Inside the World of Hollywood Stunt Work: Intimate Conversation with Preston Corbell

In this video, you'll get an intimate conversation with Preston Corbell, one of Hollywood's top stunt performers. Preston will discuss his career in stunt work, from his early days as a stuntman to his time working on the biggest blockbusters in Hollywood.

Episode Transcript

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Have you found over the twenty yearsspan that safety has improved where you can
minimize some of these injuries. Imean, obviously the Marvel thing is more
recent, so maybe not. Wellso a lot of people, Well the
number one thing is a lot ofpeople think we are a joinaline junkies,
and we're not. We're just tryingnot to get injured. We're trying to

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do the best job and possibly canand get through it and be able to
walk away at the end of theday. So a Joinaline's not really factored
into it. You're really focused andyou're really serious about getting a stunt done.
But I think it's the safest placeto do a stunt is a big
budget film movie set. I mean, you got the best people there.
You've got the best paramedics, yougot the best stunt coordinator, you got

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the best in the business surrounding you. So if something's gonna go wrong,
it's gonna be probably a frisk accident, but you got you got the best.
So if you've got to do something, that's where you want to do
it, it's I don't I thinka lot I did a lot of practical
stunts earlier in my career. Soif you get hit by a car,
and getting hit by a car andyou know, if you're on fire,
you're actually on fire and stuff likethat in the old eighties Jason movies and

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they're actually acting out the stunts thatthey're doing and performing. And now like
the Marble Show I did, it'sa lot of green screen, it's a
lot of wire work, so it'sso different and it's a whole new dynamic
when you put in wire work andgreen screen and visual effects and everything.
So I think the stunt coordinators andsafety have been great forever. I mean

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they've been great for decades and theyreally are good at what they do.
And I think now there's so muchnew stuff that you know, coordinators and
safety protocol and everything's trying to catchup. But like I said it,
it's the best place to perform stuntsbecause you got you got the best in
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It's our guest, and our guestis a stunt man. I believe

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he currently resides in Houston, Texas, but he's done a lot of work
in LA and on various Hollywood filmsdoing stunt work. And I'm very excited
to kind of chat with him andfind out the ins and out. So
what a stunt man does, howdoes he deal with injuries? Is there
secure you know, things safety issuesthat they need to consider. Y'all.
Are they just out their partying andhaving a good time. Let's let's find

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out and chat with this guy andhe'll, I'm sure let us know.
So please welcome Preston Corbell to theshow. What's up? I've actually been
really looking forward to the show.Oh no, I'm glad. Yeah,
I'm glad you to take the timeto actually chat. That's awesome too.
So and then thanks for reaching out. I love it when I get the
rat and things coming people red messagingme going hey, I'd like to be

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in the show. I'm just haveyou. Have you watched the show?
You sure I've watched a show.I'm a fan. I actually watched it.
Well, I appreciate that idea.Yeah, so thank thanks again for
coming on. Yeah, so tellme, like, I know, you've
been doing stunts for quite a whileand I've been watching some of your your

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demble reels and things like that,and of course you don't just do stunt
work. You've done some actual actingas well. It seems like a natural
transition to begin with, and I'mjust kind of wondering how that all began,
what drove you to actually do thisman. I started doing stunt and
I was sixteen, but I kindof I grew up in Newport Beach,

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California, and I was a basketballplayer. I had a basketball in my
hands since I was three years old, and I was like my life goal,
that was what I was going todo for the rest of my life.
And then I went I was goodin high school and then was able
to go to San Diego State playin their summer league and played D one
and I were up with my achilles. So that kind of changed a lot
of things and made me sit backand go, what can I do.

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I have this athletic ability, butthere's no way I can continue a basketball
career with the rubhrit achilles. AndI was invited onto a set and I
started working on Cavin Fever Ruino nineone one. Then I got a series
regular gig on One Shot Hill whereI was the stop double and photo double
for Chad Michael Murray look at Scott, and then I kind of rolled into

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eastbounding down Danny McBride, the belovedKenny Powers and then just a long career
and I had twenty years, sosixteen to thirty six, I'm thirty eight
now, so two years removed.But my body's beat up and everything.
But it's it's great stories to tell. It's great memories, and I couldn't
be happier and excited for the future. But I just I love everything I've

