said, ‘I look creepy ... I like it!’”
Grinders releases in four parts on Adult Time starting with episode one on May 31, followed by a new episode each Tuesday thereafter through June 21.
The streaming platform has created a dedicated landing page for the production at grindersfilm.com.
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