"Swimming Upstream" scene

[sebbie]

I was watching the 2003 movie "Swimming Upstream" (again). There is a famous scene in that movie where Tony Fingleton (as played by Jesse Spencer) is headed off to a big meet (the Empire Games) with the other Australian Swimmers. A group of young ladies are clearly fascinated by the male swimmers and their bodies. One of the young ladies rushes up to Tony and asks him if he would give her one of his suits. He says "Sure!" and pulls out a little neon-green suit (interestingly he does not war that suit in any movie scene). She says something like "but I would rather have you in it!" and dashes off.

My question is, "Has something like this ever happened to you?" with either a female or male. I'm not sure if its common for young male swimmers to get requests for suits or not (from either sex). This probably happened to the real Tony Fingleton, way back in the early 1960s, when that part of the movie took place.

This movie is set in the 50s through the 60s. All the suits, supposedly kids in early to late teens, are briefs, solid color, typically maroon, forest green or navy, but rather conservative with about 4-inch sides. Even so, that the swimmers are males is quite obvious in the movie, with sometimes the guys showing quite a bit. The last scene, however, shows Fingleton as a freshman at Harvard swimming in a much smaller and tighter suit--that suit seems too new for when that scene supposedly happened, 1964 or 1965.

One of the issues in filming this movie had to be getting the suit styles right for when each scene was filmed.