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done. I'm very proud of it, and as it should be, like
a you know, I've known afew stunt people as well. I know
what they go through. So yeah, kudos to you guys. That's all
I gotta see. Going to nightReno nine one one. I've loved that
show, by the way, andonce I realized that you've been on it,

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I've realized I need to go backand rewatch it so I can try
and find you. Now, maybeyou can tell me a little bit of
the episodes you were in, whatyou maybe what your involvement was. So
I was I was early. Iwas five four or five, so early
Reno nine one one. If peopleremember that back far back. Thank YouTube
came around in two thousand and five, so I was actually in Reno before

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YouTube was around. Makes me old, but that's cool. Reno. A
fun fact about Reno is a lotof it is ad libbed, and a
lot of people don't know that buta lot of it is they started as
a comedy. True, I hada show before that, and then that
Core came over and did Reno nineone one, and so much of it's
ad limb, which makes so muchfun on set, and it really makes
it more joyous. And it wasa great opportunity for me to learn how

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to do stunts. If you've everseen a show, you know how goofy
it is. But you know alot of people get hit by cars and
roll around and all kinds of crazystuff. So it's a great place to
in a lot of different types ofstunts quickly. Okay, and what was
the kind of the first stunt youdid on the show that you recall?
I did like an adrenaline guy,So when I was acting, I did

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a character naming the Adrenaline Guy.But that's kind of where I mainly got
car stunts done on like One TreeHill, but I was introduced to them
in Reno nine one one, justkind of more simple effect of how to
roll on a car, how toget hit by a car, and how
to do that precautionary, so it'skind of entry steps. And then when
I went into One Tree Hill,we got more intense with car scenes,

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but a lot of times it's allabout mathematics and knowing exactly when to move
and when lift your leg and whenthe roll and all those little bitty decisions
you make can really affect your career, your longevity of not getting injured.
And if we get injured, wedon't make money. So our number one
goal is to not get injured.Yeah, and I'm kind of curious what

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your thoughts or what you've seen inyour experience when it does come to that,
if there is an injury, doyou find that a lot of stunt
people will just work through it becausewell, they need the money, or
how do you like or they prettyspecifically to you, but just in general,
how do you see folks in yourindustry handling that. It's it's part

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of what you sign up for,but it's I mean, if you're a
stunt man, it's part of youridentity. So you're going to you're going
to get injured, and you're tryingto get as least injured as possible,
but they're gonna happen, and youknow, throughout your career you're gonna something's
gonna hurt all the time. Andwhen something hurts, and then a new
thing that she gets injured. Allof a sudden, you forget the old
thing, and it's kind of you'reconstantly moving and a forward progression of not

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trying to get injured again, butsomethings are starting. It's hurting every day
I got. I mean, Igot all kinds of injuries all over my
body. I mean, I've brokenall kinds of bones, town all kinds
of muscles. I have a reallybad back injury from my Marvel show that
I did, And they're just partof the game. But it's kind of
like basketball how it used to bein the seventies and eighties, where you

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had an injury and you fought throughit and you wanted you wanted to get
to those playoffs, want to getthe championships. And now you see a
lot of players that's fifty games ayear, and it's kind of like it's
a little more lack of days agoal. So it's in the mindset of
a stuff man to be tough.That's what you're there for, that's what
you're being paid for, is toget the job done and not want about
injuries, which again can decrease youlongevity. So in that span of twenty

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years, how many times would yousay you were injured to a point where
you're like, Okay, I justcan't do this. I had a really
good run when I hit about thirtysix, which was about nineteen twenty years
for me, my body just it. I just kept getting injured and major
injury after major injury, and Icouldn't do it anymore. But I mean,
outside of the rough foot achilles,I've broken like my left foot twice,

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I broken my right foot once.I've torn my pack. The back
injury, I had had a lotof vertebrae and then it toward the upper
part of my back muscles. Itwas a wire work and it got retracted
and in between scenes and I wasn'tprepared for that, so I was really
loose and I slammed on my lefthip and just jacked up my back,

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which I feel every day. ButI mean, I've had bicepar repair,
all kinds of broken hands or brokenfingers, wrists, toes, and I
could go on and on, andthey're just the badges of bonner. You
know, there's nothing to complain about. And when you get done, you're
definitely gonna hurt. You're definitely gonnaremember that, but let's something to be
proud of, so for sure.Yeah. Yeah, And have you found

