" Leo is a stuntman, and Harrison calls him "crazy.
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Brad Pitt for best supporting actor — played a stuntman.
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In "Drive Fast (The Stuntman)," amid keening strings that recall "Wichita Lineman," the singer is a stuntman itemizing his broken bones and scars, reminiscing about a romance on a B movie set.
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We were filmed and you had to fight a stuntman.
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You'll recall ... last month he ran over a stuntman on set.
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John Bernecker, a 'Walking Dead' stuntman has died ... TMZ has learned.
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He possesses the physicality of a stuntman who studied ballet in college.
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Ever the public stuntman, he invited a journalist to document the procedure.
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A man confronted the stuntman and ripped off his long orange wig.
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Pitt plays Cliff Booth, the stuntman to DiCaprio's Rick Dalton, a TV star.
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A stuntman attempts to parachute into the Olympic Stadium during the opening ceremony.
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I could have paid my way through school working as an adolescent stuntman.
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They both wanted to make movies; Joel became an actor, Nash a stuntman.
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Setting even one stuntman on fire, even with modern protective gear, is highly dangerous.
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The stuntman is covered with fire-resistant clothes, a cooling gel and a mask.
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He's a stuntman appearing on The Bachelorette who wishes he'd been better at baseball.
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Leo is a stuntman and occasional comedian, and this life might not match hers.
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Following the hospitalization of a stuntman, The Walking Dead is temporarily shutting down production.
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According to the The Hollywood Reporter, the stuntman has been identified as Joe Watts.
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Farrah Abraham has a new man in her life — she's dating stuntman Aden Stay.
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She was sexually and emotionally abused by her stepfather, actor and stuntman Jock Mahoney.
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While acting in a music video with a gunfight, stuntman Johann Ofner was actually shot.
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The stuntman survived the jump with no injuries; the horse broke its back and died.
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I need something to play with as an actor—otherwise I'd just be a stuntman.
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"There was no bear ever on set," stuntman Glen Ennis, 51, tells Global News, laughing.
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Schoenauer is a stuntman now ... but things went horribly awry for him during a Sept.
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Hinman, a music teacher, and Shea, a stuntman and ranch hand, were killed in 1969.
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Tutor is a former MMA fighter, adventure guide, stuntman and member of the U.S. Air Force.
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Thankfully, across three weeks of stunt shooting, the production only suffered one stuntman burning his hand.
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DiCaprio stars as Rick Dalton, an aging actor, while Pitt plays his longtime stuntman Cliff Booth.
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"The stuntman fell at least 30 feet — maybe a bit more," a source told The Sun.
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Slaviša Ivanović, a professional stuntman, was the first to snatch away the wooden cross that day.
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After suffering a tragic accident on the set of the Walking Dead, stuntman John Bernecker has died.
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The stuntman suffered a serious head injury and was rushed to the Atlanta Medical Center via helicopter.
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He has worked as a stuntman, an EMT, and a firefighter for the California Department of Forestry.
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In 2003 Gish married Wade Allen, a stuntman she met on the set of The X-Files.
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DiCaprio, 44, plays aging actor Rick Dalton, while Pitt, 55, stars as his loyal stuntman Cliff Booth.
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Five-year-old Stuntman Jake is sponsored by four companies and skates with veterans in Venice Beach.
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Tom Sizemore was loaded on set before he ran over a stuntman ... according to a new suit.
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A trained stuntman who had practiced that move ten times couldn't have executed it any more deftly.
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Morris studied acting in college and got his start working as a stuntman and physical theater performer.
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These are flourishes that the stuntman doesn't include, and the extra details make for a showier performance.
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His best friend is Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), a stuntman whose glory days are probably behind him.
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" Adds Weishaar, a studio stuntman: "I met the gal that I had been looking for all my life.
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Our policies produce motions that are nearly indistinguishable from mocap," adding that "We're moving toward a virtual stuntman.
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Overall, Irlam strove to make sure each stuntman set ablaze gave a unique performance which humanized every casualty.
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Stuntman John Bernecker lost his life filming a fight scene for the 8th season of the AMC show.
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Holland watches as stuntman Bobby Holland Hanton demonstrates an elaborate, trampoline-assisted spinning flip, then does it himself.
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I had become permanently over excited—a punch-drunk stuntman in the slapstick movie of my own life.
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Eyewitnesses tell TMZ ... 8 guys on the set tried in vain to lift the car off the stuntman.
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Lynch, whose stuntman career spans almost 30 years and over 200 movies, has collaborated with Foxx 10 times.
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For example, Disney recently developed a robotic stuntman that can perform stunts that can be risky for humans.
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Recently, the two have moved on to directing, and have used their stuntman talents to create impressive action movies.
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The movie also introduces Duke Kaboom, Canada's greatest stuntman — voice by everyone's favorite killer of fictional baddies, Keanu Reeves.
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At the moment, the active part of the stunt is over and the stuntman naturally wants to breathe again.
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When he leaves, the men seem genuinely upset, especially Leo, a doe-eyed stuntman with a pile of hair.
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An stuntman has died after being shot in the chest during a film shoot in Brisbane, Australia, Monday afternoon.
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A rep for the actor tells TMZ the "Shooter" stuntman suffered 2 broken ribs and a wrist ... requiring surgery.
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I don't know if Buster Keaton was much of a fighter, but he was a hell of a stuntman.
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As directed by Jung Byung-gil, a former stuntman, the film mirrors the experience of playing a video game.
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We're not sure if this deer leaping through a window was confused, or expertly putting together his first stuntman reel.
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Chris Hemsworth's longtime stuntman may look like the actor, but it's only after spending double the time in the gym.
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On July 12, the stuntman suffered "serious injuries" on the hit drama's Georgia set and died at an Atlanta hospital.
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A stuntman was injured on Monday while on the set of Fast & Furious 9 in England, according to multiple reports.
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Stuntman Damien Walters backflipped over a speeding Formula E car ahead of the event's race in Mexico City last month.
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First the stuntman John Bernecker died in July after a fall on the set of "The Walking Dead" in Atlanta.
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Disney's Imagineering Research and Development lab built a robotic stuntman that can perform daring flips 60 feet in the air.
