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1:03

Stuff for know. In

1:05

the new film the Fall Guy

1:08

Ryan Gosling plays in out of

1:10

work stunt man recruited to return

1:12

to set to save a movie

1:14

for a first time director who

1:16

also happens to be his former

1:18

girlfriend. It's a big fun adventure

1:20

of a movie and it's got

1:22

all the makings of a summer

1:24

blockbuster. Thera beautiful movie stars, romance,

1:26

lots of action and in your

1:29

worm of a soundtrack yes you

1:31

will star Bumping Kisses I was

1:33

made for Loving You on repeat.

1:35

But it also cleverly subverts the

1:38

premise by pulling the curtain back

1:40

to get a peek into the

1:42

world of stunt performers and how

1:45

integral they are for these big,

1:47

action packed movies. We learn the

1:49

names for maneuvers we see in

1:52

car crashes like the can role,

1:54

we learn what goes into setting

1:56

a performer on fire Spoiler alert

1:59

it hurts. And how the

2:01

thumbs up gesture is the universal

2:03

sign that the stunt went Okay.

2:05

There's all kinds of high jumps,

2:07

car chases, boat jumps sites, and

2:09

we even get a trained dog

2:12

in on the action and all

2:14

of it was designed, engineered and

2:16

executed by our next guest. Chris

2:18

O'hara is a stunt man performing

2:20

and films like Fast and Furious,

2:22

Bullet Train, Iron Man. some of

2:24

my favorites is also an Assistant

2:27

director of a Stunt Coordinator and

2:29

also now. Holds the first film

2:31

credit as stunt designer for the Fall

2:33

Guy. It's Chris. Welcome to the show.

2:36

Oh. Thank you for having me. Absolutely and

2:38

listeners. Did you see the Fall Guy and

2:40

wanna ask a question or comment about the

2:43

stance? Do you have a stunt that made

2:45

an impression on you from a movie you've

2:47

seen in the past? Or do you just

2:49

want to ask Chris a question about his

2:52

works? Give us a call. Send us attacks

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so close. Watching the movie. one

3:07

of the things that struck me is

3:10

how many stunt people are needed on

3:12

a big action films like the one

3:14

that you see in the Fall Guy.

3:16

And yet this world of stance is

3:19

one that we don't see are a

3:21

lot about otherwise. To tell me, how

3:23

did you become a stunt man. I'm

3:26

I actually became a stunt man because

3:28

I'm I went to school, I'm in

3:31

Philadelphia trump University and I was a

3:33

gym or cause gymnast and so once

3:35

I got done with college ah I

3:37

felt that I never read my full

3:39

potential as a college athlete and so

3:42

I wanted to find something the kind

3:44

of keep performing, I keep competing and

3:46

so lots of college former gymnast go

3:48

to either like Cirque du Soleil or

3:50

I'm Ariel. Skiing was kind of one

3:53

that a bunch of caused him as

3:55

went to. Ah my! did the

3:57

arrow skiing route for a season and then

3:59

realized I wanted something bigger and so I

4:01

packed up my car, left the east coast

4:04

and mood Californian. that was Nineteen Ninety Five.

4:06

So twenty nine years ago. Wow, what was

4:08

it that originally made you think oh, stunts

4:10

could be in your words and figure was

4:12

it from watching movies yourself or was there

4:15

some kind of inspiration for you in your

4:17

life. Or. Stance being bigger as far

4:19

as like on the Fall Guy or oh A

4:21

in your is tucked I aerial skiing right? You

4:23

said? I? Yeah, I do want to go do

4:25

something Diggers. What was the influence in your life

4:27

that mates made you think oh hate stunts? That's

4:29

the direction I want to go. On.

