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Sean Penn and Bono at Cannes for the opening of 'Third Wave'. Shot in 2004 in Sri Lanka in the wake of the tsunami that left some 170,000 people dead across Asia, The Third Wave recounts how Thompson and her partner Oscar Gubernati took off from New York with little more than a handful of dollars to try to help the victims, only days after the disaster.
Picking up a couple of extra pairs of hands, they took off for the coast with a van of supplies and stopped in the village of Peraliya, where 2 500 people had died, including hundreds traveling on a smashed train. Penn saw the film on the behest of Czech model Petra Nemcova, who was in Thailand on holidays when the tsunami struck and survived by clinging to a tree as her fiance was swept to his death. |