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over the twenty years span that safetyhas improved where you can minimize some of
these injuries. I mean, obviouslythe Marvel thing was more recent, so
maybe not. Well so a lotof people, Well the number one thing
is a lot of people think weare drawn on the junkies, and we're
not. We're just trying not toget injured. We're trying to do the

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best job and possibly can and getthrough it and be able to walk away
at the end of the day.So Adjoynaline's not really factored into it.
You're really focused and you're really seriousabout getting a stunt done. But I
think it's the safest place to doa stunt is a big budget film movies
set. I mean, you gotthe best people there, you got the
best paramedics, you got the beststunt coordinator, you got the best in

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the business surrounding you. So ifsomething's gonna go wrong, it's gonna be
probably a fresk accident, but yougot you got the best. So if
you're gonna do something that's where youwant to do it, it's I don't.
I think a lot. I dida lot of practical stunts earlier in
my career. So if you're gettinghit by a car, and you getting
hit by a car, and youknow, if you're on fire, you're
actually on fire and stuff like thatin the old eighties Jason movies and they're

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actually acting out the stunts that they'redoing and performing. And now like the
Marble Show I did, it's alot of green screen, it's a lot
of wire work, social it's sodifferent, it's and it's a whole new
dynamic when you put in wire workand green screen and visual effects and everything.
So I think the stunt coordinators andsafety have been great forever. I
mean they've been great for decades andthey really are good at what they do.

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And I think now there's so muchnew stuff that you know, coordinators
in safety protocol and everything's trying tocatch up. But like I said,
it's the best place to perform stuntsbecause you got you got the best in
the world around you, Right,Is there a lot of I'm just wondering,
if you know, if there's alot of prep work done up front
before you actually do the scene,or is there is it kind of you

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show up on sets and it's like, oh, by the way, so
we need you to do this.So it totally depends on what you're on.
If you're on a film and youknow it's the middle of the road
budget, then you're going to probablyget some stocks thrown at you or before
they'll be like, hey, yougot to do this, but there might
not be as much prep. Ifyou're on a Marvel show, it's extremely
prepped. Every person has a purposeand they're supposed to do that exact thing

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and that's it. So it's veryvery organized. And then and then like
TV shows I did in the past, or I'm on the series as a
stunt, double stuffs get thought atme every day, so it's different stuff
every day and I don't have prep. So then that's when you rely on
experience. That's one it's cool todo reno and now, hey I've done
that before. And each time youdo something you learn it better and you

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learn hey, that wasn't good thefirst time. Let's not do that again,
or let's do this different. Andit's all about trial and error.
Really what stunts, especially practical stunts, right, and so going back to
the nine one one for a second, because you did both stunt and acting,
I believe, right, And isit? Do you find it's a
fairly common thing. For example,if you're on set already doing stunt work,

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that they just say, hey,since you're doing this, you want
to just do this role as well. I mean, if you're if you're
if you're a regular and you knowyour your face is seen every day and
producers see you and they know youdo a good job. If they got
something where someone didn't show up orit's a bit part or it's a line,
yeah, look though you're in forsure, So that's that's definitely a

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bonus of the of the job.Okay, and vice versa. Have you
done acting and they're like, hey, do you start work too? Can
No? No, Well, there'salways kind of that dynamic where stunt guys
don't like actors. But it's notthat they don't like it, they don't
like to mix it. So ifyou're a stunt guy, you're only a
stunt guy. If you're an actor, you're only an actor. And I've
done some acting work, not nearas much as stunt work, but you

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know, you can't do stunt workevery day and I've done stand in and
photo double and stunts, and thenif you can get an acting game,
you can get an acting game.I mean, we all have to pay
bills, so it's what you canget. But it all kind of goes
together. So when you're when you'reworking on a project and you know this
guy, then you know the directphotography over here, and you can kind
of go into different roles and kindof kind of just mingle and get your

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collective group of everyone you know andkind of do different roles here and they
are on different projects. Okay.Have you been in a situation where you've
you say, you've done your dayon set of stunts and then as the
studio will come back to you andsay, you know what, we actually
need to reshoot that. Are yougood with that? Yeah? Yeah,

