Words by Noel Ceballos
Photographs by Richard Ramos
72 GQ.CO.ZA OCTOBER 2017
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lexandra Daddario laughs when we ask her if she had any kind of emotional connection to
Baywatch, that monument of ‘90s TV kitsch, before participating in the new (and irreverent)
version that hit cinemas in June. ‘What’s strange is that I knew all about it but I never
watched a single episode. So in some way I was an expert even before doing this movie.’
These days remembering David Hasselhoff’s famous series always comes with a smile, something
the movie plays with deliberately: ‘I think its iconography is so universal that it is almost impossible
for anyone not to know it. I watched some episodes in preparation for this role, and I can say that we
got the tone we were looking for spot on.’ That tone is somewhere between nostalgic celebration andWill super sexy
Baywatch
lifeguard
Alexandra
Daddario rescue
you this summer?
Probably not,
but dreaming
is for free