After playing “Kenergy” in Barbie, actor Ryan Gosling turns the spotlight on people whose job it is to shine on the big screen but, at the same time, remain invisible in “The Stuntman.”
The film is inspired by the popular 1980s television series “The Hard Way,” with Gosling playing the role of Colt Seavers, one of Hollywood’s top stuntmen in trouble after an on-set accident.
An ambitious producer (Hannah Waddingham) manages to bring Colt out of self-imposed isolation following his injury to save the directorial debut of the love of his life, Jody (Emily Blunt), following the passing of the film’s protagonist, Tom Ryder ( Aaron Taylor).
Life begins to imitate art when Colt begins tracking down the missing star and finds himself in the middle of a criminal plot. The stuntman must do his best, on and off screen, to save Jody’s film and himself.
“I’ve benefited from stunt work my whole career. They come in, take all the beating for you and don’t take the credit. This all ends now. I hope the whole conversation is different after this film,” he said. said Gosling, at the premiere held in London this Monday.
“It’s absolutely a love letter to stuntmen and the magic of what they create in movies. It’s a love letter to film crews and cinema,” Blunt added.
Filmed in Sydney, Australia, “The Stuntman” is directed by David Leitch, former stuntman for stars such as Brad Pitt and Matt Damon and director of “Bullet Train”, “Deadpool 2” and “Atomic Blonde”.
Many of his daring action scenes were filmed with real stunts and during filming, Gosling’s stunt double, Logan Holladay, set world records for the most stunts in a car launching into the air after a explosion.
The classic stunt uses a device placed underneath a car that pushes it through a series of flips at a set speed. Holladay’s 8.5 beat Adam Kirley’s record of 7 from 2006 in “007: Casino Royale.”
“It was mandatory to do some classic stunts and make them as wide as possible,” Leitch said. “The record was written in the script. We put it in the script to set the challenge, so that the stunt team would find a way to make it happen, and I think they succeeded,” said Letich, 48.
Stunt coordinator Chris O’Hara was credited as “stunt designer” on the project, in what the creators called an industry first and an acknowledgment of the multifaceted nature of his work.
“I hope this shows the Academy and that maybe one day we can compete for an Oscar, just like every other department head in the industry,” O’Hara said.
“The backbone of the industry is the action film. It is the film that has the most international reach. It is time they are celebrated for their contribution,” added actor Winston Duke.
“The Stunt” is scheduled for global release on April 24.
Source: Terra
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