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When someone is being paid to be the face of a movie, standard procedure is to make sure they are safe on set and swap in less costly people to perform actions that carry a notable risk factor. This is known as a Stunt Double, Talent Double, or Body Double. The inversion of this is an actor who insists or is encouraged to understand the performance and storytelling involved, and rather than swap out someone else while getting a snack they stick with every part of the filming process so it is always them on camera. There are a few flavors to this: The actor is a stuntperson in their own right — in other words, they've got the training and the skill. It's highly likely they originated as a stuntman before graduating to a lead actor, coming from a background of martial arts, acrobatics, military, etc. A related situation is where most of a character's on-screen time is action or fight scenes with little dialogue (this is common for an Elite Mook), in which case someone who is mainly a stunt performer will be cast in the role. It could also be that something about the actor—usually physical size—makes finding a stunt double difficult or impossible. Smarter actors want to do their own stunts but are aware that some things are best left to the professionals' work, understanding what they can do safely and clearly while the stunt coordinator and their team to do the bigger and riskier ones. Both the stunt double and actor may work with each other to make sure performance continuity is maintained. Many actors get enthusiastic about the physicality of the role only to learn the hard way that a stuntman really is important. The actor only claims to do their own stunts in an effort to bolster their own image, but in fact are constantly replaced. While they may be enthusiastic, such claims may not endear you to future stunt teams. note The use of a Body Double means often the actor is not even invited to set where some big sequence is filmed, so they may think falling three feet onto a pad is all the character is doing when the stuntman is jumping between helicopters. In-Universe instances involving an actor and their relationship with stuntmen or how they are perceived due to their famous roles. Quite common in Silent Films, when stunt doubles were almost unknown, No OSHA Compliance was a Real Life fact and money was tighter so you couldn't afford to pay extra performers. In modern times, this tropes comes up because audiences tend to be pretty savvy and will recognize an Obvious Stunt Double when it rears its head. Stunt doubles usually have to be obscured in some way (by keeping the camera far away, cutting really tight around the face, keeping the lighting low or by filming from the back), because otherwise the audience might get pulled out of the scene. But if the actor does their own stunts, you can do more closeups or bright lighting or whatever you might like to do. The tradeoff, of course, is that you might need to make the stunt itself less impressive in order to match the actor's skill level in stunt work. The use of a Digital Head Swap has alleviated some of these issues, allowing more complex scenes without needing to obscure the double's face that much. That said, sometimes so much emphasis is placed on the actor giving it a good try that the actual, truly dangerous work of the stuntman is overlooked or downplayed. Still, it's also a cool thing to engage with as an actor, as they often spend months at the gym and practicing the stunt in order to get it right, which may also help them carry themselves differently physically as appropriate for the role. It's also a way of hinting that the actor isn't merely a badass in-character; they're also a badass in Real Life! |
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Amy Dumas (Lita) did her own stuntwork in her episode of Dark Angel, but unfortunately she injured herself doing it. | |
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Batman (1966): Burt Ward was required to do his own stunts. This was partly because Robin's Domino Mask would make hiding a double's face harder, and partly because the studio wanted to save money by not having to pay another stunt double. Burt was a legitimate martial artist, but by the time the show was over, he had been hospitalized over a dozen times. Yvonne Craig talked the studio into letting her do her own stunts, because her ballet training let her do Batgirl's kicks and acrobatics, and she knew how to ride a motorcycle. |
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He's an accomplished stunt driver and is usually the one behind the wheel in car chase scenes. The chase in Jack Reacher in particular has several shots that seem designed to show that he, not a double, is the one driving. | |
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He's also been a licensed pilot since 1994 and is seen flying his own personal P-51 Mustang at the end of Top Gun: Maverick with Jennifer Connelly in the rear seat. | |
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From the James Bond series: Sean Connery and Robert Shaw did their fight scene in From Russia with Love themselves. Claudine Auger from Thunderball was a skilled swimmer and scuba diver and performed all her own underwater scenes. Roger Moore, who once joked that he did all his own stunts and all his own lying, did his own stunt driving in the fire truck chase sequence in A View to a Kill, having been a truck driver in his youth. Timothy Dalton was keen to do as many of his own stunts as he could, whether it sliding down a hill in a cello case in The Living Daylights or running from a very real explosion in the climax of Licence to Kill. Pierce Brosnan and Sean Bean did their fight scene in GoldenEye themselves. Brosnan and Toby Stephens did most of the Sword Fight in Die Another Day themselves. Daniel Craig and Sebastian Foucan did most of the Le Parkour scene themselves in Casino Royale (2006), even bonding with each other through the ordeal. |
