![]() The Short Time Time Wrestling Podcast is proudly sponsored by Flipswrestling. Japser was a high school wrestler and was an athletic trainer at Eastern Washington University when he was encouraged to audition for a role of a wrestler - he never thought it would be as iconic as it's become.Ĭheck out our previous interview with Terry Davis at And if you haven't already, head to to leave a rating and a review on iTunes. Japser talks about what he's doing now and some of the things he remembers about shooting the role. Jasper, currently a holistic medicine professional in Santa Monica, California, made a re-appearance to the wrestling world a few years back when he was highlighted at the annual Beat The Streets Battle on Broadway. This series honors the 30-year anniversary of the movie by talking to some of the notable names behind the film and the story itself. Vision Quest, originally a book by Terry Davis written in 1979, was released in theaters on February 15, 1985. On Episode 142 of the Short Time Wrestling Podcast, the second part of the three-part series remembering Vision Quest talks with Frank Jasper, the actor who played the role of Brian Shute. Subscribe to this show via: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | iHeartRadio | TuneIn | RSS | More ![]() The reason is, he wants to challenge the three time state champion, the seemingly invincible Brian Shute (Frank Jasper), who attends rival Hoover High School. Other scenes were shot at The Onion Restaurant downtown and the North Central High School gym.Podcast: Play in new window | Download | Embed Before he strives to achieve his goals of higher education, the 178 pound Louden wants to get his weight down to 168. Madonna's scene was filmed at the Big Foot Tavern on North Division Street in Spokane. Some of the locker room scenes were filmed in the boys' locker room of Shadle Park High School in northwest Spokane. Interior cafeteria scenes were filmed at Ferris High School on Spokane's South Hill. The film was shot at Rogers High School in northeast Spokane, referred to as "Thompson High School" in the film. She decides to move out and continue on to San Francisco, but not before seeing Louden's big match in which he defeats Shute in the final seconds with an over-under hip toss. Brian Busthoi, Dan 748 Ruud, Josephine Bartow 750 Rye, Janes A Salomonsdotir, Erla 898 149 Sanders, Karen N Santopolo, Frank. He and Carla finally admit their love for one another, but she realizes this is distracting him from his goals. Worse, his drastic weight loss culminates in an unhealthy situation in which he gets frequent nosebleeds due, Louden claims, to a lack of iron in his diet (which costs him a match that he should have won). Though she is older, Louden begins to fall in love with her and begins to lose sight of his goals as a wrestler. Meanwhile, his father (Ronny Cox) has taken on a boarder named Carla (Linda Fiorentino) from Trenton, New Jersey, passing through on her way to San Francisco. Louden Swain lets Brian Shute know about his intentions to wrestle him.Matthew Modine plays Louden, Jake Ryan plays Kuch, and Frank Jasper plays Shute. ![]() In his zeal to drop from 190 pounds to 168 pounds, against the wishes of his coach (Charles Hallahan) and teammates, he disrupts the team around him and creates health problems of his own. ![]() He embarks on a mission to drop two weight classes in order to challenge the toughest opponent, Brian Shute (Frank Jasper), a menacing 3-time state champion from nearby rival Hoover High School, who has never been defeated in his high school career. In this coming-of-age story, Lowden Swain (Matthew Modine) is a high school wrestler who has just turned 18 and decided that he needs to do something truly meaningful in his life.
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