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I mean that happens. That thathappens. I mean, you you'll should
have saying then there's dailies and Ihave to go back at the dailies and
I'm like, hey, this didn'twork out the way we wanted to.
Whether it's the actor, whether it'sthe stunt man, whether if it's just
the stunts and you have to redoit. I mean that's part of your
job. You've got to get itdown and we're here to do a job,
and if we don't do it correctly, then we're gonna have to be
doing it again. And that's justpart of part of filmmaking. Yeah,

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definitely, Like, yeah, Iknew it was pretty common for actors themselves.
I just wasn't sure how common itwas with stunt people. And have
you ever had to or have youbeen replaced, Like you've done a stunt
for one person, there's been astunt doubles for example, and then they
brought in somebody else to replace you, or vice versa. You were replacing
somebody else, or do they tryand stick with the same guy. I've

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been lucky in my career to beon some long running shows Alcoholics once well,
Vampire Areas, He's found it down, so I've been able to,
you know, start at the beginningof it and kind of ride that out
for the series or majority or yearsand seasons. So I've been very fortunate
in my career. Also, reputationgoes a long way and experience, but

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definitely you can you can go toa show and you maybe do one stot
and it doesn't work out. Youdon't look like the person or whatever and
you get replaced. So yeah,I mean that's part of it. Okay,
what was my next question? Oh? Yeah, for one thing,
like you said, you've had yourtwenty years span and a are stunt people

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unionist? Yeah? Yeah, alot of them are under sack Okay.
And secondly, I don't know whatsort of retirement that plan they have,
Like are you kind of is thereany sort of compensation which you are kind
of retired or if you do getlike a serious injury where you're you have
to end your career. It's notreally compensation in general. Look when you

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retired, but when you get injured, yeah you can, you can kind
of seek that road. But we'realways getting injured. And if we start
complaining about all these injuries that we'vehad, we're not going to really get
work down the road, you know. So unless you have a really severe
injury and you can't work and youneed that that paycheck, then you can

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definitely go down that route. Butit's not a route I would go unless
I was like, you know,not not not to be able to work,
what I guess? Yeah, Andthat's kind of what its wonders more
is that scenario of Okay, thisinjury has ruined my career, I'm done.
Yeah, then you can okay,yeah, because I mean we will

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know, like sus, stunts arehigh risk position. So I don't know
if there's a danger paid to thescenario for you guys or what. But
when you do it, that's aboutit. Yeah, yeah, see,
it's it's just yeah, it's astrange scenario. I find that stunt people.

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I was actually thinking on my introbefore I did the intros. In
my head, I was thinking Ishould actually point out the fact that the
stunt people are kind of the thehidden stars of the show because you know,
they do all this work. Youknow, we see the actor thinking
it's the actor, but it's not. You know, ninety percent of the
time Tom Cruise aside, you knowit's some he is. Yeah, so

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yeah, it's I just do youfeel stunt people get enough recognition for what
they do or come? Well,I think that's part of the job,
is to be humble. You know, we kind of you don't always see
stunt man, but you always fillthem. You always know they're there.
I mean we make we make alot of stuff behind the scenes, like
a lot of people that work behindthe scenes. You know, a lot

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of lighting people, a lot ofgrips, a lot of just craft services
whatever, everyone's making a film.So but stunt people definitely or the blue,
especially in action, especially in dramaticscenes and stuff. So I guess,
I guess just just be humble andknow you leave kind of you kind
of leave your heart as a stampon the film and be happy with that.

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And if you run run into othere's stunt people who have because I
mean, I know it's the samewith actors too, where you run into
somebody who has that ego of yeah, I'm the best there is, get
out of my way. I don'tStock people are usually pretty good. They're
they're usually they're real focused. You'llfind that when you run into them.
They're focused. They're not not superserious, but I mean they are individuals

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that you know they're there to doa specific job and there's not a lot
of messing around and you've got tobe laser focused on what you do.
So as far as ego, no, I can't think of anyone that has,
you know, a big ego thatI can remember off the top of
my head. But stunt men areusually pretty humble guys. Okay, that's
fair. So since here, becausedo you do you feel you'll probably go

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back into stunts? Are you likedone? That's it? I'm done.
My body says I'm done. Bodysays you're done. And I actually saw
in one of your videos on yourYouTube channel, which, by the way,
check it out, look impression ofCorbell check out YouTube. I think
it was it was your intro videothat's on there. I think five yeah,

