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31 Crazy Hollywood Stunts and the People Who Pull Them Off

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31 Crazy Hollywood Stunts and the People Who Pull Them Off

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Things exploding? People jumping over stuff? Who doesn’t love to see dangerous things happening on the big screen? Not only are the stunts themselves incredible, but the people who perform them have to be some of the most certified badasses on the planet. Here are some of our favorites…

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Teyonah Parris’ WandaVision Stunt Double

TEYONAH PARRIS' WANDAVISION STUNT DOUBLE... CHERYL LEWIS. ON APPROACHING HER STUNT PERFORMANCES: It might sound funny but my father was a mathematician and great at physics and I love math and physics and computer science... We would watch action shows and break it down to the physics of it. It's about logic and physics and figuring things out. OTHER NOTABLE MOVIES/TV SHOWS: Lovecraft Country, Wonder Woman 1984, Watchmen series, Gotham. CRACKED.COM — Source: And Now, A Tribute To 16 Gnarly Stunt Doubles

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CHRIS EVANS' ENTIRE STUNT TEAM IN SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE-WORLD. US When Scott is fighting Lucas Lee's stunt team, he's fighting all the stuntmen who doubles for Chris Evans. SAID DIRECTOR EDGAR WRIGHT: They are his stunt guys. And the joke is that, as they fan out, they look less and less like Chris Evans. So the main one looks very much like Chris Evans, two and three are pretty good, five, six and seven, not so good. CRACKED.COM — Source: And Now, A Tribute To 16 Gnarly Stunt Doubles

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Tomb Raider Stunt Double

ALICIA VIKANDER'S TOMB RAIDER STUNT DOUBLE... FLEUR VAN EEDEN. SCARIEST STUNT: I was doubling on a Bollywood movie shot on a moving train in Swakopmund (Namibia). Dressed as a ninja, I had to do fight scenes on a train going 60kms/hr and then jump onto a horse. I was emotional afterwards. OTHER NOTABLE MOVIES/TV SHOWS: Mad Max: Fury Road, Black Sails, Claire Danes' stunt double in Homeland. CRACKED.COM — Source: And Now, A Tribute To 16 Gnarly Stunt Doubles

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Stunts in 'Iron Man'

ROBERT DOWNEY JR.'S IRON MAN STUNT DOUBLE... GLENN FOSTER. NOTABLE MOVIES/TV SHOWS: Breaking Bad, Casino Royale, Sherlock Holmes, The Dark Knight, every Marvel movie featuring Iron Man since Iron Man 2. MOST DAREDEVIL STUNT: For Iron Man 3, we were jumping off cranes. Those cranes were 300-, maybe 400-feet high. Launching yourself off the side of those was interesting. Definite leaps of faith, especially since it was all shot at night. You're leaping into darkness and trusting that the various cables you're attached to are going to do what they're supposed to. GRACKED.COM — Source: And Now, A Tribute To 16 Gnarly Stunt Doubles

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Crank

31 Crazy Hollywood Stunts and the People Who Pull Them Off — Source: 16 Movie Stunts That Are Amazing (Or Reckless)

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CHRIS HEMSWORTH'S THOR STUNT DOUBLE... BOBBY HOLLAND HANTON, OTHER NOTABLE MOVIES/TV SHOWS: The Dark Knight Rises, Inception, Skyfall. BADASS STUNTS: My first-ever stunt on a film set was for Quantum of Solace, during a night shoot at 2 a.m. in Colón, Panama. I was jumping from one balcony to another with no safety cables, three stories up...For Game of Thrones, we were filming in Seville and I was torched with a real flamethrower, aka Khaleesi's dragons. It was pretty full-on. CRACKED.COM — Source: And Now, A Tribute To 16 Gnarly Stunt Doubles

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Stunt Doubles

KEIRA KNIGHTLEY'S PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN STUNT DOUBLE... LISA HOYLE. MOST DANGEROUS STUNT: I did a 93-foot fall for the Charlie's Angels movie. It ended up on the cutting room floor, but it was the highest high fall I've done. NOTABLE MOVIES/.TV SHOWS: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, American Horror Story, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, Emma Stone's stunt double in Zombieland. CRACKED.COM — Source: And Now, A Tribute To 16 Gnarly Stunt Doubles

