Since the early days of Hollywood, stunt performers have fueled the mayhem of movies, playing a vital role in sustaining the illusion of countless car chases, bar fights and rooftop leaps.
This image released by Universal Pictures shows Emily Blunt, right, and Ryan Gosling in a scene from"The Fall Guy." The first, says stunt performer Ben Jenkin, is not to breathe in a flame. That would be bad. Jenkin was reminded of that over and over before doing his first fire burn in“Moving forward and keeping the fire behind you allows you to breathe and to control the fire,” Jenkin says. “Movement is your friend.
The most eye-catching stunts come in big-budget action movies like “The Fall Guy,” but nearly every studio movie involves some stunt work. Take Chris O’Hara, head of Stunts Unlimited and the stunt designer on “The Fall Guy.” He’s not only a veteran of innovative, stunt-heavy films like “The Matrix” and the Jason Bourne series but he was also the guy who caught Saoirse Ronan when she leapt out of a moving car in Greta Gerwig’s “Lady Bird.
They became masters of their craft — or at least mostly. Leitch never got driving down. On “The Mexican,” he crashed an El Camino into its only back-up, another El Camino. Ryan Gosling stars as Colt Seavers, a veteran stuntman and double for star Tom Ryder whose romance with a fellow crew member, Jody Moreno , is severed after an accident on set only to fitfully resume years later. By then Jody is directing her first feature and Colt is brought in as a stuntman, including for that fire-burn scene.
Before working in film, Jenkin was accomplished in parkour. “I feel right into stunts,” he puns. His gift for contorting himself through the air and landing on the designated spot has made him one of the most sought-after stuntmen. Still, “The Fall Guy” was the busiest he’s ever been on a movie. “I can’t remember how many times I went through a pane of glass,” says Jenkin.
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