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The Team That Crammed Every Stunt Imaginable Into The Fall Guy
“One of the greatest compliments we got was when the visual-effects supervisor said, ‘I don’t know why I’m here!’”
In the film, Ryan Gosling takes on the role of stuntman Colt Seavers, who when we first meet him is at the top of his profession, doubling for massive movie star Tom Ryder (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and madly in love with Jody Moreno (Emily Blunt), a camera assistant and aspiring director. To achieve the finished chase and fight, the stunt team built two separate rigs and outfitted them with a variety of straps, latches, and pulleys to keep the performers safe inside the bins and on the vehicles and to make sure they didn’t spill out onto the road while careening through Sydney. They could only film these exterior street stunts on weekends and were limited in terms of where they could do so, which prompted another crucial but charming development to the bin-truck fight: It’s now intercut with Jody belting out the Phil Collins classic “Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now),” because she’s sad that Colt, busy getting his ass kicked, is missing a karaoke night at the local bar.
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