- I was on Tinder and I had a horrible bio.
I can't even remember but I remember reading it to
a girlfriend.
She's like, you can't write that.
I don't know what I would put.
You might remember me from Blue Water High?
Wet emoji, surfer guy, eggplant, dancing girl.
(upbeat music)
Hi I'm Adam Saunders, otherwise known as Heath
from Blue Water High.
Considering it's been 14 years since I've been
on Blue Water High.
I feel like I've aged a lot.
I grew up out West quite far away from the beach
so I never had learned to surf before.
Which I found out a lot of the cast members lied.
Like they asked, can you surf?
And I said, no, I can't surf.
And when we're getting into our surf training,
everybody's like, shit, I can't surf.
I'm like, yeah, I can't there's no problem.
And they're like, we all said we could surf.
What!
(girl laughs)
The extent of our surfing was kind of like,
holding the board, putting the leg rope on.
Walking out, maybe a bit of a paddle, turn around
paddle back in, take rashie off give it to body double
and they would go and do the amazing surfing that you see.
To land the role of health, I guess just a straightforward
kind of procedure.
Although, they weren't actually seeing me for that role.
They just wanted me to come in and audition.
I think Heath was, his character profile
was blonde-haired blue-eyed.
They kind of wanted some dready looking guy.
And this brown boy rocks in
and so I just did the scenes and I think I got asked
for a callback.
And yeah, managed to get the job.
Oh, what did I used to do on set?
I know I just like giving people frights.
Like I love that little moment when you can jump out
and scare somebody and you see the blood drain
from their face.
I don't know if that's evil for saying.
I just, I really get a kick out of that.
If I didn't play Heath, I would probably like to play
mmm, Edge.
Because maybe that's like the second coolest character.
(laughs) I don't know.
Matt's character is just like the science guy,
kind of boring.
My favorite that's easy Foy,
he was my best mate on the show.
He was the best to shoot with.
Ooo, the worst to film with.
I'm gonna have to say Sophie, who played Fly.
Only because she was so bloody sweet
and if she did anything wrong, she's always apologizing.
She'd apologize for nothing
and then you'd say, stop apologizing
and she'd apologize for apologizing.
It's like, ehh, you just wanted to throw. (laughs)
There are a couple of moments that standout.
I'd say number one would be my near death experience
in a boat accident.
So that was where Chris and I were trying to land a boat
up on the sand.
It was one of those lifesaver boats,
you have to kind of speed up and crash onto the sand
and we had a stunt coordinator lying in the front
of the boat.
But he was a really large guy.
So they asked him to get out of the boat.
Now, the boat is 100 kilos lighter in the nose
and as we're flying towards the sand the nose kinda kicks up
and so I kind of stand so I can see over the edge
of the boat and the throttle slips out of my hand.
The throttle's broken.
So instead of it recoiling and going back to a stop,
it just kind of kicks off high speed.
We lose control of the boat,
all we can do is kind of hold on for dear life
and we kind of miss the sand,
ended up hitting the concrete ramp.
The camera crew had to scatter everywhere
and cast had to dive left and right.
And I was never allowed to drive a boat again
for the series.
That's probably the one moment that stands out
and still kinda I got to sleep like,
why couldn't I just hold on to the throttle.
(deep voice) Why couldn't I just hold on to the throttle.
So the producers kind of shot themselves in the foot
when they put the show together.
It was a pitch that was just off the top of their heads
I think they had pitched a couple of shows
and they had fallen flat and they had a little moment
where they just kind of came up with this show
on the spot and it was like they'd been watching
Australian Idol and all these shows where people were
living together and competing.
And they thought, what about a show where kids live
in a house.
They compete and at the end of the year,
one of them wins a spot on the world tour and off they go.
And not realizing that it was successful
and people wanted a second series,
the format didn't allows for the characters to remain.
So the second series was a whole new cast
and the same with the third.
I went back at the start of of the second season
for a couple of episodes as the house cleaner. (laughs)
Which is a massive downgrade when I look at it now.
It's like, eh, let's just bring this guy back into vacuum.
I think I had some comedic vacuum moments.
They kept Fly on, so I think they wanted to try to ease
the audience in.
Like, here's the old guys for a little bit
but then kind of get them on to the new cast.
Which I'm just gonna call it,
they're not as good as the OG.
(hip-hop horn blasting)
No, I was never aware that Heath
would become thirst trap status.
Is that how you say that?
I don't even know what that means, I'm too old.
I my mind he was just this skinny little runt
with too much confidence.
So no, I did not think that 15-year-olds
would be getting hot and heavy for Heath.
(laughs) I feel like people get naked on the Gram
like a lot these days.
I feel like my half-nakedness, like my top part naked is
very sporadic.
I think it's too much.
We never expected Blue Water High to become part
of people's upbringing.
It was kind of like a job, got the show,
went and shot for six months and that was it.
And I guess because I was older and out of school
I didn't really know anybody that was watching
the show so I didn't really know if it was being watched
or what the deal was.
And I guess not only until kind of later years
where people, they're kinda coming up saying,
hey, I saw that show
or hey, you were the guy from that thing back in the day.
So yeah, it's kinda cool.