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Jason Statham Doesn’t Want His Characters to Get Punched
Stuntman Eddie J. Fernandez, who’s worked with Statham on seven movies, breaks down the nuts and bolts of a fight scene with the star.
The veteran stunt performer/martial artist/actor/action choreographer’s career spans some 300 movies, including Jurassic World, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, No Country for Old Men, Batman Begins, and even the 2004 Best Picture Oscar winner Crash. We see drug dealers, outlaw bikers, and Russian mobsters succumb to the action hero’s superior foot-fist way — Fernandez among them, in a bit part as a thug who gets his ass kicked by Statham at a downtown construction jobsite. Which is all the more self-flagellating when you consider that Fernandez also choreographed the stunts and fighting: conjuring action sequences, plotting every beat of them out with a team using previsualization software, further refining the scenes with Statham and Ayer in preproduction, and making last-minute tweaks before cameras rolled.
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