![]() "Two other guys had tried out for the part but didn't work out. Matthew Modin, who played Louden Swain, and Frank Jasper, who played Brian Shute, talk at a Beat the Streets event (Photo/Larry Slater)Jasper was then invited back to read for the "Vision Quest" producers, Jon Peters and Peter Guber. "The only thing they asked me to change was - get rid of my moustache." "They said that I looked to be about the same age as Matthew and Linda," Jasper continued. She grabbed the script out of my hands, saying, 'Do the lines.' I delivered the lines, then Harold said, 'Let's see you wrestle.' Luckily I had just participated in a wrestling competition, so I got through the practice demonstration." "She then took me to meet the director, Harold Becker. She handed me some lines from a script, asked me to read them," said Jasper. I wasn't expecting to have to deliver any lines." I went to where they were filming the movie, with the idea that I would simply play a wrestler. At the time I was a bodybuilder, and had bulked up to about 215 pounds." Said they were looking for a six-foot tall guy to wrestle in the movie. "A guy on the team was working as an extra on this movie about a high school wrestler being filmed in Washington (State). "For three months I served as a training partner for a wrestler at 190 pounds," said Jasper. I practiced indoors, and got a scholarship at North Idaho College."Īfter high school, Jasper took a detour from his educational career, working as an ironworker in the Tri-Cities area of Washington State for four years before enrolling at Eastern Washington University, where, as a student in the pre-med athletic training program, served as athletic trainer for the school's wrestling team. "I also played tennis my last two years of high school. Wrestling wasn't the only sport for Jasper. By my senior year, I was wrestling at 155." ![]() ![]() "I started off at 112 (pounds) as a freshman in high school, JV," Jasper told InterMat. Yes, the guy who played Shute wrestled for real. Jasper recently submitted to an interview with InterMat to talk about his life before "Vision Quest", what it was like filming the iconic movie, what he's been doing in the years since, and how he still gets a reaction from fans who still have passionate feelings about the film. However, for most in the wrestling community, the actor to remember is Frank Jasper, the guy who played Shute. Brian Shute gets ready to wrestle"Vision Quest" helped launch a number of careers, including Matthew Modine (as Swain), Linda Fiorentino (as Carla, the "older" woman who comes to live with Louden and his dad), Michael Schoeffling and Forest Whitaker as Kuch and Balldozer, respectively (Swain's high school teammates), and the one and only Madonna, who plays a bar singer in her first major film role. ![]()
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