4:31

I realize that being an eye and I

4:33

knew that to the guy that won the

4:35

world cup and was the best in the

4:38

world at the time and kind of saw

4:40

where his life was in saw kind of

4:42

everything it took to really kind of be

4:44

down that track to be a narrow skier

4:46

and knew that I kind of. at some

4:48

point I needed to have a career and

4:50

so I knew my coach at the time

4:52

would do stunts an arm salt Lake City

4:54

ah when he wasn't coaching the World cup

4:56

team and so I kind of follow his

4:59

lead and knew that there was in out

5:01

there. Was a movie business in. There

5:03

was something that kind of could highlight

5:05

you know attributes that I had and

5:07

skill sets that I had and so

5:09

it's just kind of taking. In all

5:11

honesty guys are by basically considered and

5:13

professional athlete so as just basically taking

5:15

one discipline of aerial skiing and transitioning

5:17

it into start work. What other kind

5:19

of training did you need to do

5:21

and where did you go for that

5:23

training once you decided hey I want

5:25

to go from being a gymnast aerials

5:27

here into specifically since. Ah

5:29

I'm I think when I moved to

5:32

California I kind it was very fortunate

5:34

to hook up with ah I'm five

5:36

guys that are very like minded like

5:38

myself and they had a very extensive

5:40

martial arts background and so me being

5:42

a gymnast I was able to pick

5:44

up a law. the martial arts aspects

5:46

really fast arm enough to basically you

5:48

know call I kind of movie school.

5:50

You know you don't have to really

5:52

be a it's a black belt in

5:54

in a particular style to really pull

5:56

it off on camera. I'm so I

5:58

taught those guys domestic. They tommy martial

6:00

arts and then allow the stuff is kind

6:02

of on the job training and kind of

6:05

learning as you go you know it first

6:07

you to start doing in our fights and

6:09

fault fight some basic falls. arm is kind

6:11

of where you're start off and then you

6:13

can start building yourself billie name for yourself

6:15

and and hopefully you'll get bigger and bigger

6:17

things as your career progress. As you know

6:20

it's interesting to hear you say that you

6:22

learn it as you go because I can

6:24

totally understand how on the job training is

6:26

important because every next on you need to

6:28

learn it to execute it. Never. Sir, what's

6:30

gonna come next? But it also seems like

6:33

there's a lot of categories of stance. I

6:35

mean, you've got fight scenes, jumping huge distances,

6:37

driving cars, just to name a few. Makes

6:39

me wonder: do most stunt performers specialized or

6:42

is it more like every one is a

6:44

jack of all trades. Ah I

6:46

think to to be. Kind

6:48

of a. A. Working stunt

6:51

guy that that. Eats. Induces

6:53

a career. I think being a jack of

6:55

all trades is really important. Ah, I'm But

6:57

when you're doing something I like fall guy

6:59

you know we're doing. Big. Iconic

7:01

things in So having like guys that

7:04

are really the best add car work

7:06

or the best that high falls you

7:08

know, having those specific disciplines and really

7:10

getting the best of the best to

7:12

to a make make that shot as

7:14

safe as possible and just you know,

7:16

hedge your bets to make sure that

7:18

it goes off without a hitch and

7:20

and so you get the best the

7:23

best for those guys. Neither jack of

7:25

all trades which is a great thing

7:27

to be, but sometimes you do need

7:29

specific dies to pull off the specific.

7:31

Stance and listeners. If you're just joining

7:33

us, we're talking a Chris O'hara the

7:35

stunt designer for It The Move new

7:38

movie The Fall Guy which is Out

7:40

and Cedars right now. We're talking about

7:42

Stance stunt designing, executing and presses history

7:44

in the stunt world in Hollywood. If

7:47

you have a question or comment about

7:49

Stance, gives us a call or send

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7:53

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So Chris the the director of the

8:11

Fall Guy is David Leitch who is

8:13

also a former stunt men and also

8:16

a friend. I understand how do you

8:18

guys first meet what do you work

8:20

on previously. Ah weiss the

8:22

I. Dave is actually one of

8:25

the guys that I mentioned. ah, I'm

8:27

was one of the first guys I

8:29

met when I moved, a Californian being

8:31

and now a really great martial artist.

8:33

And so there was six of us

8:35

that kind of spent every day together,

8:37

training and eating in and just training

8:39

more. Ah, so Dave and I have

8:41

known each other for twenty nine years.

8:43

ah I'm grew up in the business the

8:45

other one where early days been everyday together

8:48

and then are we find of like are

8:50

passive kind of taken you know our old

8:52

our own individual pass in this business ah

8:54

I'm at some point you know early on

8:56

our careers we live together. Ah,

8:59

I'm weeds you know. started off and

9:01

doing like bad Buffy the Vampire Slayer,

9:03

an Angel, and Martial Law which is

9:05

where you kind of touch your teeth

9:07

for in early stunt guys and then

9:09

had a great option to work on

9:11

those shows together. And you know as

9:13

far as being ah, I'm. In.

