Do you do your own stunts?

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Or are you a little gurly-man?

― Joe, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

I'm just girlie.

― rosemary, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

my stunts do me.

― ethan, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My stunts do themselves. Mind you, they leave a hell of a mess.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

BAN THIS SICK STUNT

― electric sound of jim, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

i am the stunt double. so i do my own and everyone elses.

― di, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

"i do my own stunts i smoke my own blunts i'm more candid than Allen Funt(s)" - Lawrence Kansas, 3/16/2002

― lawrence kansas, Saturday, 16 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

My stunts are cunning.

― nickn, Sunday, 17 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-four years ago)

eleven months pass...

Reviving this one for just a second...I originally posted this, because while I realize this phrase has always been at heart a marketing tool, I find it hilarious the way it has become practically REQUIRED to say nowadays. Every Hollywood actor/actress just HAS to make sure to get it in somewhere during the interview for their latest movie, and I've even seen it applied retrospectively in movies that are decades old as some sort of Badge of Honor...people just have to get it in.

My question is...does it actually work? Does it make the actor/actress more appealing in your eyes, or do they just come off that more goofy and full of themselves? Does it depend on the stunt? Does it depend on the actor saying it (e.g., Robert De Niro in The Deer Hunter vs. Catherine Zeta Jones in that movie with Sean Connery)?

And how come nobody ever says "Do my own stunts? Ha ha ha...no, that's why we have stuntmen, dear" (the closest I have been able to find was in the Director's Commentary for Diamonds are Forever, where the director says something like "Thank God Sean Connery isn't one of those idiots who insists on doing his own stunts."

― Joe (Joe), Sunday, 23 February 2003 16:12 (twenty-three years ago)

The only benefit, I think, is that if the actor does their own stunts it increases the director's options - you don't have to choose your shots with hiding the substitute in mind.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 23 February 2003 16:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Jackie Chan does his own stunts. Everybody else is an asshole.

― Millar (Millar), Sunday, 23 February 2003 16:24 (twenty-three years ago)

that is usually my butt not kylie's

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 23 February 2003 16:25 (twenty-three years ago)

You are most pert.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 23 February 2003 16:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Being a stunt arse must be a great job.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 23 February 2003 16:27 (twenty-three years ago)

surely it is why i am so hated on ILM!!??

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 23 February 2003 16:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Wuv.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 23 February 2003 16:31 (twenty-three years ago)

I do my own struts. Or did when I had a car.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Sunday, 23 February 2003 16:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Based on my exp. working on a big-budget action film and a long running action tv series, even when the actors say they do their own stunts, what the really means (at best) is that they did the easy stunts. They would simply not be allowed, in most cases, nor would they be willing, to do what stunt men do.

― Skottie, Sunday, 23 February 2003 17:49 (twenty-three years ago)

...and without a condom! Bringing "sexual" and "intercourse" together again.

― I'M NOT YOUR UNCLE FRANK, Sunday, 23 February 2003 17:50 (twenty-three years ago)

that time i bust my face up... i took that hit for real, yo.

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 24 February 2003 12:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Hey does anywhere know where you can get cheap fat suits in London and also cheap skateboards?

(Yes we did watch a LOT of Jackass last night)

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 24 February 2003 12:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Bam's fat suit is simply bubble wrap

cheap skateboards will snap for no reason, get a decent one and learn to love it.

― g-kit (g-kit), Monday, 24 February 2003 12:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I have a body double like Julia Roberts did for Pretty Woman. I'm sure all my male conquests would be most upset if they knew this.

Oh damn.

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 24 February 2003 12:45 (twenty-three years ago)

For someone like Tom Cruise to say "Oh yeah, and in Mission Impossible 2 I did all my own stunts," I have visions of really, really frustrated and exhausted film crews getting sick of this primadonna fucking up the same stunt over and over again, when a real stunt professional could get it done in one or two takes.

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 24 February 2003 12:51 (twenty-three years ago)

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