Gallery: Red Carpet At The “Andy Irons: Kissed By God” World Premiere

The house lights have fallen, and the 1,200+ guests truly packed into Los Angeles’ Regency Theater are silent, many in the star-studded and justifiably somewhat somber crowd learning the truth of what happened—not only that fateful night in Dallas six years ago, but the decades leading up to Andy Irons’ death for the very first time.

Guests began to arrive early for the World Premiere of Andy Irons: Kissed By God. Tickets were only available to the general public in very limited quantities, and through a lottery, while the company driving the project, Teton Gravity Research welcomed the hundreds and hundreds of VIP requests to the highly anticipated documentary with open arms. 

Mick Fanning and Joel Parkinson just slid in at the last minute. Michael Thompson is enjoying his popcorn thoroughly. Johnny Knoxville, Liam and Chris Hemsworth, Albee Layer, Andy’s good friends Cory Lopez, CJ Hobgood, and Fred Patacchia, longtime shaper Matt Biolos, as well as Christian Hosoi, Pat Tenore, Christian Fletcher, and hundreds of the world’s best surfers all coming to pay their respects and, as they’ll learn very soon, to grieve together once more. 

Lyndie Irons is absolutely radiant, lei’d and stunning in long black—she is our Jackie Kennedy, and tonight feels like it is all for her.

As for Bruce, who is truly incredible in the film—clear-eyed and confident, with a hell of a story to get off his chest—was feared a no-show, which is understanding.

As one friend of the Irons family admitted, “It can’t be easy to watch the same thing that’s always running through your mind, played out over and over again on the screen.”

But here he is—Bruce, gallant in an all black tuxedo, visibly fragile given the evening’s weight, sliding in fashionably late without the crowd noticing. 

Freddy P. and Travis Logie.

Photography

Victoria Moura

Albee Layer, hank Gaskell and friends.

Photography

Victoria Moura