Matthew Modine played Louden Swain, a high school wrestler, in 1985's Vision Quest
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The actor, 67, shared a fun fact about one of the film's fans' favorite moments, detailing the fun in taking on the physical challenge himself
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Modine previously told PEOPLE a film like Vision Quest couldn't be made today
Matthew Modineput in some serious work while playing Louden Swain.
The actor, 67, looked back at his time as the high school wrestler at the center ofVision Questin a recent post on X.
"I’m often asked about the pegboard scene inVision Quest. That was all me," he wrote.
"No stunt doubles or safety measures. I trained for a long time and had to climb it several times to get all the angles. The 'trick' is not to over extend, so you’d be pulling up your entire body weight. You have to keep it compact. Arms and elbows tight."
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Asked if there was ever an opportunity to revisit the film for a sequel, Modine told a fan, "There’s been talk over the years. At one point they were planning a remake with Taylor Lautner. I didn’t see the point."
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Another fan asked if Modine kept anything from the from the set, he admitted, "Nope. I didn’t think to. I was young. I do have posters, press kits, soundtracks, and DVDs."
Speaking with PEOPLE about the film in Feb. 2025 in celebration of its 40th anniversary, Modine said that it tells a story "you can’t remake."
“Louden Swain in a movie today who says and does the things that he does in the film — which are all really important lessons and part of coming of age, of saying inappropriate things, of doing inappropriate things people — young people do,” Modine shared with PEOPLE. “He realizes he made a mistake in something that he said, or something that he did. And it's Linda Fiorentino [who] puts him in his place.”
While attempting to pursue his goal, Louden finds himself falling for Fiorentino’s character Carla, a woman stranded in Louden’s town after her car breaks down on her drive to San Francisco. As Louden tries to capture Carla’s attention, he occasionally loses the motivation to beat Shute — but Carla’s redirection is part of what helps him come to the film’s resolution.
“Today, the person would be canceled — the person would be chastised on social media, on text messages, and things. So I don't think that you could remake this film. I think the world has gone topsy-turvy,” Modine continued at the time. “But the good news is that the movie exists in its '80s form, and you can go back and watch it and romanticize about what it was like to be in the eighties and with all that great music and these wonderfully weird and goofy people.”
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