9:15

Austin coordinator We were together Saggy direct

9:17

I've worked underneath them arm and then

9:20

firsthand director that he's now that the

9:22

job title he's and now I'm kind

9:24

of done to movies together Hobbes and

9:26

saw Fast and Furious presents husband saw

9:29

and then The Fall Guy. When he

9:31

first told you the idea about this

9:33

film The Fall Guy and that he

9:35

wanted you to do a what was

9:38

your first reaction. Ah me

9:40

know I think it's happened a couple times where he's

9:42

had conversations on the phone and he calls me and

9:44

we talked for about twenty minutes and at the ending

9:46

as well. what he a think and I you know

9:48

I always say you had me at hello. You.

9:51

Know Four Guys is an iconic Tv

9:54

show that you know. This movie is

9:56

based off of of my childhood and

9:58

so it highlights the. The career of

10:00

a stunt men and so what better.

10:03

Movie. To wanna be involved in

10:05

as a as a stunt coordinator and

10:07

designer then the fall guy so it

10:09

was on a heavy weights to have

10:12

on our shoulders because we wanna make

10:14

sure that the you know we represent

10:16

the stump community and highlight what we

10:18

do. So ah I'm going through Edit:

10:20

it was a big big wait on

10:22

our shoulders but I think we created

10:25

something really great that that puts that

10:27

the stunt performer and I integrate light

10:29

so I think mission accomplished Yeah vote

10:31

most that the sun performer and distanced.

10:33

Themselves I mean distance. In this movie our

10:35

our Big You even broke a world record

10:37

with one of the stance was that intentional?

10:40

We. Did well. I think I'm in

10:42

that it was written by Drew Pearson

10:44

Southern. The writer wrote in the script

10:47

breaking the world record and so. I.

10:50

Don't as the way I kind of

10:52

my outlook is I'm not trying to

10:54

break world records with things as not

10:56

my goal on trying to create in

10:58

on the illusion of danger and by

11:00

minimizing the risks and the you when

11:02

we do a film so. I

11:05

didn't know if I could pull it off.

11:07

you know because I know the world records

11:09

that they were comparing it to was done

11:11

on I believe to seen around and was

11:13

a it was seven roles and actually a

11:15

kind of went downhill so it had gravity

11:17

helping and out. Ah I'm so when we

11:20

went to kind as look at locations for

11:22

our film we were gonna do it on

11:24

a beach. And. So beaches

11:26

totally slat so he didn't have

11:28

gravity helping me. Ah I'm so.

11:31

If. I didn't pull off the world

11:33

record. I at least knew that the

11:35

first can enroll ever done and selloum

11:37

was done on a movie called Mchugh

11:40

with John Wayne and so that. Can

11:42

and was done on a beach and so

11:45

if we couldn't. Break.

11:47

A World record. I knew that we could

11:49

pay homage to the the people my predecessors

11:51

in a stunt business. Can you explain quickly

11:53

what a cannon role as I'm not sure

11:55

that everybody listening what will recognize. So.

11:58

I can enroll is a the

12:00

kind of like a an air

12:03

driven i'm. Slugs. Or

12:05

plug being kind of think about like are

12:07

almost like a telephone pole. something they kind

12:09

of suits out of the bottom driven by

12:11

air. And. That basically as the

12:13

cars driving down the beach that where

12:16

we were there's a slight turn and

12:18

then we hit this button which basically

12:20

propels this pull. Down. So the

12:22

ground which lists the car up creating

12:24

they can in effect of it and

12:26

so that's kind of what I'm saying

12:28

with a cannon and when they did

12:31

am a que they did it with

12:33

ah i'm black powder sell these black

12:35

powder to kind of deploy the the

12:37

tan and or the pole. And

12:39

now I'm now use air So he is compressed

12:41

air and a kind of use that's a kind

12:43

of deploy the pole and it's like aids that

12:45

effect of a cannon rule and the the the

12:47

cars rolling He said the previous record was Casino

12:49

Royale are my favorite Bond movie by the way

12:52

as I remember this and then I saw the

12:54

Ross how many roles was A in the movie

12:56

that Libyan Seven they didn't end up and and

12:58

then for the Fall guy how many roles was

13:00

it. We. Did a and a half

13:02

eaten a half. Wow and know you had

13:04

mentioned that it's on sand as well and

13:07

it's clear that this is a real science

13:09

when you watch the behind the scenes footage.