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John Bernecker, a stuntman on The Walking Dead, has died after sustaining injuries on set, The Hollywood Reporter confirmed Friday morning.
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Longtime stuntman and stunt coordinator Nils Allen Stewart Sr. is Jesse "The Body" Ventura, and is also Jesse "The Mind" Ventura.
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The arrest comes 2 weeks after Tom accidentally ran over a stuntman while filming a TV show north of Los Angeles.
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During a live performance on the reality competition show, the Canadian stuntman was shot in the throat by a flaming arrow.
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If you were going to bet on which technology might soon do the work of a stuntman, you'd probably guess CGI.
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"Bachelor" star Leandro Dottavio has taken a leave of absence from his stuntman gig at Universal Studios following sexual harassment allegations.
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It helps that director Chad Stahelski is a former stuntman, and thus delivered some of the best staged action sequences imaginable.
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He had a medical marijuana card to treat pain for ailments incurred over decades as a professional stuntman and active alcoholic.
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Pitt played a troubled stuntman in Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood and a possibly more troubled astronaut in Ad Astra.
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Disney's humanoid stuntman started out as a much simpler robot called Stickman before it was transformed into the 90-pound humanoid.
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If you were a hot actor in 2019, you might have worn a harness, and not in like, a stuntman way.
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Bernecker had worked as a Hollywood stuntman since 2009, including on such films as Logan and The Fate of the Furious.
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Prior to their marriage, Palicki was engaged to stuntman Jackson Spidell, who she met on the set of John Wick in 2014.
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The Manson cult member, Bruce Davis, was convicted of the 1969 killings of the musician Gary Hinman and the stuntman Donald Shea.
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Now, 4003 years later, veteran Hollywood stuntman Eddie Braun plans to pay homage to the late Knievel by making the jump himself.
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The 31-year-old stuntman told the outlet that the comment was photoshopped, and has asked his lawyer to look into it.
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The stuntman Tom Sizemore ran over should make a full recovery ... we've learned his injuries were not as massive as first thought.
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After months of cancellations, the flat earth stuntman "Mad" Mike Hughes finally launched himself in his homebrew steam-powered rocket Saturday afternoon.
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The stuntman Eddie Braun successfully jumped over the Snake River Canyon in Idaho in an ode to his boyhood idol, Evel Knievel.
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He also was convicted in the connection with the killings of Gary Hinman, a musician, and stuntman Donald "Shorty" Shea in 1969.
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A few months before the Super Bowl, a stuntman named Bryan Friday was performing at the Six Flags amusement park in Dallas.
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Bogdan Bogdanovic, the dazzling 26-year-old Serbian sophomore who plays basketball like a stuntman who despises safety nets, is one of them.
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Jamie Foxx don't need no stinking stuntman -- he sprung into action and saved a driver from an overturned, burning car ... TMZ has learned.
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Tip "Don't jam yourself into the ground like a lawn dart," says Austin Anderson, a trick rider and horse stuntman from Troup, Tex.
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The Hobbs & Shaw actor, 51, spoke to Extra about stuntman Joe Watts' head injury on the set of the upcoming Fast & Furious 9.
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Earlier this month, Eliza Dushku shared her story of being sexually assaulted by a stuntman when she was a 12-year-old girl.
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Click here to view original GIFAustrian stuntman Josef Toedtling holds three Guinness World Records that few people would even dare think about challenging.
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There has to be a prerequisite not to put a super professional stuntman with an inexperienced actor who doesn't know what he's doing.
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Jason says it amounts to a big nothing, though, and then he was kind enough to humor our cameraman about being his stuntman.
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BIP also saw the entry of Leandro Dottavio, a stuntman, who was later accused of sexual misconduct by several anonymous sources via Martinez.
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Well, it's because over his long career, he has either starred, directed, produced or worked as a stuntman in an estimated 250 movies.
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AND FINALLY ... Ridin' the rails Yeah, Thomas the Tank Engine is a great kids' book character, but he's a pretty wicked stuntman, too.
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DiCaprio's washed-up actor has the biggest emotional arc, and Pitt's stuntman character is in his employ and thus technically subordinate to him.
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Lee is a star on the show, and Cliff is on set as the stuntman backup to his buddy Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio).
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A famous stuntman working on CBS' "MacGyver" reboot had a motorcycle jump on set go horribly wrong ... and land him in the hospital.
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" 'The Stuntman Who Inspired Brad Pitt's "Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood" Character Is More Badass In Real Life' [Esquire] "Booth's inspiration, [the stuntman Hal Needham] — who died at 82 in October 2013 — was even more remarkable: A cross between the MacGyver and the Dos Equis guy, inventing stunt rigs and shattering bones by day, and beefing with John Wayne by night.
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" 'The Stuntman Who Inspired Brad Pitt's "Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood" Character Is More Badass In Real Life' [Esquire] "Booth's inspiration, [the stuntman Hal Needham] — who died at 82 in October 2013 — was even more remarkable: A cross between the MacGyver and the Dos Equis guy, inventing stunt rigs and shattering bones by day, and beefing with John Wayne by night.
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He was also convicted later of ordering the killings of two others during that summer - music teacher Gary Hinman and stuntman Donald "Shorty" Shea.
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"It only makes it a silly thing that people go to see," Sewell says in the documentary, comparing Burden to the stuntman Evel Knievel.
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In January, Brown blocked the release of Bruce Davis, 74, who was convicted in the killings of Gary Hinman and stuntman Donald "Shorty" Shea.
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And a one-shot in a video game doesn't rely on actors, stuntman, and special effects teams getting everything right in a single-take.
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He has won a Technical Achievement Academy Award, and according to the Guinness World Records, he is the most prolific stuntman of all time.
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His skills led to jobs as an animal trainer and stuntman on the television series "Tarzan" and "Daktari," as well as occasional film work.
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" The "Deadpool 2" death came one month after a stuntman died on the Atlanta, Georgia set of AMC horror TV series "The Walking Dead.
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TMZ broke the story ... Sizemore was behind the wheel when he hit the gas on a Cadillac SUV, running over and pinning the stuntman.