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Chris Evans’ Captain America Stunt Double

CHRIS EVANS' CAPTAIN AMERICA STUNT DOUBLE... DANIEL HARGRAVE. NOTABLE MOVIES: Infinity War, Endgame, Atomic Blonde, Logan MOST NERVE-WRACKING_ SCENE: When we were filming the big Wakanda charge in Infinity War, I was on a wire holding me up and pulling me by my chest to make it look like I was running really fast. But the hard part was staying on my feet... I miscalculated my steps, stubbed my toe, and pulled my hamstring. I couldn't keep up with the winch, so I fell - and got dragged face-first for about 20 yards, passing by all these superheroes. GRACKED.COM — Source: And Now, A Tribute To 16 Gnarly Stunt Doubles

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CHRIS PRATT'S STAR-LORD STUNT DOUBLE... CHRIS ROMRELL. - ON DOING STUNTS WITH STAR-LORD'S MASK: The mask is horrendous. Chris Pratt's mask has a little fan in there and a little vent, so he gets air in. But they don't spend that much money on me, so the mask was clamped around my head like a Power Rangers mask with just these tiny little slits for breathing. And once you start moving in it and doing action stuff, you lose all the oxygen in there real quick. OTHER NOTABLE MOVIES: Avengers: Infinity War, Creed II, Avengers: Endgame GRACKED.COM — Source: And Now, A Tribute To 16 Gnarly Stunt Doubles

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31 Crazy Hollywood Stunts and the People Who Pull Them Off — Source: 16 Movie Stunts That Are Amazing (Or Reckless)

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Mad Max

MAD MAX: FURY ROAD featured an exciting scene where warriors use poles to swing down from one vehicle to another. At first, George Miller wanted to use CGI to do the scene for safety reasons. However, the stunt coordinator convinced him that it could be done without it. It was achieved by crafting specially engineered poles, and with stuntmen that were trained by a Cirque de Soleil performer for 2 months. CRACKED.COM — Source: 16 Movie Stunts That Are Amazing (Or Reckless)

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Lost

31 Crazy Hollywood Stunts and the People Who Pull Them Off — Source: 16 Movie Stunts That Are Amazing (Or Reckless)

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31 Crazy Hollywood Stunts and the People Who Pull Them Off — Source: 16 Movie Stunts That Are Amazing (Or Reckless)

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31 Crazy Hollywood Stunts and the People Who Pull Them Off — Source: 16 Movie Stunts That Are Amazing (Or Reckless)

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The Rock’s Stunt Double

CRACKED.COM DWAYNE THE ROCK JOHNSON'S STUNT DOUBLE... TANOAI REED. NOTABLE MOVIES: Has been Johnson's double in every movie since Scorpion King in 2002. Non-Johnson movies include Smokin' Aces, Gamer, Star-Trek Into Darkness. SCARIEST INJURY CHE'S HAD A LOT): I tore my arm open in F7 when it went through a big piece of glass while I was doing a fight with Jason Statham's stunt double. I had to have emergency surgery for that one because there was shrapnel in my arm...I asked what the worst-case scenario was, and he said, 'I have to reattach all the blood vessels, tendons, ligaments. Worst-case scenario — Source: And Now, A Tribute To 16 Gnarly Stunt Doubles

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Jennifer Lawrence

GRACKED.COM JENNIFER LAWRENCE'S DARK PHOENIX STUNT DOUBLE... JANENE CARLETON. OTHER NOTABLE MOVIES: Total Recall, Salt, Deadpool ON BEING A STUNTWOMAN: We're doing stuff in heels, and in skirts where you can't wear knee pads. Guys are in big coats, and wearing football pads underneath. We get thrown around in skinny jeans. We can' 't hide anything, and almost never get to wear pads. — Source: And Now, A Tribute To 16 Gnarly Stunt Doubles