13:11

was happy about the gravity force, the density

13:13

of the sand For instance, can you describe

13:15

the process of designing a stun? Yes,

13:18

So I think I think the misconception

13:20

about stunned performers is is it's did

13:23

just what you see in the cell

13:25

right? So it's grandiose. You see this

13:27

great crash and it's amazing. By the

13:29

lead up to that was mean else.

13:31

For months of development you know l

13:33

all the way down to choice of

13:35

car that the car was a Grand

13:37

Cherokee in a Jeep Grand Cherokee and

13:39

we chose that car because it's basically

13:41

as tall as it is wide. Soon

13:43

as something's as tall as as wide

13:46

a kind of creates a cylinder. And

13:48

so cylinders role. Arm.

13:51

So that was kind of in a week.

13:53

We specifically chose the car for that. When

13:55

we had special effects team put a cage

13:57

in the car we on the corners the

13:59

car. we kind of old that the cage

14:01

in a little bit so as the car

14:04

crashed. You know, the

14:06

corners crust which created more of

14:08

a cylinder which helped out the

14:10

role. Ah I'm We had a

14:12

lot of production support to kind

14:14

of allow us to test at

14:16

the location. Ah I'm So we

14:18

basically had to test cars and

14:20

we were able to go to

14:23

the location on the sand and.

14:25

Get information factual information from

14:28

doing testing. Ah, we knew

14:30

that. Ah, I'm the sand

14:32

was gonna play a factor in a plate

14:34

of fact in our early tests and we

14:36

didn't have all the support to kind of

14:39

yeah make the beach exactly what we needed

14:41

to do or near to be as far

14:43

as compressing the sand, rolling the sand, wedding

14:45

the sand the kind of make it as

14:47

dense as possible to help out the effort

14:49

because big fluffy sand. Creates.

14:52

The else sucks up energy right? So we

14:54

wanna try and keep the sand as hard

14:56

as possible and so when we did that

14:59

fourth that that last one that you see

15:01

that broke the record ah we really in

15:03

a we had guys on the beach from

15:05

for am. In. A laying down water.

15:08

Rolling. The beats you know they have these

15:10

rollers at have shakers and it was compact the

15:12

sand even more and they just kept rolling. it's

15:15

and wedding it's for. For. Five

15:17

hours until we didn't were actually

15:19

six hours until we actually did

15:21

the shots. Because not only does

15:23

the cat and car need to

15:26

have a great surface than vehicles

15:28

capturing. Filming. It faster, had

15:30

the best service and you're only as good

15:32

as your slowest car. So the slowest car

15:34

was actually the first car or that's the

15:36

car leading has to be set the pace

15:38

and so that was the actual camera car

15:40

filming it so that was kind of we

15:43

had to make he was the most important

15:45

one the we had to make sure the

15:47

his track was as compact as possible so

15:49

that he had the best chance because he

15:51

was basically pulling in setting the speed for

15:53

way to get into. Wow That's an enormous

15:55

amount of us design and I'm sure a

15:57

lot of mass. A lot. Of odd like

16:00

reading progressing probably go yeah that making

16:02

all of this lot there's a before

16:04

we go to break it just wanna

16:06

read attacks. We just got in from

16:08

a listener it says Zoe Bell had

16:10

a film learning to be a Son

16:12

performer with Jenny Upper who recently passed

16:14

to is Linda Carter stunt double for

16:16

Wonder Woman stun performers. Definitely need to

16:18

be recognized for their work behind and

16:20

in front of the cameras. I thoroughly

16:22

enjoyed the Fall Guy. Great start for

16:24

the summer movie season Listeners: We're talking

16:26

to Chris O'hara the stunt designer behind

16:28

the movie The Fall Guy. Which is out

16:30

in theaters. Now if you have a question about

16:33

stunt works or you have a safer it's stunt

16:35

from a movie that that has really struck you

16:37

through the years, give us a call centres the

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quick break when we get back. We'll talk more

16:48

about the new title of Stunt Designers and will

16:51

take some your calls. This is all that. This

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17:06

talking about stance in movies with Chris

17:08

O'hara the stunt designer for the new

17:10

movies The Fall Guy which is out

17:12

in theaters right now. Listeners before the

17:15

break we were talking about a world

17:17

Record stance that Chris was part of

17:19

the team that designed in this movie

17:21

and we're ready to take your calls.