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A 'Walking Dead' stuntman fell more than 20 feet onto a concrete floor ... suffering a serious head injury that sent him to the hospital.
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This backstory gives the stuntman, in many ways an idealized tough guy, a hint of menace, and a queasy underpinning to his easygoing nature.
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He had to make this statement after profiles in Newsweek and Esquire made him famous to Americans as a stuntman of the art world.
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Many protesters initially dismissed the case of the man who was set on fire after remonstrating with demonstrators as the work of a stuntman.
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Created in 1964 by Stan Lee and Steve Ditko, he is a former special-effects creator and stuntman in Hollywood who turns to crime.
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The original Mysterio's real name is Quentin Beck, a special effects creator and stuntman in Hollywood who becomes a supervillain who specializes in illusions.
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USA Network has given the green light to the limited series Evel, which features the This Is Us star as legendary stuntman Evel Knievel.
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Bray went on to a successful career as a Hollywood stuntman — his credits include "Iron Man" and "Star Trek" — and then a television director.
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As the stuntman Cliff Booth in Quentin Tarantino's ''Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood,'' Brad Pitt laid down a performance of vintage Hollywood dudeness.
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The highlight, though, is a collection of keepsakes from the late Chuck Hayward, who took his horses to Hollywood and worked as John Wayne's stuntman.
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The legendary stuntman Evel Knievel attempted more than 75 jumps on his motorcycle before his death from pulmonary heart disease in 2007 at age 19653.
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The family of The Walking Dead stuntman John Bernecker confirmed his death after sustaining "serious injuries" on the set of the AMC drama in Georgia.
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After much fanfare and mounting anticipation, Travis Pastrana successfully honored iconic stuntman Evel Knievel on Sunday, completing three of the late daredevils most famous stunts.
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That man is YouTube maker and, in this case, amateur stuntman Daniel Gruchy, who approaches the "experiment" with an appropriate mix of anxiety and disgust.
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Moh's Lee and Brad Pitt's character, stuntman Cliff Booth, are pitted against one another in a scene that Shannon Lee had previously taken issue with.
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Some familiar good ol' boys turn up here, including Quinn's father, a burnt-out Hollywood stuntman with a delusional scheme to open a dude ranch.
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SHORTY SHEA A former stuntman, this ranch hand on the Spahn estate (mentioned but not seen in the film) was killed by the Manson gang.
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The family of "The Walking Dead" stuntman John Bernecker scored millions in a wrongful death lawsuit but it was significantly short of what they wanted.
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"Aim for the meat, not bone," said Kevin Inouye, a stuntman and assistant professor of acting, movement and stage combat at the University of Wyoming.
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Pitt currently stars in Quentin Tarantino's box office hit Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood as the stuntman Cliff Booth to Leonardo DiCaprio's Rick Dalton.
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I spoke to a director who told me that I'd never be able to replicate an assault with a stuntman—and I'd never want to.
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" Lauren Cohan, who plays Maggie on the show, tweeted, "Dear Walking Dead Family, please keep John Bernecker, our stuntman and his family in your prayers today.
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In "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood," Pitt's character Cliff Booth — a washed-up Hollywood stuntman — makes the most simple version of mac and cheese possible.
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The stuntman who was reportedly injured on Monday while on the set of Fast & Furious 9 in England is in an "induced coma", multiple outlets report.
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Leo Dottavio finally made his grand entrance on Bachelor In Paradise, and the long-haired stuntman won't rest until he has kissed every woman in Paradise.
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Just days after the former Teen Mom OG star spoke with PEOPLE about Stay, she has ended her romance with the Hollywood stuntman, Radar first reported.
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If the producers of the Speed franchise are ever thinking of making a third movie, they should consider hiring this Chinese bus driver as a stuntman.
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To get the inside story on the viral video shoot and Spider-Man: Homecoming, Mashable sent stuntman Chris Silcox some questions: How uncomfortable is that harness?
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Vladimir Furdik, the Slovakian actor and stuntman who played the Night King, called from Budapest to share what it was like shooting the Battle of Winterfell.
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Where to stream it: Rent or buy at Amazon Brad Pitt: Murder-Prone Stuntman was clearly an easier sell than Brad Pitt: Astronaut With Daddy Issues.
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John Bernecker, a stuntman for AMC's "The Walking Dead," died on Wednesday night after being injured on set in Georgia, according to a local county coroner.
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The robot uses a combination of lasers, accelerometers and gyroscopes to track and adjust its position in midair to mimic the actions of a real stuntman.
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He and his wife Sandy Cohen had four children, including Danny Aiello III, an actor and stuntman who died in 2010 at age 53, IMDB said.
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A Boogie wit da Hoodie, Lil Yachty, and Tadoe all join for features; production comes from D. Rich, StuntMan, Turbo, CBMix and K.E. on the Track.
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The original Mysterio was Quentin Beck, a special effects expert and stuntman who leaves his career in Hollywood to better use his talents by creating criminal illusions.
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He earned rave reviews for his role as a tough, loyal stuntman in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood — his first film in two years.
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After Bekah Martinez brought sexual harassement allegations against Leo Dottavio to light on social media, the stuntman has taken a leave of absence from his current job.
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In a new ad for Australian insurer Budget Direct, the brand's fictional ambassador and stuntman, Captain Risky, drives his Ford XB in a dangerous double helix jump.
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So props to Danny for having the accuracy to 900 someone with a controlled kick to the head, and also to the stuntman that took the hit.
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Mr. Reynolds's Sonny Hooper is a stuntman — a perfectly meta role for an actor who had done his own driving while playing bootleggers, racers and other daredevils.
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"What's up, dude?" he said as he bro-hugged Kyle McLean, a stuntman with wind-swept blond hair who could pass for Mr. Van Der Beek's brother.
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"Let's try something more complicated now," said Greg Rementer, a stuntman with a salt-and-pepper beard and bulging quadriceps, as he demonstrated a balletic fight maneuver.
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Mr. Davis and other followers of Mr. Manson were convicted of killing Gary Hinman, a musician, in July 1969, and Donald Shea, a stuntman, a month later.
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Brad Pitt is having an excellent year, between his role as an enigmatic stuntman in Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and now Ad Astra.
