Elizabeth Mathis

Elizabeth Mathis is an American former actress from Detroit. Quotes My character, Pushy, I love to say that’s she’s just a girl that anybody would want to be friends with. She’s a hard worker. She’s extremely loyal to the ones that she loves. She’s just all around a really great friend in this movie to Dana and I think she’s just a fighter which is really cool. Prior to shooting I had no surfing skills. So, they were nonexistent. We were able to go through an entire boot camp process for about three weeks prior to shooting which included surf training and breathing lessons, yoga, dance, everything up the wazoo. We really had to prepare ourselves for that part of the movie. I loved the movie from the jump, just reading the script because it’s very different from the first film. The storyline was an extremely different storyline from the first film. And Pushy’s character was a local South African girl who was a diehard surfer, something that she just loved to do which is very rare in South Africa. It’s very rare, especially among black South Africans, women, too, to make it even more rare. So, even when I was living in South Africa and speaking with a lot of the young South African girls there, none of them really surfed or tapped into the beauty of the water and water sports and things like that. So, playing this character was a stretch and I loved that. That’s what I loved about it. Yeah. I mean, a lot more people…hey, whenever people can begin to see your body of work prior to meeting you I think doors will always open up just because people want to see what you can do and that’s a natural thing in the industry or business. It’s no different in acting. You just hope that opportunities continue to come and it’s just been a really great ride so far. Oh, yeah, it’s something that I always wanted to do. Well, it’s something that began to interest me in college. Yeah. I became very passionate about it and studied really hard at it before I made the leap into it. Modeling was a really great way to make that transition. Modeling allowed me to become very comfortable in my skin and very aware of myself and kind of let go of myself, I guess, in a way is a better way to put it. So, that transition was not so difficult for me. Blue Crush 2An Interview with Elizabeth Mathis;By Wilson Morales on June 8, 2011 External links Category:1983 births Category:Living people Category:Actresses from Detroit Category:Women born in the 1980s Category:African Americans