17:23

If you have a stunt in a

17:25

movie that has stuck with you over

17:27

the years, or if you have a

17:29

question for Chris about being a stunt

17:31

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Chris, We've got our first call. or

17:44

it's Jessica in Montclair, Hi Jessica Welcome

17:46

to the show. high

17:49

for taking my carbs and i

17:51

wondered if chris could speak about

17:53

the dangers and risks that stunt

17:56

people face and also what protections

17:58

there are place for

18:00

them if there's like a stunt person

18:03

union or something like that. And

18:05

also, I'm sure Chris is aware

18:08

of the tragic stunt

18:10

in the last Harry Potter movie where

18:14

Daniel Radcliffe's stunt double did a

18:17

stunt and broke his neck and

18:19

was just so horrible.

18:21

And I think that was the first time

18:23

I really appreciated watching that documentary how dangerous

18:27

a profession this can be. Jessica,

18:30

thank you so much. And it's an important element.

18:32

Chris, can you talk about that a little bit,

18:34

the safety precautions that go into everything? So

18:36

stunt performers are members of the Screen

18:38

Actors Guild. So we do have a

18:40

union that we work under. As

18:43

far as, you know, stunts being

18:46

dangerous, I mean, the ultimate

18:48

goal is, you know, I've said it before,

18:50

is that we want to create

18:52

the illusion of danger by minimizing the

18:54

risks. And so, you know,

18:57

we do everything we can to

18:59

minimize those risks by, you know,

19:01

hopefully doing proper testing, having support

19:04

from production to allow us to

19:07

do the proper testing so

19:10

that we basically take baby steps and we work

19:12

it up to what you eventually see on the

19:15

screen. We

19:18

are putting ourselves in a little bit

19:20

of risks. Nobody

19:22

wants to ever get hurt. But

19:25

we do everything we can to

19:27

make that not happen. We, you

19:31

know, through testing on, like, the cannon roll, for

19:33

instance, you know, we had a cage that was

19:35

built by a special effects guy that we understood,

19:37

you know, they've done that

19:39

numerous times. That was a big safety

19:42

factor. We have, you know, seat belts

19:44

and containment

19:46

seats, pads.

19:49

We have safety's fuel cells that

19:51

keep the fuel in that kind

19:53

of, you know, contain that From

19:56

being a burn risk. Just

20:00

I it. It is a business that

20:02

looks dangerous from the outside but is

20:05

very calculated. There are those times a

20:07

things do happen but. Nobody

20:10

wants that to happen and

20:12

hopefully we. We. Tend

20:14

to just. Properly.

20:17

Ah, I'm. Test and

20:19

take the baby steps. Him to make it saw

20:21

go off without hits and Jonathan out with a

20:23

bit long winded. No, not at all. There's a

20:26

there's an enormous amount of of works at it

20:28

sounds like even before anyone steps on set to

20:30

make sure that the baby steps are taken like

20:32

you say and Jessica we really appreciate the questions

20:35

or and looks like we've got Bobby in Union

20:37

City who's got a saver. It's done from a

20:39

movie. It's Bobby. What is it? Welcome to the

20:41

So. I added morning.

20:44

Thank you for taking my calling the

20:46

morning to your guess it's I don't

20:48

know what's your guest has ever seen

20:50

this movie. It's and Nineteen

20:52

Seventy Four. Seventy Five Films starring

20:54

John Wayne as the Seattle

20:56

Police Protective and stunt I'm

20:58

going to Describe takes place

21:00

on a beach. And

21:03

John Wayne is in a car. She's being

21:05

pursued by these gangsters that want kill him.

21:08

And. Of one of the corps

21:10

is a Nineteen Seventy three Chevy

21:12

Impala. And he fired

21:14

the machine gun at the driver.

21:17

and the court does about six

21:19

or seven points and lands right

21:21

side up. On. It

21:23

all in one shot and how was done

21:25

I know was that they they didn't have

21:27

like a ramp for the card a foot

21:29

over because it takes place on a beach

21:31

so somebody got the bright idea to cut

21:33

a hole in the bottom of the car.