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"Evel Knievel left one side of the canyon in 2400," said Braun, who was a lead stuntman on the "Rush Hour" movies with Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker.
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"Bachelor" franchise stars Bekah Martinez and Leo Dattavio are battling it out on social media after the 23-year-old reality star accused the stuntman of sexual harassment.
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Bernecker and another actor were rehearsing a fight scene on a balcony when the stuntman lost his footing and fell 30 feet onto concrete, sources told Deadline Hollywood.
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In a surreal development, the kind of masculine hero Rick inhabited on screen (soldier, cop, cowboy, bounty killer) shows up in the real-life behavior of his stuntman.
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Reeves voiced motorcycle stuntman action figure Duke Caboom in "Toy Story 4" and fans were also thrilled that the actor was named the new face of Saint Laurent.
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Those perilous worlds melded for her in the 1970s after she met the stuntman Ronald Hambleton, known as Duffy, while competing in a motorcycle race in Valencia, Calif.
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The two lived together, and with help from Mr. Hambleton and Hal Needham, the stuntman turned film director, Ms. O'Neil began performing stunts in movies and on television.
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The 'Walking Dead' stuntman who fell about 25 feet off a balcony was bleeding from his head and nose after the impact ... this according to the 911 call.
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Davis was sentenced to life in prison for the murders of musician Gary Hinman and stuntman Donald "Shorty" Shea in August 1969 and conspiracy to commit murder and robbery.
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He looks at Bran like he was a "piece of cake," as his portrayer, stuntman Vladimir Furdik (now also recognized on the internet as a total snack), told Vulture.
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Pitt took home his first Academy Award on Sunday night, winning best supporting actor for his role as a washed-up stuntman in "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood."
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In the sequel, stuntman-turned-director Chad Stahelski and writer Derek Kolstad, reunited from the first film, just want to make sure the audience is clear on the message.
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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration has opened a fatality investigation into the death of stuntman John Bernecker on the set of The Walking Dead, Entertainment Weekly has confirmed.
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After one minute and 45 seconds passed — the max time professionals deemed safe to be under water with no oxygen — medics rushed to his aid to free the stuntman.
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Finally, Bissonnette completes—barely—not one, but two separate "Stuntman" shots, which consisted of snorting salt, pounding a shot of tequila, and squirting a lime into his own eye.
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In the film it's where Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt's characters, actor Rick Dalton and his stuntman/Man Friday Cliff Booth, meet a veteran agent played by Al Pacino.
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He was later convicted of ordering the murders of music teacher Gary Hinman, stabbed to death in July 19973, and stuntman Donald "Shorty" Shea, stabbed and bludgeoned that August.
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Davis, 23, is currently serving a life sentence for the July 25, 1969, murder of musician Gary Hinman and the killing of stuntman Donald "Shorty" Shea in August 1969.
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Focusing on a failing actor (Leonardo DiCaprio), and his stuntman best friend (Brad Pitt), "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" received rave reviews when it was released in June.
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A longtime Hollywood stuntman, Joel Kramer, was accused of sexual misconduct by three women over the weekend, including one who said he assaulted her when she was just 12.
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The Fear the Walking Dead and Walking Dead panels also honored the late stuntman John Bernecker, who was fatally injured while filming a fight scene on the TWD set.
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The stuntman gets into a fight with the martial-arts master on the set and damages a car owned by the wife of a fictional stunt coordinator (Kurt Russell).
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A lot of it came from relatives of the late "Blacky" Ko Sau Leung, a popular crooner and stuntman known for jumping the Yellow River in a sports car.
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John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum, directed once again by former stuntman Chad Stahelski, picks up moments after Chapter 2 left off with Wick about to become a hunted man.
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Since 2009, Bernecker has worked as a stuntman appearing in films such as Logan, The Fate Of The Furious, Get Out, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and both Mockingjay movies.
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Nakajima began working as a stuntman shortly after World War II in Tokyo where he was spotted and cast by Ishiro Honda who directed the first Godzilla film in 1954.
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Special effects master and stuntman Quentin Beck had dreams of Hollywood stardom that never panned out, so he turned his attention (and his considerable skill at creating illusions) toward supervillainy.
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If that sounds familiar, that's because Gosling starred in a 2011 film titled Drive, where he played a stuntman by day and a (wait for it) getaway driver by night.
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The stuntman and actor, who also worked on The Fate of the Furious and Logan, was placed on life support after suffering massive head injuries that left him brain dead.
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"There's this trick in the stunt world where you have a stuntman do a spectacular thing and then he dips out of frame and the actor pops up," Pratt says.
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Ma will star alongside Natasha Liu Bordizzo, the star of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," retired sumo Grand Champion Asashoryu Akinori and actor and stuntman, Tony Jaa, to name a few.
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He first tries his luck in Hollywood, working variously as a special effects artist, a stuntman, and a director, but eventually decides that supervillainy is his easiest path to notoriety.
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In Once Upon a Time, Bruce — played by Mike Moh — is seen standing up to Brad Pitt's fictional character, stuntman Cliff Booth, on the 1969 set of The Green Hornet.
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In Once Upon a Time, Bruce — played by Mike Moh — is seen standing up to Brad Pitt's fictional character, stuntman Cliff Booth, on the 1969 set of The Green Hornet.
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Harris's death is the second on-set stunt performer death in the span of a month, following the July death of stuntman John Bernecker on the set of The Walking Dead.
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The Walking Dead executive producer Scott M. Gimple and AMC responded to the death of John Bernecker, the 33-year-old stuntman who died after an on-set accident on Wednesday.
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The Walking Dead producers have canceled their upcoming Television Critics Association press tour panel so they can attend the funeral of the stuntman who recently died from injuries sustained on-set.
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"I've told Harrison a number of times that if he wasn't such a good actor he'd be a great stuntman," Armstrong says of the man he's so regularly stood in for.
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As a Malibu, California-based stuntman and performer before the show started, he had a leopard, a cougar and a tiger on the ranch he shared with his wife and daughters.
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One of his first breaks came when a director demanded a perilous stunt—a tumbling leap from a high balcony—without a wire to catch the stuntman if it went awry.
