After premiering The Fall Man at SXSW on Tuesday, Ryan Gosling made a fast journey to Los Angeles for a unique screening on Wednesday evening.
He was signed up with at The Grove by supervisor David Leitch and co-stars Emily Blunt, Winston Battle Each Other, Hannah Waddingham and Stephanie Hsu, as they provided the group a very early preview of the movie. The task celebrities Gosling as a stuntman that left business and is withdrawed in when the lead of a flick (played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson) that is guided by his ex lover (Blunt) goes missing out on.
“I was on a kid’s action TV show called Young Hercules, and I’ve basically had a stunt double my whole life,” Gosling stated of his long time connection with stuntmen. “There’s this sort of accepted dynamic where they come on set, they do all the cool stuff, they risk everything, and then they disappear into the shadows and we all pretend as if they were never there. Everyone else on set gets credit, but there’s kind of unspoken understanding that they won’t,” prior to amusingly stating,“That ends today!”
He proceeded,“It took like eight stunt performers to make one Fall Guy, and there were times when I was like, ‘Should we be making a movie or robbing a bank? Because this is kind of the greatest bank-robbing team’… it was like the Avengers or something, and a lot of them probably were the Avengers, if you look at their CVs. I’ve benefitted from their work and their help since I started, so to be a part of telling their story and in some small way trying to reflect how vital they are and how important what they do is.”
Among the movie’s particular stuntmen, Logan Holladay, was particularly acknowledged at the screening, as he existed with a Guinness Globe Document title for doing one of the most cannon rolls in a cars and truck– getting to 8 and a half rolls throughout one scene while carrying out as Gosling’s stunt vehicle driver. Gosling kept in mind that in the movie, “He’s buckling me into a car for a stunt he’s about to do. And then he goes on to do eight and a half cannon rolls, which is a world record, and then he pulls me out of the car and pats me on the back for the stunt that he just did. In any other movie, you wouldn’t know that, but in this movie you do.”
Leitch, a previous stunt entertainer himself, additionally kept in mind just how individual the flick is for him, stating he desired it to be“not just a celebration of action films but a celebration of the stunts and stunt people behind the scenes, the unsung heroes who really do risk their lives to bring you some of the most memorable sequences in film, and the hard work they put in and the joy they have doing it.”
Waddingham joked on phase,“I feel like in a different life, if I actually had balls to do it, I would have quite liked to have been a stuntwoman. I actually said this to David and [producer] Kelly [McCormick], and then they realized that I could do a bit of it but it was quite limited, and so the stunt community probably don’t have to worry about me joining them.”
The Fall Man strikes movie theaters Might 3.