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Grant Page, a famous Australian stunt artist of the 1970s and 1980s, did the occasional acting role. Among his biggest is as the villain in Road Games, an Australian Duel copy in which his Car Fu talents came in useful. | |
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In Entrapment Catherine Zeta-Jones performed most (some sources say all) of the climbing and gymnastics in the rafters herself. | |
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On Hawaii Five-0, Alex O'Loughlin originally liked to do as many of his stunts as possible. However, he injured his shoulder on set in 2011 and became addicted to the painkillers he took for it, necessitating him going into rehab and Commander McGarrett being Put on a Bus for part of season three. After The Bus Came Back, he was much more sensible about what he did and what he allowed a stunt double to do for him. | |
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Assassination Classroom: In the epilogue, it's shown that Kayano has taken to doing her own stunts in her films, using the skills she picked up during her time in Class E. | |
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Power Rangers: As his castmates in Power Rangers: Dino Thunder put it, there are stunt doubles and there is Jason David Frank. He did, however, become less eager to do high-risk stunts after swimming against the rapids in Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie while his stunt double just sat there happily collecting a paycheck after only doing the initial jump. All of the original Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers did their own stunts for at least the first 40 episodes. The actors were cast, in part, based on experience with martial arts, gymnastics, or dancing. This includes footage of them actually in the suits. However, Amy Jo Johnson became a bit cautious after she caught on fire while filming the episode "Switching Places." Even after the first season, though, the actors were still really hands-on until Power Rangers in Space when the show decided to go SAG halfway through the season. In Power Rangers S.P.D., the actress that played A-Squad Pink was already the suit actress for B-Squad Yellow, and thus did her own suit acting as well. The male members of the Power Rangers RPM cast were really insistent that they do as much of the stunt work as they physically could, and by the end of the season, Eka Darville was training alongside the Japanese stuntmen. He had gotten that good. Other actors with experience, like Johnny Yong Bosch, Dan Southworth, Mike Chaturantabut, and Brennan Mejia, also had opportunities to flex their skills onscreen. |
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The four main actors in Deliverance did their own stunts, mainly for insurance reasons. For example, that's really Jon Voight scaling a cliff. | |
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He then went and one-upped that for the sequel Mission: Impossible – Fallout. One of the stunts has him hanging out of a helicopter mid-flight. With no pilot. Because he was piloting it. And as if that wasn't enough, he also did over a hundred HALO jumps to get three usable takes. Fallout also had Cruise breaking his foot jumping across rooftops, and still finishing the shot despite knowing immediately he'd broken it (the take is in the movie, where watching it in slow-motion makes it clear when he slammed a foot into the wall). | |
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Total Drama World Tour: Much to Blaineley's horror, the cast of Total Drama does not have stunt doubles and they have to do all the death-defying challenges personally. She wouldn't have minded all that much if she hadn't ended up being forced to compete. | |
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All of the original Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers did their own stunts for at least the first 40 episodes. The actors were cast, in part, based on experience with martial arts, gymnastics, or dancing. This includes footage of them actually in the suits. However, Amy Jo Johnson became a bit cautious after she caught on fire while filming the episode "Switching Places." Even after the first season, though, the actors were still really hands-on until Power Rangers in Space when the show decided to go SAG halfway through the season. | |
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In Sentinels of the Multiverse, Ancel Moreau - prior to leaving the movie business - did all his own stunts, including piloting fighter jets. These skills came in handy for his second career, which was Hunting the Most Dangerous Game as the supervillain Ambuscade. | |
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During production of Return of the Jedi, George Lucas asked Fisher if she wanted a stunt double to kill Jabba the Hutt, but she declined and wanted to kill him herself. | |
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In The Wild Wild West, Robert Conrad did almost all his own stunts. One stunt went horribly wrong, almost killing him and shutting down production of the series for 3 months. After Conrad recovered, they picked up where they left off and used the botched stunt in the final cut of the episode in question. | |
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In DuckTales (2017), the actor who plays DW in the live-action Show Within a Show version of Darkwing Duck did all his own stunts ... and was renowned as the most injured actor in the business. | |