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five things I wish I knew beforewas a stunt man, Yeah yeah,
yeah yeah, and I think oneof them was trying to remember now.
Yeah, listening to your body wasone for sure, knowing you know,
understanding that, right. So myquestion to you is, so,
what do do you know? I'ma I'm actually a mental health therapist,

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so I help out. I'm actuallysports psychologists, so I help out with
athletes pretty much, and especially professionalathletes college athletes. But no one knows
the athletic mind. No one knowswhat an athlete goes through unless you're an
athlete. So that's kind of mytransition into helping others that were like me
and kind of retired. Whether yeah, this glorious retirement or no one's wanting

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me to play for their team anymore. So now about the heck doctory was
my life. So it's definitely atransition that I can understand and I can
help others, Okay, And honestly, that's that's an amazing transition for sure.
Because again, and I think youmentioned this on your five point video
on YouTube as well, is isthe mental health game of being a stunt
coordinate or a stunt Yeah, Andhonestly, I don't think I've actually publicly

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brought this up, but I'm tryingto get a documentary off the ground,
and the documentary is essentially about themental health of actors in different phases that
they go through, whether it bethe audition phase, you know, being
a star on the show and thenlosing that startom being a child actor or
whatever the case is, and thenbringing those mental health issues that everybody goes

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through. And stunts is right upthere as well in terms of what you
have to deal with because a,if you're injured, the fact of dealing
with that it might going to behealed enough to do this again. If
not, how am I paying mybills? You know? All these things
that go through your mind or ifyou have things. Here's the thing,
it's fear of injury. I mean, if someone has a knee injury,

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they're always going to be fearful whenI land on that knee and are going
to put more attention on the healththey need, which is going to blow
out because it's getting too much upthe attention and it's just a cycle where
you're injured and you don't want toget injured again, and you're scared,
and then you're laying on things thatare good that are going to be bad.
So it so it's huge mental aspectof I get injured. How the
heck do I go about that starts? Yeah, for sure? And do

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you feel your current role as asa sports therapist or whatever? Psychologist,
psychologist, psychologist, Okay, justget sure to get my terminology right.
Do you feel that's something you couldif you want to apply to the film
side of stunts, if you wantedto say, be there for psychological reasons
for stunt people. I think youcould definitely work with like a studio,

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you know, individual projects probably notjust probably wouldn't be enough work, But
you could work for a studio forsure and have that as an accessibility for
people that work and films and TVshows and commercials, anything of that studio
produces. I definitely think that'd bea huge aspect. And you can cater
towards athletes whether they're filming and thefilm or you can cater towards obviously stuntman

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but there's not that many of us, but everyone has mental health issues and
definitely athletes go through something that wedon't all go through. So but I
think, yeah, I mean that'sa good idea. I mean, like
working for maybe a production studio orsomething for sure. So is there a
stunt man school you will you cango to or they mostly kind of curious

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is to the learnings that you wouldhave to go through? Is it just
all on the fly learning or canyou go to a school? Because I
was also thinking that that could bea like you're saying the production companies you
could do that with Maybe that ifthere was a school you could also do
with them. There's a lot ofschools all over the country. I don't.
I mean it's kind of like filmschool. I mean you can go

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to film school for a long timeand someone who's never gone to school can
ride a sco and play and ahuge director. I don't. I think
some schools maybe to get an introductionof stunts, kind of know the basics,
how to roll, how to fall, stuff like that. But if
you're gonna be a stunt man,you're gonna learn on the fly, and
you're kind of you're gonna learn whensomething hurts, you don't want that to
hurt again, so you're gonna doit a little differently. But I'm not

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a big proponent of, you know, stunt schools, but you know,
to each their own, I thinkyou should learn by trial and error.
Maybe do some inpendance stuff, butdo strong independence uf don't like jump off
a building what's no padding and bestupid. I mean, do good stuff.
But I think you can learn thebasics on YouTube. I think YouTube's
great and I got a lot ofprofessional stuff me in there to teach you

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on YouTube, so you don't needto go to school. Okay, And
have you thought about being like anonset coordinator? I do not want to
know, Okay, it's just it'snot my thing. I don't want to
teach. That's fine. It's likeme and directing. I don't want to
act, like you said, eachthrown right, like, yeah, some

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people are meant to do that.But and that's the natural progression of hey,
I'm too able to do stunts.I'll go on to that I don't
want to be a teacher, orso I don't And is that you don't
necessarily have to answer this, Butis is that just because you again you
kind of feel that learning by trialkind of scenario, or is it just