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Rousey teamed up with filmmakers Gary Stretch, a former boxer turned actor, and Peter Antico, a stuntman, actor, and producer, back in 2011 to film her story, as USA Today reports.
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In this Ryan Gosling staple, a stuntman-turned-getaway driver becomes entangled in a criminal plot that puts the woman he loves (Carey Mulligan) and her husband (Oscar Isaac) at risk.
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The stuntman and actor, who also worked on The Fate of the Furious and Logan, was placed on life support after suffering massive head injuries that left him brain dead, Deadline reports.
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Executive producer Scott M. Gimple opened the show's panel at Comic-Con with a tribute to the stuntman, whose credits include Hunger Games, 22 Jump Street, Get Out, Logan, and Black Panther.
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The first half of the two-and-a-half-minute trailer plays like a goofy buddy comedy starring Leonardo DiCaprio as Western actor Rick Dalton and his stuntman, Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt).
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It's kinda funny ... the stuntman on set sorta looked like Daniel Craig at certain angles, but we HIGHLY doubt DC was behind the wheel for the kinda power steering you're seeing here.
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"We have this awesome opportunity to recreate three of the most iconic jumps by the most iconic stuntman who ever lived," Pastrana — whose company, Nitro Circus, is helping to produce the event.
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Braman -- who's about to be a free agent -- says he loves the comparison and says he's even down to be Momoa's official stuntman ... 'cause he's down to do all the dangerous stuff.
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A pro stuntman claims he was SHOT IN THE BACK with live ammunition from a semi-automatic assault rifle while auditioning for a role in a TV show ... and shocker, he's pissed!!!
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The two-time Oscar-winning actress, 71, spoke with the New York Times recently about the revelations of the book, including a shocking allegation about her stepfather, actor and stuntman Jock Mahoney.
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My ex-husband was a stuntman in Los Angeles, and he got me a job in 1986 on a remake of "Journey to the Center of the Earth" as a pig person.
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In Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood, Tarantino's Lee, played by Mike Moh, is humbled by Brad Pitt's character, stuntman Cliff Booth, after bragging about his fighting abilities while on a movie set.
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"We are saddened to report that John Bernecker, a talented stuntman for 'The Walking Dead' and numerous other television shows and films, suffered serious injuries from a tragic accident on set," AMC said.
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Eliza Dushku just posted a long, emotional account alleging she was molested by a stuntman when she was just 12 years old, and the adults on the set did nothing to protect her.
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The film, which comes from stuntman–turned–John Wick director David Leitch, could really bring the country together in appreciation of the straightforward gratification of cool clothes, pretty people, and breathtakingly choreographed violence.
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The film depicts Lee (played by Mike Moh) swaggering around the set of "Green Hornet," denigrating boxer Muhammad Ali and picking a street fight with the evenly matched stuntman Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt).
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When possible, training goes on in a gym dominated by a poster of Hussain Sadiqi, a Hazara martial arts champion who fled to Australia in 1999 and later worked as a film stuntman.
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The director Ben Hernandez Bray began his career in Hollywood as a stuntman, and though too many bones are crunched to describe this film as elegant, Bray directs action with merciless kinetic logic.
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Veteran stuntman Marcus Young serves as Banshee's fight choreographer, and the show's various directors, camera operators, and editors have done their best to bring his and the writers' many gonzo visions to fruition.
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Check it out ... you see the stuntman -- doesn't really look like Robert Pattinson under there -- sitting next to the Batbike which is on top of a moving platform being pulled by a truck.
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Hollywood stuntman and off-road racer Andrew Comrie-Picard half-jokes that pursuing a career as a professional driver is a "terrible choice for anyone," but he's certainly made the most out of it.
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The Walking Dead's production company has been fined by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration for the death of a stuntman while filming an episode of the hit AMC drama.
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Starring Margot Robbie as Manson family victim Sharon Tate, the film tells the fictional story of an actor (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his stuntman (Brad Pitt) as their lives intersect with Tate's that fateful summer.
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After studying the movement of bears, the visual effects team built a sort of skeletal bear head to set on fire and use in the scene, held by a stuntman in a green bodysuit.
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We're told Tom was supposed to run into the Cadillac SUV and just sit there until the scene ended, but he put the vehicle in reverse, hit the gas, and ran over the stuntman.
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Tarantino's ninth movie is unlike his previous work, as it sticks to one narrative, particularly the story of two characters, the TV star Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his stuntman, Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt).
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Jim Scott, 83, immigrated from Scotland, eventually settling in western Canada, where he worked as a horse stuntman, then as a director's assistant on the set of Hollywood movies shot on location near Vancouver.
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Canadian stuntman and sword swallower Ryan Stock has been impressing the judges all season by sticking items in his nose, putting a blow torch out on his tongue and holding a chainsaw in his mouth.
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Washington (CNN)The longtime political stuntman Roger Stone faced an exasperated judge on Thursday, as his lawyers failed to gain traction with bold legal arguments criticizing special counsel Robert Mueller before Stone's November criminal trial.
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Mr. Haggerty was working as a stuntman and animal handler in Hollywood when a producer asked him to act in some opening scenes he was reshooting for a film about a woodsman and his bear.
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What if guys like Rick and Cliff managed to fulfill their destiny, as an action star and a stuntman, by actually (if accidentally) staving off one of the most enduring, horrific crimes in Hollywood history?
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Why Mr. Robert decided to scale the tower was not immediately clear, but it was far from the first time that the 56-year-old French stuntman has scurried up the side of a skyscraper.
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Aspiring chef Kai Jin (played by celebrated stuntman Iko Uwais) is trying to get his food-truck business off the ground while occasionally working at the restaurant of his romantic interest Jenny (Li Jun Li).
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Mr. Manson was convicted separately of two other murders: those of Gary Hinman, a musician killed by Manson family members in late July 1969, and Donald Shea, a Barker Ranch stuntman killed late that August.
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"We are saddened to report that John Bernecker, a talented stuntman for The Walking Dead and numerous other television shows and films, suffered serious injuries from a tragic accident on set," AMC said in a statement.
