Louganis also produced a video diary called Looking To the Light, which picked up where Breaking the Surface left off. This is about him coming out as an HIV-positive gay man.Īs a follow-up to the success of the book, Canadian television and film director Steven Hilliard Stern directed Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story in 1997, starring Mario Lopez as Louganis, with Louganis also appearing in certain scenes of the television film and as narrator. After a notorious diving injury during those games, Louganis went on to win two.
Mario Lopez stars as Louganis, an adopted child who went through a difficult adolescence, only to emerge as a world-class diver in the 1988 Olympics. Louganis chronicles his winning of back-to-back double gold medals at the 1984 Summer Olympics and 1988 Summer Olympics, and his self-doubt and lack of confidence that held him back personally and professionally because of concealing his sexual orientation as a gay athlete. The real-life story of Olympic diver Greg Louganis is chronicled in this made-for-television drama. The book spent five weeks at number one on the New York Times Best Seller list. Breaking the Surface: The Greg Louganis Story Mario Lopez (Actor), Michael Murphy (Actor), Steven Hilliard Stern (Director) Rated: Unrated Format: DVD 152 ratings IMDb 6.2/10.0 -40 1199 List Price: 19.95 Get Fast, Free Shipping with Amazon Prime FREE Returns Prime Video 2.99 9.99 DVD 11.99 VHS Tape 10.99 DVD Decem1 11. Breaking the Surface is a best-selling book by Greg Louganis, co-written with Eric Marcus published in 1996.
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