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Everybody in Home Movie: The Princess Bride acted out their own stunts, because this is supposed to be a home movie. For the scene where Westley and Buttercup roll down the hill, a stairwell stands in for the hill, and the characters are substituted with garbage bags loosely stuffed with some other clothes for weight and volume, "dressed" in the characters' costumes, and then tossed down the stairs with their dialogue dubbed in post. (The "Buttercup" trash bag has a blonde wig affixed to it, and the wig falls off once it reaches the bottom.) | |
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The protagonists of Chroma Squad started out as stunt doubles on another Sentai show, and are on a tight budget for their own, so they do their own stunts. Comes in handy when the real aliens start showing up. | |
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In 101 Dalmatians II: Patch's London Adventure, Thunderbolt is a stunt dog—though he needs everything scripted. | |
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X2: X-Men United: Anna Paquin did the wirework for the shot of Rogue being sucked out of the Blackbird herself. | |
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Sweet Liberty: Movie star Elliot James refuses to have any stunt doubles when doing risky pratfalls. Ironically, there's a Jump Cut showing where Michael Caine was replaced by his stunt double in the questioned stunt. | |
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Kamen Rider Hiroshi Fujioka, the actor for Kamen Rider 1, did his own stunts... until an accident ended up breaking his leg. This was worked into the show with creating Kamen Rider 2 to temporarily replace him as the protagonist, and from then on, to prevent another similar incident, most toku heroes henceforth were portrayed by suit actors. Having said that, while toku actors usually have very few unmorphed fight scenes in the show itself (to prevent the same thing that happened to Hiroshi Fujioka), in their movies, they often have plenty, and they mostly do their own stunts there. Played straight decades later by Minami Tsukui, who plays Yoko Minato/Kamen Rider Marika in Kamen Rider Gaim. Tsukui is a stuntwoman by trade, so she does her own fight scenes out of an in-costume, serving as the suit actress for Marika. This also holds true for Tsukui's appearances in Kamen Rider Double (as the Grasshopper Woman) and Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger (as Ashy, one of Deathryuger's minions in The Movie). Another noteworthy instance came in Kamen Rider Heisei Generations: Dr. Pac-Man vs. Ex-Aid & Ghost with Legendary Riders, where professional wrestler and fan Hiroshi Tanahashi played one of the movie's villains and got to beat the crap out of Kamen Rider Drive before changing into his monster form. |
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For one particular stunt in the TV series Wonder Woman — clinging onto a helicopter in flight — Lynda Carter convinced her stunt double Jeannie Epper to let her do it instead after it became clear Epper was unconvincing. The network chewed Carter out for risking her life like that. | |
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For Mission: Impossible II he did his own rock climbing in the credits sequence. This can be argued as the start of his stunt-focused filmmaking, which solidified in Mission: Impossible III when he did a roof jump himself. | |
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As the production for A New Hope was unable to afford stunt doubles, Mark Hamill and Carrie Fisher performed the swing over the Death Star chasm themselves. | |
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The Rocketeer: Neville Sinclair doesn't have one and is shown doing a pretty elaborate swashbuckling scene. It is referenced later as Insult Backfire and a justification for his climactic showdown with the hero. | |
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Another noteworthy instance came in Kamen Rider Heisei Generations: Dr. Pac-Man vs. Ex-Aid & Ghost with Legendary Riders, where professional wrestler and fan Hiroshi Tanahashi played one of the movie's villains and got to beat the crap out of Kamen Rider Drive before changing into his monster form. | |
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A League of Their Own: The actresses playing the baseball players insisted on performing their own stunts (yes, even Madonna), meaning their injuries—like Rosie O'Donnell's knee-brace and Renee Coleman sporting a bruise on her thigh the size of a dinner plate—were real. In fact, Coleman said it took a whole year for that bruise to go away. However, the baseballs used in the film were actually tennis balls to minimize some of the risk. | |
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The film Stick It, about gymnastics in the last days of the Perfect 10 scoring system.note This is still used in college gymnastics and the developmental levels, though. Most of the supporting characters/extras ranks were filled with NCAA and elite amateur gymnasts — including Olympians Mohini Bhardwaj, Allana Slater, and eventual 2008 Olympic all-around champion Nastia Liukin — all of whom did their own stunts. Among the leading roles, Maddy Curley (Mina Hoyt), a former NCAA Division I gymnast, did her own stunts, as did Tarah Paige (Tricia Skilken), who actually is a Hollywood stuntwoman and moreover competed in the elite ranks of USA Gymnastics before heading to Hollywoodnote as Tarah Chellevold, should you be interested in YouTubing her. In fact, Tricia's lovely illusion twist on beam featured in Tarah's national championships balance beam routine at one point. | |
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In one Archie Comics comic, Archie and Reggie were movie stars — Archie was a stuntman but had to cover up the fact Reggie didn't do his own stunts. | |
