Acting and doing the stunts on the same shoot
Two lines on a call sheet, two contracts. What the double role buys in the edit and the schedule, and the three good reasons productions still split it.
Journal
Notes on the work, written when there is something worth saying.
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Do actors really do their own stunts?
The honest answer, shot by shot. What actors almost always perform, what they never perform, and how to spot a double while you are watching.
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How many stunt women work in France?
About ten a decade ago, about fifty today. The only attributed figure the profession has, what it hides, and two stunt-award errors worth correcting.
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Ground falls, stair falls, high falls: three different jobs
Three lines that look alike on a stunt profile, and three different jobs. Why the least spectacular of the falls is the one that injures the most people.
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Stunt training in Belgium: what exists, and what does not
Stunt classes in Brussels, a stunt company in Aalst, and no way to train for the trade. The route Belgian stunt performers actually take, with dates.
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Twelve days at Campus Univers Cascades
The twelve-day course is the real unit of stunt training in France, and barely described in English. What it does to a body, and what it does not give you.