21:36

Put. An explosive charge and and part

21:38

of a utility pole. So at a

21:40

certain point the explosive would be triggered

21:42

and that is piece of utility pole

21:44

would go down and foot the car

21:46

if you've as anybody in in the

21:48

audience was listening it is ever seen

21:51

the movie It's the highlight of the

21:53

movie. You have to wonder how did

21:55

they do that? so I'd that's what

21:57

I just wanted to mention. Bobby Thank

21:59

you So. Much for that call Chris I

22:01

say nodding your head a little bit you familiar

22:03

with with that movie that's Done Army I mentioned

22:05

it I mentioned earlier the the name of that

22:07

movies Mchugh. With. John Wayne

22:10

and I'm That Stunt

22:12

was done by Gary

22:15

Mclarty. And. The second

22:17

you director on that movie was Ronnie

22:19

Run Dell a legendary stunt man in

22:21

his own ah I'm and that was

22:23

kind of the big inspiration for the

22:25

fall guy. Me it was. You know

22:27

we, like I said earlier like there

22:29

was written as a world record but

22:31

I wasn't sure if we could pull

22:33

off the world record. and at least

22:35

if we didn't do that I knew

22:37

was gonna pay homage to Gary Mclarty

22:39

makes you John Wayne Ronnie Run on

22:41

that first hand roll ever performed in

22:43

a movie. Listeners are talking to Chris

22:45

O'hara the stunt. Designer behind the Fall

22:47

Guy. It's a new movie that looks

22:49

at a stunt person who is working

22:51

back on the set of a cell

22:53

and it looks into all of the

22:56

enormous work that goes into making these

22:58

stunts spectacular and safe. Give us a

23:00

call if you have a question about

23:02

stance for it to one, two Four

23:04

Three Three W N Y C That's

23:06

Two, one two four three three Nine,

23:08

Six Nine to press. As we mentioned

23:10

in the intro, you have the first

23:12

ever credit as a stunt designer at

23:14

Why Was I important? And has that

23:16

title differ from a stunt coordinator. Arm,

23:19

It's it's. It's.

23:22

Very similar and but other than the

23:24

fact that people look at stunt coordinator

23:26

in a lego you coordinate the stance

23:28

won't really stunt designer is taking it

23:30

from. Nothing and turning into what

23:32

you see at the end product of this

23:34

show like in in the Fall guy we

23:37

did a been chase with these trash bins

23:39

that me know. We

23:41

kind of found that I sound on

23:43

a Director scout down Australia because in

23:45

Australia those been trucks are everywhere says

23:48

like man that would make a really

23:50

interesting. Place the

23:52

do a fight you know and

23:54

so is basically designed and developed

23:56

from just me walking around you

23:58

know. Through. through downtown

24:00

sydney and that's what ended up

24:03

in the movie like designing that whole sequence

24:05

and that whole chase went from nothing and

24:07

In the original script it was written as

24:09

something else and and we kind of turned

24:11

it into that You know the jump at

24:13

the end of the movie was literally designed

24:15

from A boat ride in sydney

24:17

harbor and I saw a bridge That

24:19

was like man We should jump that and so

24:21

then we couldn't jump that and I basically went

24:23

to google earth and I looked at You

24:26

know I looked at how big the gap was

24:28

and that's kind of how you know the 200

24:30

and the 200 foot jump was kind of Thought

24:32

about was just kind of like man Let's do

24:34

that and kind of creative and really working hand-in-hand

24:37

With the director to design the action

24:39

sequences and so the title the difference

24:41

between stunt Coordinator and

24:43

stunt designers really trying to educate

24:46

people as far as you know,

24:48

we're just not stunt guys doing these grandiose things

24:50

There's a lot of science. There's a lot of

24:52

creative You know aspects to

24:54

to what we do And so it's just

24:56

trying to educate and enlighten people to the

24:59

whole big picture of what my job really

25:01

is and having this title Is stunt designer

25:04

is just a way of of educating

25:06

those people that we are creative We

25:08

are integral to the process of making

25:11

movies and and you know This kind

25:13

of leads into a little bit of you

25:15

know with the academy awards and kind of there's been

25:17

this You know every year is like

25:20

wired why don't stunts haven't have an Oscar and

25:22

so I think this is hopefully

25:24

just one step because you know, like there's

25:26

other departments There's production designer which designs the

25:29

whole look of the movie There's a costume

25:31

design which designs all the the costumes for

25:33

the movie and all of those people get

25:35

Academy Awards and so Hopefully

25:37

having this title will enlighten people in

25:40

the academy. It's like we really are

25:42

integral to The

25:44

whole filmmaking process and we are creative and we're

25:46

not just a bunch of stunt guys just doing

25:48

stunts We are really, you know

25:50

creative to the whole film process what would

25:52

that mean to you if there was a

25:56

Award An Oscar for best

25:58

stunt Best stunt design in her. Arm

26:00

I think it would just be that. You

26:03

know, getting recognized for our art? The work

26:05

that we do, and I think it's it's.