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Malcolm in the Middle: Bryan Cranston did several of his own stunts. Besides the cartwheel and the headstand, Cranston did his own roller disco skating, spending all the free time he had in the week and a half he had to learn how to skate. After one of the show's writers asked jokingly whether Cranston would be willing to wear a suit of live bees, Cranston said he would, so they wrote a script around the idea ("The Bots and the Bees"). He ended up covered in ten thousand bees and only got stung once. | |
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In The Brady Bunch Hawaii episodes, Barry Williams, who played Greg, did his own surfing scene and scraped his feet on the sharp coral. | |
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Don Lockwood in Singin' in the Rain started his Hollywood career as a stunt man. Even after becoming a leading man, he still does his own fight scenes, and his escape from a mob of screaming fans over the top of a bus and into Kathy Selden's car proves he's still got all the skills. | |
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He insisted on performing the stunt in Papillon where he jumps off a cliff himself. He once said of this that it was "one of the most exhilarating experiences of my life". | |
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The actors in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon almost invariably performed their own stunts. CGI was used to remove the wires holding them up. | |
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Within the Marvel universe, Simon Williams, AKA Wonder Man, performs his own stunts, thanks to his powers essentially giving him an indestructible body in the way that he doesn't even have a physical form. | |
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In Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, he actually did hang onto the outside of a plane taking off. He did that scene eight times. | |
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In Skip Beat!, Ren Tsuraga insists on doing his own driving when filming the climactic car chase for "Dark Moon": when a toddler ignores the filming restrictions and runs into the street, Ren manages to avoid him with a driving maneuver that leaves the on-set stunt co-ordinator highly impressed. While filming "Tragic Marker" in the persona of Cain Heel, (who is both too cool and too tall for a stunt double) a stunt goes wrong from a dangerously high set piece: his co-star falls into a net set up in case of just such an accident, but Ren/Cain ends up doing a horizontal jump by kicking off the set while falling and twisting to land safely on his feet, a stunt that at least one person watching declares should have been impossible. Not to mention the classic moment when Ren and Kyoko met as children when he lands a perfect backflip out of a tree! Justified in-universe by establishing previously that Ren has an extensive background in martial arts, and as the cherished offspring of a Hollywood star, was given stunt training and driving lessons at a very early age from professional stunt workers. | |
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Even though Ken Kirzinger was a stuntman when he played Jason Voorhees in Freddy vs. Jason, director Ronny Yu and the producers prevented him from doing many of his own stunts due to him being in a lead role. | |
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Skullgirls: Inverted for the Show Within a Show Annie of the Stars. The titular Annie has no stunt doubles... because she actually is the folklore heroine her show was based on, and all her action scenes are her doing whatever it is for real. Instead, she has 'life doubles', normal girls whose purpose is to convince people that the lead character of Annie of the Stars is played by a regular child actress who ages to adulthood and is replaced in the show and not an eternally youthful superheroine. | |
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As his castmates in Power Rangers: Dino Thunder put it, there are stunt doubles and there is Jason David Frank. He did, however, become less eager to do high-risk stunts after swimming against the rapids in Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie while his stunt double just sat there happily collecting a paycheck after only doing the initial jump. | |
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Arrowverse: Due to having prior martial arts/ gymnastics training, all but the most dangerous of both Oliver Queen and Sara Lance's stunts are performed by their actors, Stephen Amell (who really does use the Salmon Ladder in real life) and Caity Lotz (who incorporates her experience as a dancer into the Canary's fight style),. | |
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Hitman (2016): Target Dino Bosco is an old-school B-movie actor who insists on doing his own stunts, even in his vastly overbudget superhero film that he's also directing. This being Hitman, it can prove to be his undoing. | |
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Doctor Who Looking at stills from the filming of the 50th anniversary episode, it seems that Matt Smith did his own stunts. Jon Pertwee, the Third Doctor, did as many of his own stunts as he possibly could, even when he had to have his spine snapped back into place afterward. |
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In Nip and Tuck, Nip does all his own stunts—he trained as a stuntman. | |
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In Lara Croft: Tomb Raider Angelina Jolie did most of her own stunts, the production crew even said that the stunt woman trying to do the pendulum swing got motion sickness while Jolie did it herself. | |
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He did some of his own stunt driving for True Lies. | |
