The Fall Guy honors the profession of stunt people behind the scenes of major Hollywood blockbusters. Of course, a lot of stunt doubles were also used for David Leitch’s action hit – not least for lead actor Ryan Gosling, who had to be represented by a professional for various difficult and dangerous scenes.
In fact, the Barbie star wanted to know it herself for one or two stunts. According to NPR, Gosling himself surfed on a metal plate being pulled by a truck and also appeared in front of the camera during a fight scene in a rotating garbage can. At a particularly dangerous stunt However, his partner Eva Mendes pulled the ripcord.
Ryan Gosling wasn’t allowed to burn in action blockbuster The Fall Guy
As The Fall Guy producer Kelly McCormick told The LA Times, Eva Mendes didn’t want to subject her husband to a particular stunt, even though Ryan Gosling was extremely committed:
Ryan’s afraid of heights, but he was like, ‘The movie’s called The Fall Guy, I have to do that.’ He told me that his wife [Eva Mendes] didn’t want to that we set it on fire.
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Ryan Gosling in The Fall Guy
Gosling and Mendes starred together in The Place Beyond the Pines in 2012 and married in 2022. As The Fall Guy star recently told the Wall Street Journal, he makes all his decisions“with my family first in mind”. So it’s not surprising that Gosling in this one tricky situation listened to his life partner. Instead, he was represented by doubles Logan Holladay, Justin Eaton, Troy Brown and Ben Jenkin for various stunts.
Ryan Gosling advocates for stunt people behind the scenes – including in The Fall Guy
Gosling has been interested in one day playing a stuntman like in The Fall Guy since he was a teenager. As he explained at a screening of the action hit (via Variety ), he has respect for this important and dangerous profession that is far too often overlooked:
I’ve had stunt doubles most of my life. And there’s this accepted dynamic that they come on set, do all the cool stuff, risk it all, and then again disappear into the shadows and we all act as if they were never there. And everyone else gets the credit for it and there’s this unspoken understanding that they don’t get it. Well, that ends today!
Various voices in Hollywood have been campaigning for this for several years Stunts as a profession at the Oscars be acknowledged. After the Academy recently announced that casting directors will be considered for the awards starting in 2026, hopes for this are now greater than ever.