26:07

really. For. The stumps me read it.

26:09

Just get. You. Know. and

26:12

recognize for for the F or it's

26:14

that we that we put into. The.

26:17

Effort so we put into to movie

26:19

is and really the are being taken.

26:22

Now just and being accepted by the peers

26:24

and in the film industry is kind of.

26:27

It would be amazing. Yeah, are there

26:30

any awards for a stunt performers elsewhere?

26:32

In I'm part of the you know,

26:34

Red Bull has done a really great

26:36

thing over the past. Geez, I'm in

26:39

no twenty five years. Maybe we have

26:41

something called the the Red Bull Tourists

26:43

Awards arm and actually their Rebel Source

26:46

Awards are happening this Saturday I out

26:48

here in California and that's something that's

26:50

kind of been a very i'm. Stunned.

26:53

Specific award ceremony that Rebels put

26:55

on for us every year and

26:58

they've been really great supporting our

27:00

industry. They also have the Red

27:02

Bull Tourists Foundation which is I'm

27:04

a fund that helps support injured

27:06

stump performers. I'm so Red Bulls

27:08

been really really supportive over the

27:11

years I'm about our community. You

27:13

know, we have so many calls

27:15

that unfortunately we can't get to.

27:17

There is one that I just

27:19

want to summarize here. Frank and

27:21

as now New Jersey. Says favorite

27:23

stance Zoe Bell in Death Proof Man with

27:26

a Golden Gun. When James Bond jumps over

27:28

a bridge and the car does a twists,

27:30

there are so many great stands out there.

27:33

I'm looking at the clock wrapping up here.

27:35

But Chris I just wanted set to ask

27:37

youths you know being a a stunt percent

27:39

require so many different skills. Like you said,

27:42

jack of all trades kind of Yes to

27:44

be parts professional athlete, part visionary for what

27:46

would the looks good on celts and part

27:49

just really good at being and execute er

27:51

what do you think? Really good stunt. People

27:53

have in common. I think at first

27:55

blush you the easy answer is oh it

27:57

appeared like yeah to be fearless but.

28:00

The something different for you. Know,

28:02

I think it's I think we're We're

28:04

all professional athletes. I think we we

28:06

have a common goal of making you

28:08

look amazing arm and it's and I

28:11

think everybody in the film business all

28:13

is kind of were this some. This

28:16

traveling circus is kind of. We all

28:18

have robbery like minded in in this

28:20

business and and we just want to

28:22

perform and do a great job and.

28:25

And as as Stumper former,

28:27

it's it's just be able

28:29

to take direction and and

28:31

execute the plan and die.

28:33

Again, And looks it looks amazing but

28:35

it's well lot as well, thought out

28:38

and well practiced. and. And.

28:40

Hopefully ever. the audience enjoys all of

28:42

the hard work that in Austin performers

28:44

put in to. Entertain them Yeah

28:46

and need I wanna be sure that we bring

28:48

up on the know there's all different kinds of

28:51

son performers. Of course I gender as a part

28:53

of the process and are there more stunt women

28:55

now than there used to be in the past?

28:57

What? What a sad or it comes look like.

29:00

There's. Definitely there's a ton of someone

29:02

that because there's there's actors and

29:04

actresses so I'd probably say there's

29:06

the same amount I'm now. I

29:08

don't actually have sexual numbers of

29:10

how many study know the break

29:12

as between male and female but

29:14

there's definitely you know. actors and

29:16

actresses Both you know both do

29:18

science and and and female. I'm

29:20

stumped. performers have the harder job

29:23

because they tend to be and

29:25

dresses or you know, Wardrobe.

29:27

That that doesn't allow for the the

29:29

you know the pads to cover stuff

29:31

and so in other stuff woman that

29:34

that perform my hat's off to them

29:36

because they are. They. Are super

29:38

tough, super calculated and and they are

29:40

amazing. May as in performers folks. We've

29:42

been talking so Chris O'hara the stunt

29:45

designer behind the new film the Fall

29:47

Guy is out in Cedars now Chris

29:49

holding the title of the first time

29:51

for it stunk designer we've been talking

29:54

about Stance. Thank you all so much

29:56

for your calls and Chris! Thank you

29:58

so much for joy. The And for your work

30:00

on this movie. Oh thank you so much for

30:02

have me really really appreciate it.