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Mortal Kombat: The Movie has Johnny Cage as a movie action star who is getting reamed in the press claiming he falsified his martial artist credentials and everything he does is stunt doubles and camera trickery. He's motivated to join the tournament to prove himself and his Character Development centered on not allowing his ego to take over. | |
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Played straight decades later by Minami Tsukui, who plays Yoko Minato/Kamen Rider Marika in Kamen Rider Gaim. Tsukui is a stuntwoman by trade, so she does her own fight scenes out of an in-costume, serving as the suit actress for Marika. This also holds true for Tsukui's appearances in Kamen Rider Double (as the Grasshopper Woman) and Zyuden Sentai Kyoryuger (as Ashy, one of Deathryuger's minions in The Movie). | |
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He also did the scaffold scene in Don't Look Now, because the insurance for the stuntman didn't get set up in time. The wire holding Sutherland up nearly broke. | |
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The male members of the Power Rangers RPM cast were really insistent that they do as much of the stunt work as they physically could, and by the end of the season, Eka Darville was training alongside the Japanese stuntmen. He had gotten that good. Other actors with experience, like Johnny Yong Bosch, Dan Southworth, Mike Chaturantabut, and Brennan Mejia, also had opportunities to flex their skills onscreen. | |
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In Power Rangers S.P.D. A-Squad Pink Ranger was portrayed by series stuntwoman Motoko Nagino. | |
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The Rockford Files lead actor James Garner did all his own stunts; it is sometimes claimed that the series was canceled when Garner's doctor expressed concern over the possible long-term effects of the injuries he sustained on set.note He did have several knee operations during the series' run, and had both knees replaced in 2000. His passing at age 86 in 2014 was from cardiovascular disease, not likely to be related to his 1970s injuries. | |
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Josh Pais who played Raphael in the suit and also did the voice in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1990) did most of his own stunts, save for the backflips and skateboarding. | |
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In The Addams Family, stunt doubles were going to do the swordfights between Gomez and Tully, but Raúl Juliá and Dan Hedaya insisted on training and doing it entirely themselves. A double was used for Gomez's juggling scene, however. | |
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In the Liv and Maddie episode "Space-Werewolf-A-Rooney," Liv decides to forego the use of a stunt double while shooting Space Werewolves. | |
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Homestar Runner: In "stunt double," Strong Bad insists that he does all his own stunts. He's lying, of course; when he shows his scenes from the film Dangeresque II: This Time It's Not Dangeresque 1 as evidence, he has the least convincing stunt double ever: his younger brother Strong Sad (who looks nothing like Strong Bad) wearing a paper bag with Strong Bad's face crudely drawn on it. | |
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Emil Sitka was a valued member of Columbia's short subject department stock players (who supported The Three Stooges, Andy Clyde, and others) not only because of his acting ability but because of his willingness to perform his own stunts, which was a valuable skill in the shorts' fast-paced, slapstick style of comedy (the fact that the department saved money on not having a hire a stunt double didn't hurt, either). | |
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In Coco, Ernesto de la Cruz boasts that he did his own stunts in his movies. Though considering what we find out about him over the course of the movie, we probably shouldn't take him at his word. | |
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Similarly, that really is André the Giant climbing the Cliffs Of Insanity (albeit with dummies replacing Vizzini, Inigo & Buttercup). | |
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Patricia Tallman, best known for playing Lyta Alexander in Babylon 5, more often worked as a stunt artist and fight arranger. This included being the regular stunt and combat double for Nana Visitor as Major Kira in Babylon Five's rival series Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. | |
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He and Sandahl Bergman did their own stunts for Conan the Barbarian (1982), as suitable body doubles couldn't be found. | |
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Although many stunt drivers are credited for Drive (2011), Ryan Gosling did a number of stunts himself, after completing a stunt driving car crash course. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: In "Power Play", Marina Sirtis (Troi) was the sole actor to perform her own stunt during the scene where the Enterprise's away team was flung backwards due to a lightning storm. Shooting the scene took two takes, and during the second take, she flung herself back and landed hard on her tailbone, leaving her unable to walk for 3 weeks. In "Remember Me", Gates McFadden (Crusher) did her own stunts, which mostly involved throwing herself about the set as her character is trying to avoid getting sucked into a vortex. She very shortly thereafter learned that she was pregnant and had been inadvertently risking a miscarriage (fortunately, there was no harm done). |
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