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Dalton's best friend is Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), a talented stuntman who, unlike Needham, makes most of his money acting as Dalton's gofer and driver while living in a trailer behind a drive-in movie theater.
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"We are saddened to report that John Bernecker, a talented stuntman for The Walking Dead and numerous other television shows and films, suffered serious injuries from a tragic accident on set," AMC said in a statement.
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According to the Guinness Book of Records, the first professional Hollywood stuntman on record was one Frank Hanaway, an ex-US cavalryman who got a job falling off horses in 1903's The Great Train Robbery.
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In 2007, the Lonely Island released Hot Rod, a film starring Andy Samberg as an amateur stuntman who wants to raise money for his ill stepfather so that he can beat the shit out of him.
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Kurt Russell stars as a psychotic stuntman who preys on helpless women and gives them a fatal ride home in his "death proof" stunt car (which turns out to only be death proof for the driver).
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No one seemed ready to confront this taboo subject then, nor was I." Related: Eliza Dushku accuses stuntman of molestation Kramer denied the allegations in an email to CNN, calling them a "a well-crafted fabrication.
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The 28-year-old stuntman called out Amanda Stanton, who vied for Ben Higgins' heart, on Twitter and threatened Tanner Tolbert, of The Bachelorette season 11, after he questioned Dottavio's behavior during Monday's episode of the show.
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"Over the course of my career, my stunt double (and cousin) Tanoai Reed has broken multiple bones, severed tendons, torn ligaments & just been an overall dominating bad ass achieving several 'Stuntman of the Year' honors," Johnson said.
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Amabile, 32, breaks up a conversation between Long, 26, and Dottavio, in which the stuntman is telling the taxidermy enthusiast that he doesn't understand how she's still single, but also feels like she lied to him somehow.
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The studio sources also reportedly argued that the child actor&aposs father, who has been a stuntman in the business for a while, was on set and was not offended by the making up of his son.
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Photo: AP61-year-old DIY enthusiast and stuntman "Mad" Mike Hughes is planning his first manned launch of a homemade, $20,000 steam-powered rocket with "RESEARCH FLAT EARTH" written on the side on Saturday, the Associated Press reported.
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VICE met up with Will in Los Angeles to hear what inspired him to become a stuntman full-time, and to find out how he made it from the streets of LA to the glossy sets of Hollywood.
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We talked to Tyron Woodley who tells us he's been really hustling in his acting/stuntman career, and it paid off recently when he got to double NFL hall of famer, Barry Sanders, in a Pepsi Max spot.
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Zoë Bell, Tarantino's regular stuntwoman who doubled for Uma Thurman in the Kill Bill movies, stars as herself, and becomes a target of "Stuntman Mike" along with her friends and colleagues Abernathy (Rosario Dawson) and Kim (Tracie Thoms).
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But when Leno asks him how he will feel if his daughters Addy, 4, and Bristol, 2, decide to one day do dangerous stunts themselves, the stuntman responds that he wants them to love what they do, too.
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The actor bares himself and his doubts, but when the stuntman takes off his shirt, Tarantino throws his lot in with an old-school ideal — behold, the cool man of action — and telegraphs the film's frenzied violent end.
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"We are saddened to report that John Bernecker, a talented stuntman for The Walking Dead and numerous other television shows and films, suffered serious injuries from a tragic accident on set," noted a statement Thursday from AMC to Vulture.
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To honor the legacy of history's most celebrated stuntman, Travis Pastrana — who has won several X Games gold medals for supercross, motocross, and freestyle motocross — will attempt to surpass three of Knievel's signature jumps this weekend in Las Vegas.
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Click here to view original GIFBesides a bit of YouTube fame, it's hard to say why stuntman Damien Walters challenged himself to perform a daring backflip over a speeding Formula E race car—which he couldn't actually see coming.
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He spoke highly of the stuntman, who "was living his dream and he helped other people do the same thing" and rattled off his credits which include Black Panther, Logan, 22 Jump Street and The Fate and The Furious.
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Steve de Castro, who worked as a stuntman on the TV show "Shooter," claims he was within a hair's breath of death and suffered multiple broken bones after being run over and pinned under the SUV Sizemore was driving.
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In his cover story for GQ's October issue, Pitt, 55, spoke about what pushed him to take on the role of stuntman Cliff Booth in Once Upon a Time in…Hollywood, opposite Leonardo DiCaprio as aging actor Rick Dalton.
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Thorgerson and company were famous for snapping photos of real things when they wanted to capture, paradoxically, the highest concentration of surrealism (for example, see Wish You Were Here and the poor stuntman who was talked into lighting himself on fire).
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There was a stuntman called Ray Austin, and the poor man, by the time I got to him — it was about 4 in the afternoon — he'd been bashed around by so many desperate actresses, absolutely determined to get the part.
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"Over the course of my career, my stunt double (and cousin) Tanoai Reed has broken multiple bones, severed tendons, torn ligaments & just been an overall dominating bad ass achieving several "Stuntman of the Year" honors," Johnson wrote along with the video.
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No-fuss scrambled eggs, spooned into a potato chip bag with hot sauce, then shaken up and eaten directly out of the potato chip bag, which is the perfect answer for the morning after a night full of Stuntman shots.
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Braver was largely inspired by adventure games growing up, and combined that influence with his own background as a Hollywood stuntman, giving Delusion productions a cinematic feel and sense of polish that have been unique in the immersive theater community.
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This article originally appeared on EW.com The Walking Dead cast and crew are back to work, EW has confirmed, returning to the Georgia set less than a week after the death of stuntman John Bernecker led to production shutting down.
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But director Isaac Florentine—a former stuntman himself—refused to believe that straight-to-DVD actioners must suck, so he filmed his brutal, intricately-choreographed fight scenes cleanly and smoothly, without chopping them all to hell in the editing room.
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Aikins, a self-described "member of the Red Bull Air Force, professional skydiver, BASE jumper, stuntman, pilot ... (and) aviation expert," did the astonishing stunt, billed "Heaven Sent," live on TV while his family and supporters watched from the landing site.
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At the start of the show, a stuntman dressed as Grohl ran out on stage and took what seemed to be a big, accidental tumble off the side of the stage to the shock of the thousands of fans in attendance.
