![]() ![]() Brown), but dad points out that young black men have to work ten times harder than their white counterparts. Sure, he butts head with a stern father named Ronald ( Sterling K. He’s a successful athlete in a loving relationship. Shults captures Tyler’s life with a fluid camera, conveying the constant motion of youth and its boundless joy. Tyler’s sister is a sweet girl named Emily ( Taylor Russell) and he has a supportive stepmother named Catherine (Renee Elise Goldsberry) and a girlfriend named Alexis ( Alexa Demie). Shults’ camera, guided by his regular cinematographer Drew Daniels, glides through the life of a handsome, happy, successful Florida teen named Tyler ( Kelvin Harrison Jr.). "In the moment, I live day by day.“Waves” opens joyously. She has not said whether she will return to modeling. So in a way I feel that I live for both of us and I will do my best," Nemcova said. "There are lots of things which I would love to tell him, but in some way, I also feel that I lost the person closest to me. Sawyer asked Nemcova what she would say to Atlee if she could. ![]() She says the waiting was one of the hardest parts - "not knowing if Simon's still somewhere and needs help." "But slowly you have to … when the days they go by, you have to realize that he will stay in our hearts all the time for forever." "I was hoping and having a big hope," she said. "When it happened, it brought families together, it brought the countries together, it brought the whole world together for a moment," she said.Įven when she was healthy enough to do so, Nemcova had trouble leaving Thailand because she was sure that her boyfriend's body would be found. The long convalescence gave Nemcova a chance to look for meaning in the disaster. Nemcova is now walking with crutches, but she is expected to recover fully. "He said, 'It will protect you,' " she said. She was placed next to a Thai patient, who gave her a small Buddha she wears to this day. They lost their wives, they couldn't see them." And most of them, they lost their babies. "They were ready to sacrifice their lives. "In that moment, people were thinking about others, not about themselves," she said. Nemcova said she admired the rescuers because they went to work despite not knowing the fates of their own families, and because they had no idea if another wave would come in and kill them too. "He just left me some clothes and I asked him, 'Can I get your T-shirt?' And so I got his T-shirt." "One of the Thai men was so sweet because actually the water took everything, what I had on," said Nemcova. It was such a strong current, you couldn't do anything. "In that moment, the power of the water was bringing all the fallen trees, all the broken buildings and all the wood. Nemcova was swept into a current of debris. "Simon was just saying, 'Petra, Petra, what's going on?' " she said. "It was just so … surrealistic." Then the water flooded their bungalow and pulled them outside in seconds. People were running away and screaming, she said. She and Atlee were in their bungalow when the first wave hit. She recounted for Sawyer the series of events that began with her boyfriend at her side, and ended with her clinging to a palm tree for dear life for nearly eight hours. Nemcova said she still has nightmares about the experience: "Just water rolling and rolling, and when you close your eyes, just water." ![]() "He was so kind and so respectful for people. "His favorite saying was, 'The day without laughter is a day wasted,' " she said. The Czech beauty told Sawyer she thinks of Atlee daily. ![]()
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