Sampras and Sawa Talk About "Extreme Ops"

December 25 2002

Devon: I play Will in the movie and I'm the assistant director who's played by the director (?) and we had to go off and find extreme people to make this commercial and of course our commercial isn't complete without our money person who is...Bridgette!

Bridgette Sampras (laughs): My character is somebody who is an Olympic Medalist Gold Skier who they bring into the commercial for sort of the face that America knows because she is —

Devon (interrupts)

Sampras: a known Olympic Skier. For her, the thing is, she's sort of been in this competition mode/thing her whole life. She's looking at is as 'Wow, I can finally do something that I get to do, I get to do something different out there.' But it's a bigger challenge because she gets there and realizes that she is on the snow and completely outta her elements and she doesn't fit in with these extreme people which kind of takes her awhile to find her place. But in the end - she does! She learns a lot from everybody, sorta like this whole learning life experience for her at the same time.

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