'WE TRAILBLAZED THAT': 'Baywatch' star Nicole Eggert reveals how sexy slo-mo beach run began

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Nicole Eggert is exposing how the iconic Baywatch slo-mo beach run came to be — and admits it was “not cute.”

The 53-year-old actress and model appeared on a recent episode of Still Here Hollywood hosted by Steve Kmetko.

When asked about running in slow motion in those classic red swimsuits, from which no series star was exempt, Eggert dished on how it all began.

“Here’s the thing about the slow-motion running,” Eggert divulged.

“We had no idea that there was such a thing as slow motion. We trailblazed that,” she explained of the filming technique used in a Baywatch context.

“We were the guinea pigs the first two seasons of this new look of Baywatch,” she said of her time on the third and fourth seasons of the hit show.

Baywatch ran for nine seasons, from 1989 to 2001.

“Nobody mentioned the slow mo,” Eggert recalled.

“I heard that (it) happened by accident in the editing room,” she continued. “It was a timing thing, and an editor put it in slo-mo, the run, for a montage, and then everybody fell in love with it.”

Eggert detailed how she was “running full speed,” but affirmed that “full-speed running in slow motion is not cute. Not cute at all.”

So for the actors who appeared after her and her groundbreaking co-stars, they “had it so much easier because they knew what they were going into,” Eggert added.

The former Charles in Charge star said she was envious of later cast members who knew ahead of time what the final product would look like.

“They could be more conscious of the looks they had on their face or the way they were holding their body,” she said.

“Not me,” the cancer survivor added. “I was out there, like, trying to be Miss Athletic running, and then they would put it in slo-mo. So I had a lot of cringeworthy moments.”

Eggert’s character Summer Quinn was a student and star athlete in Pittsburgh when she moved to California to live with her mother and joined the team of lifeguards.

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Her main love interest was Matt Brody (played by David Charvet) but she left at the end of Season 4 to pursue an education at Penn State.

Eggert reprised her role in the reunion movie Baywatch: Hawaiian Wedding, where it was revealed that she was in a relationship with Hobie, son of David Hasselfhoff’s Mitch Buchannon.

Alexandra Daddario played the role of Summer in the 2017 film led by Dwayne Johnson and Zac Efron.