Tia Carrere learned to do more than act for her first film role.
The Hawaiian native, despite a lifetime on the islands, "never surfed, and I couldn't do the hula," she said in Sunday's Parade magazine. "I learned while making the movie."The movie was the obscure 1983 picture "Aloha Summer."
Since then, of course, the 28-year-old actress has moved on to bigger and better-grossing films: She played the love interest in both "Wayne's World" movies and a villain in Arnold Schwarzenegger's "True Lies."