Michael Biehn reportedly passed on the part of Bodhi in Kathryn Bigelow’s 1991 action film Point Break, a role that became one of Patrick Swayze’s best-known performances of the decade. The article presents the decision as a significant missed opportunity because Swayze’s charismatic surfer and bank robber helped make the film an enduring cult favourite.

Biehn had previously worked with Bigelow’s then-husband, James Cameron, on The Terminator, Aliens and The Abyss, but said he had also regretted declining a role in Bigelow’s Near Dark. He later recalled receiving an approach about the part eventually played by Swayze, while Point Break paired Swayze with Keanu Reeves as FBI agent Johnny Utah.