He plays the shuttle pilot in the begining of the movie. Why was he, of all people, cast? Was he trying to launch a film carreer? Friends of with the director? Is there a story behind this?
shareidk if there's a story but he did appear in a bunch of movies, as well as directing, etc., so he prolly just got an offer to be an extra or something.
"He must've thought it was white boy day. It ain't white boy day, is it?"
according to the stories told in dogtown and zboys,
peralta and other famous skateborders suddenly had more money than ever before,were famous, hanging out with models and movie stars, were invited to basically every party.
So I guess somewhere along the line somebody offered him the role