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The Hulk

MARK RUFFALO'S HULK STUNT DOUBLE... LOYD BATEMAN. ON DOING STUNTS WITH MOTION-CAPTURE TECHNOLOGY: INSPIRATION On the one hand, you can wear as much padding as you wanted. You could be as safe as you needed. Sometimes, though, with all the extra gear on-like height offsets or these large chunks of foam that you'd have to wear in order to make parts of your body the correct size-that makes. it.tricky. NOTABLE MOVIES: Watchmen, Venom, Jennifer's Body, Endgame, Infinity War CRACKED.COM — Source: And Now, A Tribute To 16 Gnarly Stunt Doubles

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Andrew Garfield’s Spider-Man Stunt Double

Source: And Now, A Tribute To 16 Gnarly Stunt Doubles

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Scarlett Johansson’s Black Widow Stunt Double

SCARLETT JOHANNSON'S BLACK WIDOW STUNT DOUBLE... HEIDI MONEYMAKER. NOTABLE MOVIES: All the movies in which Black Widow appears,Sucker Punch,The Hunger Games movies, the John Wick movies. MOST MEMORABLE STUNT TO DATE: The reshoots for Black Widow. I...talked to Scarlett and I said, 'Hey, are you doing more of these Black Widow movies?' She goes, 'I don't know.' I said, 'Just wondering, am I about to go out there and do my last stunt as Black Widow?' She goes, 'Maybe?' It wasn't even a big stunt. I was jumping 16 or 17 feet off the platform and rolling and crashing, but — Source: And Now, A Tribute To 16 Gnarly Stunt Doubles

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31 Crazy Hollywood Stunts and the People Who Pull Them Off — Source: 16 Movie Stunts That Are Amazing (Or Reckless)

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31 Crazy Hollywood Stunts and the People Who Pull Them Off — Source: 16 Movie Stunts That Are Amazing (Or Reckless)

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Speed

31 Crazy Hollywood Stunts and the People Who Pull Them Off — Source: 16 Movie Stunts That Are Amazing (Or Reckless)

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The Dark Knight Rises

31 Crazy Hollywood Stunts and the People Who Pull Them Off — Source: 16 Movie Stunts That Are Amazing (Or Reckless)

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31 Crazy Hollywood Stunts and the People Who Pull Them Off — Source: 16 Movie Stunts That Are Amazing (Or Reckless)

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Kill Bill

UMA THURMAN'S THE BRIDE STUNT DOUBLE... ZOË BELL. BIGGEST REGRET: Not being on set the day Uma Thurman crashed her car in Kill Bill. Bell wasn't there because she was recovering from an injury. i was angry I wasn't on set, because I get protective of the people I'm doubling. OTHER NOTABLE MOVIES: Xena: Warrior Princess, Iron Man 3, Thor: Ragnarok, and many of Tarantino's movies (Zoë rides the car hood in Death Proof). CRACKED.COM — Source: And Now, A Tribute To 16 Gnarly Stunt Doubles

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ROSA SALAZAR'S ALITA: BATTLE ANGEL STUNT DOUBLE... THEKLA-HUTYROVA., OTHER NOTABLE MOVIES/TV SHOWS: Deadpool 2, Logan, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. FAVORITE PROJECT: Alita: Battle Angel! I got to be one of the doubles and it's just such a great story and message (she's a little badass!) and I relate to the main character a lot. I have a big poster of the movie in my apartment and I am very proud to have been a part of the movie. CRACKED.COM — Source: And Now, A Tribute To 16 Gnarly Stunt Doubles

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31 Crazy Hollywood Stunts and the People Who Pull Them Off — Source: 16 Movie Stunts That Are Amazing (Or Reckless)

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31 Crazy Hollywood Stunts and the People Who Pull Them Off — Source: 16 Movie Stunts That Are Amazing (Or Reckless)

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31 Crazy Hollywood Stunts and the People Who Pull Them Off — Source: 16 Movie Stunts That Are Amazing (Or Reckless)

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31 Crazy Hollywood Stunts and the People Who Pull Them Off — Source: 16 Movie Stunts That Are Amazing (Or Reckless)

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31 Crazy Hollywood Stunts and the People Who Pull Them Off — Source: 16 Movie Stunts That Are Amazing (Or Reckless)

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