very short. I think by the time I got to the end of the bus ride I?d actually finished the book. And I thought ?I?ve got to make a film of this.? NELL SCHOFIELD: I think the fact that I was a surfer gave me a special connection to the story. I started surfing when I was 13 down at Bondi Beach. My friend and I were hanging out watching the guys go out and get all these waves, and we thought why can?t we go out and do the same thing? Because back in those days there were hardly any women surfing at Bondi, some guy from Sea Notes got wind of it and came along and interviewed us for this magazine. It?s quite ironic because underneath the photo it says, ?we?re going to be actresses?. We wanted to be famous, like a lot of young girls. I think the first thing I heard about the film being made was when I got a phone call from the casting agent saying ?would you like to come along and try out for this role? A friend told his mother, who happened to be one of the producers of the film, that they might like to trying me out because I surfed. At that point they?d already cast the other character Sue, the other main character. And she was a young girl, a child of Czechoslovakian parents called Yaranka Capelja, Jad Capelja. So I went along to the audition and I