'Dogtown' Star Tastes Pain, Passion of Skateboarding

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For those enchanted by the beauty of skateboarding, actor Emile Hirsch has a warning: "It's so dangerous, too. Falling is no joke. Falling hurts so much."

Mr. Hirsch tasted the pain firsthand while shooting Lords of Dogtown, which shows how a group of teenagers in Venice, Calif., in the mid-1970s unintentionally launched the revolution that became modern skateboarding by conquering the vertical slopes of the area's drought-emptied swimming pools.

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'Dogtown' Star Tastes Pain, Passion of Skateboarding

The film is a narrative retelling of the highly lauded 2002 documentary Dogtown and Z-Boys.

"I really loved the documentary," says Mr. Hirsch, 20. "I thought it w...

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