Ryan Gosling says he’s had a double take his whole life
Ryan Gosling
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After the first show Scapegoat At SXSW on Tuesday, Ryan Gosling made a quick trip to Los Angeles for a special screening on Wednesday night.
He was joined at The Grove by director David Leitch and co-stars Emily Blunt, Winston Duke, Hannah Waddingham and Stephanie Hsu, as they gave audiences an early sneak peek at the film. The project stars Gosling as a stuntman who quits and returns to work when he stars in a movie (played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson) directed by his ex-wife (Blunt).
“I was on a children’s TV show called Young Hercules“I’ve had stunt doubles my whole life,” Gosling said of his long relationship with stuntmen. “There’s a sort of accepted dynamic where they come on set, do all the wonderful things, risk it all, and then disappear into the shadows and we all pretend as if they were never there. “Everyone else on set gets the credit, but there’s a kind of understanding “Undeclared they won’t,” he said, before jokingly declaring: “This ends today!”
“It took about eight stunt artists to make one,” he continued victim“And there were times when I was like, ‘Should we make a movie or rob a bank?’ Because that’s kind of the greatest bank-robbing team… It was like the Avengers or something, and a lot of them were probably Avengers, if you look at Their bios. I’ve benefited from their work and their help since I started, so I get to be part of telling their story and try to somehow reflect how important they are and how important what they do is.
One of the film’s stuntmen, Logan Holladay, was specifically recognized in the show, as he held a Guinness World Record for doing the most cannon shots in a car — hitting eight and a half turns during one scene while playing Gosling. Stunt driver. Gosling noted that in the film, “He tied me up in the car for a stunt he was about to do. Then he proceeded to do eight and a half cannon shots, which is a world record, and then he got me out of the car and patted me on the back for the stunt he had just done.” Any other movie, you wouldn’t know that, but in this movie you will.
Leitch, a former stunt actor, also noted how personal the film was for him, saying he wanted it to be “not just a celebration of action movies, but a celebration of the stunts and the people behind the scenes, the unsung heroes who are really risking their lives to bring you some of the most… The most memorable scenes in the movie, the hard work they put in and the joy they felt while doing it.
“I feel like in a different life, if I had the nerve to do this, I would want to be a stuntwoman,” Waddingham joked on stage. “I actually said that to David and (producer) Kelly (McCormick), and then they realized I could do some of that but it It was very limited, so I probably don’t have to worry about me joining them in the stunt community.”
Scapegoat It hits theaters on May 3.
