Mike Opalek was on the original Senate team, and has performed stunts in such 90s classics as Airborne, Brink, Double Dragon, and Batman and Robin.
Yes, Mike was an Ice Thug for Mr. Freeze in the worst Batman movie ever made.
Ice thug for life, circa 1996.
And he was one of the Preps in Airborne and on Team X-Blades in Brink, making him the embodiment of evil in rollerblading cinematic history. But we still love him.
Mike, far right, on Devil’s Backbone, circa 1993.
Mike and Matt Andrews on Team X-Blades, circa 1997 or 1998
From his front porch in Salt Lake City, Mike talks about rollerblading in the movie industry, being a blade coach, and, of course, making whiskey and beer. We end by hashing out possible plot points in the script for Airborne II and whether or not it could ever get made.
(For more on Airborne, check out Blade or Die’s 20-year anniversary retrospective.)
The alternate title to this podcast would have been “Ice Thug Life with Mike Opalek,” but we’re better than that.
Follow Mike on Instagram. He’s @opalek.
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Intro music is “Devils Poker” and the outro music is “I Ain’t Dead Yet,” both by The Afterdarks.
Mike is the man!
Hi there,
Does anyone know where I can buy the mp4 downloads of both Airborne and Brink! in the United Kingdom?
Can’t seem to find them anywhere, although I did manage to find Airborne on DVD but I don’t want to have to burn it into iTunes and I don’t have a CD drive on my laptop anymore.
Thanks