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A $21996 million contract was canceled, and she was virtually blacklisted in Hollywood after her father, a cowboy stuntman and stand-in for the Western star Tom Mix, had a bitter falling out with a studio boss over her salary.
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I can't decide what's more exhilarating: Brad Pitt's performance as stuntman Cliff Booth in Once Upon a Time in..Hollywood, or watching Brad Pitt win any award for his performance as Cliff Booth in Once Upon a Time in..Hollywood.
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The sneak peek featured plenty of familiar faces including Leonardo DiCaprio as down-on-his-luck actor Rick Dalton, Brad Pitt as stuntman Cliff Booth, Al Pacino as Hollywood producer Marvin Schwarzs, Margot Robbie as Sharon Tate, and Damon Herriman as Charles Manson.
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Counseling him through this crisis — and driving him, since Dalton's license has been suspended — is Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), Dalton's longtime stuntman who now mostly helps out his old boss by doing odd jobs, running errands, and, above all, lending moral support.
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But the panel took on a somber, reverential tone before any talk of the new episodes could commence as the TWD team paid tribute to 33-year-old stuntman John Bernecker, who died July 12 at an Atlanta hospital after falling 30 ft.
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He must deal with posh British director Laurence Laurentz (a hilariously flighty Ralph Fiennes), who is desperately unhappy with the casting of the new romantic lead in his film, pretty boy Hobie Doyle (Alden Ehrenreich), a stuntman palpably uncomfortable with speaking roles.
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And though that infamous moment in history is certainly one part of the movie, the film's heart and soul is the relationship between the TV star Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his stuntman, Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), as they navigate their crumbling careers.
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Mr. Reynolds was making "City Heat" (1984) with Clint Eastwood — a pairing of Hollywood heavyweights that turned out to be another box-office disappointment — when a stuntman clobbered him with a heavy chair that was supposed to be a breakaway balsa wood prop.
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Pitt's portrayal of the semi-retired stuntman, who spends his time chauffeuring around his best friend Rick Dalton (DiCaprio) — "closer than a brother and a little less than a wife" — and stripping down to his Levis, has swept awards season so far.
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The Nissan Titan XD had been named the Truck of Texas in 2015, and there was a lot of chatter at the rodeo about whether it would repeat, but my stuntman-style ride with Mr. Goslawski gave me a bias toward the Raptor.
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The audience gasped, laughed and applauded as they followed the tale of a fading TV star (played by Leonardo DiCaprio), his loyal stuntman (Brad Pitt) and Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie), set in the final days before Charles Manson upended Hollywood's collective psyche.
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The audience gasped, laughed and applauded as they followed the tale of a fading TV star (played by Leonardo DiCaprio), his loyal stuntman (Brad Pitt) and Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie), set in the final days before Charles Manson upended Hollywood's collective psyche.
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Pitt won best actor in a supporting role in any motion picture for his portrayal of stuntman Cliff Booth in Quentin Tarantino&aposs lauded ninth film — and made sure to thank his "partner in crime," whom he christened with a charming new nickname.
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That said, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is a rich, fictionalized version of the period that Charles Manson and his followers terrorized Los Angeles, told through the story of actor Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his stuntman Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt).
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Additionally, new characters like Forky (Tony Hale), a spork Bonnie transforms into a toy with the help of some googly eyes and pipe cleaner, Duke Caboom (Keanu Reeves), a motorcycle stuntman, and Ducky (Keegan-Michael Key) and Bunny (Jordan Peele), two stuffed animals, make appearances.
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This is the fourth promo for the Deadpool sequel that its studio, 20th Century Fox, has released so far, and the first that gives some sense of the plot of the film, which is directed by Atomic Blonde director and former stuntman David Leitch.
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What little can be said about the plot hinges on the relationship between two characters played by Tarantino alumni Leonardo DiCaprio ("Django Unchained") and Brad Pitt (the aforementioned "Basterds"), here cast as an amusingly insecure actor, Rick Dalton, and his taciturn stuntman/driver, Cliff Booth.
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Doctors explained he would be placing himself at great risk by undergoing the operation, but not one to let danger get in the way of things, Bramstedt—a movie stuntman and a skydiving instructor at Skydive San Diego—was set on going through with it.
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Former stuntman Leitch knows his way around a challenging sequence, and it shows, even in a final stand-off that requires a ton of moving pieces (and people) and a maximum of time (it's one of the few bloated bits in a fast-moving feature).
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The world faded away and we were left with the essence of wrestling's dramatic side: an actor/stuntman/athlete, in front of a crowd, feeding on their energy as they fed on his, with the weight of pro wrestling's years bearing down on us.
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He starred in the third installment of his hyper-violent saga "John Wick," made a self-parodic cameo in the Netflix rom-com "Always Be My Maybe" and voiced Canadian stuntman Duke Caboom in "Toy Story 4," all released to critical acclaim within two months.
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Directed by former stuntman and John Wick co-director David Leitch, Deadpool 2 is sharp fun, a delirious exhibition for the bawdy, acerbic humor of Ryan Reynolds — who co-wrote this sequel in addition to starring in it — fused with blistering, inventive action sequences.
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This mild shoot day isn't nearly as involved or complete as the one from a few days ago when what appeared to be another stuntman was doing a complete motorcycle ride through a graveyard, complete with a mask and some falls off the bike.
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Once Upon A Time In Hollywood is set up as a film about the Manson family's real-life murder of Sharon Tate and several friends, explored from the perspective of two largely fictitious performers: actor Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his stuntman Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt).
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For all their chatter and violence, Quentin Tarantino's films are male weepies of a type, and one way to look at his "Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood" is through the complementary relationship between Leonardo DiCaprio's twitchily self-doubting actor and Brad Pitt's self-confident stuntman.
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Case in point ... cool-guy stuntman A. Matt Reeves' upcoming superhero epic about the early years of The Dark Knight is in the middle of filming right now out in Scotland -- and on Saturday ... the crew got some shots of Batsy riding around on his motorcycle.
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A stuntman and showman as much as a drummer, longtime Mötley Crüe stickman Tommy Lee has been whiling away the dates on the band's feed farewell tour inside of his patented Crucifly drum coaster, a contraption that whisks his drum kit up off stage and out into the audience.
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I've been a Glaswegian country singer (Wild Rose), a fury-filled inductee into a Swedish folkloric cult (Midsommar), a member of the Avengers (Avengers: Endgame), a dancer in the throes of a drug-fueled mass psychosis (Climax), and a very hot stuntman (Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood).
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Jumping over a racing car would be ridiculous enough — in fact scratch that, even riding in one would be more than enough for us — but stuntman Damien Walters goes one step further in the clip above: he faces away from the damn thing and actually backflips over it.
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For five weeks' work on another car-chase picture, "The Cannonball Run" (20103) — directed, as were the first two "Smokey" movies, by Mr. Reynolds's friend Hal Needham, a former stuntman — he was paid $22010 million (the equivalent of about $22015 million in 240 dollars), a record at the time.
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With his signature patriotic jumpsuit and increasingly ambitious motorcycle jumps over buses, cars and sharks, the stuntman became one of the defining figures of the 1970s, simultaneously thrilling and putting the fear of death into sold-out audiences — in this case, the death they were afraid of was his.
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Toy Story 4 adds more merchandisable characters to the collection, too, including Bunny and Ducky, two plush carnival prizes voiced by comedy duo Jordan Peele and Keegan-Michael Key, and Duke Caboom, a Canadian daredevil voiced by Keanu Reeves, whose patriotism is equalled only by his consistent ineptitude as a stuntman.
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Uh, This Flat Earther's Homemade Manned Rocket Launch Does Not Sound Totally AdvisablePhoto: AP61-year-old DIY enthusiast and stuntman "Mad" Mike Hughes is planning his first manned launch of a homemade, $20,000 steam-powered rocket with "RESEARCH FLAT EARTH" written on the side on Saturday, the Associated Press reported.
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That movie manages, quite skillfully, to have its cake and eat it too by introducing a group of hip women friends, having them be gruesomely murdered by a misogynistic serial killer named Stuntman Mike (Kurt Russell), and then introducing another group of hip women friends to stomp him to death.
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His role as a 1960s stuntman in Tarantino's movie earned him his first Oscar win for acting, but his upfront payday for the film was significantly lower than the typical $20 million Pitt pulls in from other blockbusters like "World War Z." This can be attributed to differences in payment models.
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Best about Hollywood: "Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood"The Manson murders loom in Quentin Tarantino's 1960s nostalgia trip, but the bulk of the running time is occupied by a slice-of-life narrative about the fading fortunes of actor Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and stuntman Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt).
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We divide and conquer, because what our 3-year-old wants (unrestricted access to his Legos, high praise for all of his amateur stuntman performances, and a steady diet of his favorite food which is, literally, "sugar") rarely ever matches what our newborn needs (milk on demand, gentle snuggles, and tummy time).
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He supported Rock Hudson and John Wayne in the western "The Undefeated" (1969); played an eager participant in a long-distance horse race opposite Candice Bergen and Gene Hackman in another western, "Bite the Bullet" (1975); and was an up-and-coming stuntman in "Hooper" (1978), with Burt Reynolds and Sally Field.
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Director Jung Byung-gil was a stuntman before he stepped behind the camera, and there are action sequences in The Villainess, like the one on the bus, or the one that takes place on motorcycles, that feel like he's reinventing how fights can be shot, moving the camera in fluid ways that seem almost impossible.
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Following the on-set death of stuntman John Bernecker, the cast and creative team of TV's #1 series almost skipped Comic-Con altogether, but instead chose to conduct a panel that was wholly for the fans — with no celebrity moderator and a full hour of fan Q&A, plus this powerful trailer for Season 8.
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After building one of the most respected stuntman crews in Hollywood with Chad Stahelski in the early 2000s (they were called on to do all the big action movies like "The Bourne Legacy" and the "Expendables" movies), the two made their directorial debut with the surprise hit "John Wick" starring Keanu Reeves in 2014.
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Because it was not enough to play a motorcycle stuntman who transforms into a skeleton with a flaming skull and fights evil demons, an exotic animal expert who punches jaguars in the face, and a truffle hunter on a desperate search for his kidnapped hog, Nicolas Cage has decided to take his career in an even more absurd direction.
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The movie is set in late 1960s Los Angeles and centers on a Western TV actor named Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his stuntman, Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt), who hang around Dalton's house on Cielo Drive—right next door to where Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie) is horrifically murdered by the Manson family in August of 1969.
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Back in civilian life, he'd undergo SWAT training; work as an adventure guide, rock climbing and white water rafting in Oregon; become a stuntman in feature films; write and record a single, "Fire Fly," with his brother; and act as security and survival specialist for a team of treasure hunters on the Discovery Channel show, Treasure Quest Snake Island. 5.
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The writers of "Silicon Valley" have a special talent for engineering elaborate systems for the sake of a good running joke — the sexual mathematics that led to the Eureka moment for middle-out; the SWOT board as a way to determine whether or not to let an unctuous stuntman fall to his doom — but "Meinertzhagen's Haversack" is a high-water mark.
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Photo Courtesy Kinja Commenter: IanDalton When last we heard of "Mad Mike" Hughes, the 61-year-old limo driver and stuntman who planned on launching a $20,000 steam-fueled rocket with "RESEARCH FLAT EARTH" painted on the side some 1,800 feet into the air at 500 miles per hour, the gosh darn government had intervened to tell him he couldn't conduct any such launch on public lands.
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Photo: AP61-year-old stuntman and amateur Flat Earth theory researcher "Mad" Mike Hughes, who planned to launch himself some 1,800 feet up at 203 miles per hour in an untested homemade steam-powered rocket over the Mojave Desert ghost town of Amboy, California on Saturday in some sort of gambit to prove the Earth is flat (spoilers: it's not), will not be doing any of that that this weekend.
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That seems fairly unlikely, to say the least, but it oddly dovetails with an interview with a stuntman on the movie who claims that, a week before the premiere, there was an entirely different cut with an entirely different ending that killed off Rey but left Kylo Ren alive—and claims that Lucasfilm was pushing for some of the more controversial elements of the movie, including the kiss between Rey and Kylo.
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