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just something that just doesn't interest you. It doesn't interest me. But if
I want to be a stunt man, I don't want to be on the
sideline watch and others. So it'snot nothing that's fair. So aside from
the psychologic side of things, haveyou thought about doing more stuff behind the
scenes for film, like getting intothe producing or anything like that. It's

(27:14):
a lot about producing. I needto get I need to explore that a
little more. I would love Idid a character called bunny Man on Kevin
Fiber. I'd love to do acharacter like that again, just kind of
a masked horror figure something like that. That would be awesome. I'd love
to do that later in my life, but no, until that comes along,
producing would be good. I don'tlike directing such as yourself. You

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know, just stuff behind the scenes. But yeah, I mean there's not
there's not a lot out there thatI can do by meaning well, I
can do a lot of stuff,but there's not a lot out there I
want to do. So probably producingand having that epic horror role that will
come around one day, but that'sabout it. Yeah, yeah, well,
and that's yeah, it's kind ofcurious about that because well, I

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mean we briefly mentioned to each otherbefore the show, you know, we
both enjoy a horror film. Sofor me, because again, my first
producer credit, if you will,was actually my first two were horror related
films. One was a bit ofa sci fi horror and one was just
more of a thriller order sorry,producing, yeah, producing, yeah,

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and one the first one I wrote, the second one I just produced on.
And it's especially when it comes toshort films, they're a great way
to get your feet wet on onthe on the producer side of things,
right, and then move into thatfeature side if you can. Is is
horror kind of if you were juststart doing that kind of thing, is

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horror the genre you would jump rightinto. Yeah, yeah, And it's
kind of that genre where fans theyhave such loyal fans, and you can't
find those fans anywhere. And Iused to do a lot of comic cons
and I used to do a lotof horror conventions, such great fans.
But you can do horrible horror,I mean like really bad, and you

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can do epic like where it's moreof a thriller. It's kind of it's
a very easy genre to do thatyou can make look halfway decent, so
pretty much anyone can get into it, anyone can succeed in it. But
it's also really hard to make itexcellent and make it other than just a
slasher film and stuff of that nature. I am doing a project, a

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forty eight hour project here in Austinwhere I am a judge. So I'm
looking at twenty four short films andthat's interesting. So I haven't been exposed
to that many short films up tothis point. And man, the creativity,
and it's really cool because you're you'regetting in such a time print and
I think they got seven minutes,so you're really packing it in and getting
a storyline in and character development andlightings and stunts and all that. So

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it's it's pretty epics. So Ireally want to just say I admire that
about you, man, that's that'scool. I mean short films are definitely
overlooked, and I need to checkyours out. Oh no, thank you.
I can definitely share your links ifyou like afterwards, Yeah, check
them out. When it comes tohorror, do you have a specific type

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of horror you like or like?Are you a slasher kind of guy or
are you the psychological thriller or horrorkind of guy? What's what's your niche?
Slasher, I mean I gotta be. I mean, the psychological probably
the better answer because it's more difficultto do. But slasher, I mean
I love slasher. I love someFardy Krueger and some Jason Yeah. Yeah,

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kind of the eighty style. Yeah, or you're next or yeah.
I don't watch current movies. It'skind of funny with me, is I
can't sit down and watch scripted stuffanymore. It's been that white for about
ten years, but I just can'tsit down and watch it as I can't
tolerate it. So I don't getto watch movies as much anymore. So,
but definitely slash or what about you? Yeah, well definitely Yeah.

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I tend to lean towards the slasherones as well. I also kind of
like the cheesy campy stuff as well. Yeah for watching anyway, like like
slip away camp and stuff. Yeah, yeah, totally, yeah, just
exactly. Do you want to focuson producing or acting? Oh? Acting
is my thing much For the actingside, I do. The producing side

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just kind of keep keep active moreor less because a lot of this stuff
i'll produce or write. I tendto write myself in. So there are
a lot of work, not specificallyin Calgary. It's a pretty small market.
We are getting more work, likeof course, we had the last
of us up here last year fillingup here, but it's it's not necessarily

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great for actors. It's really greatfor our cruise. They get a ton
of work, but the production companiesthat come up here from the US tend
to bring in their people Yeast Vancouver, Yeah, Toronto. You know,
we might get the one or twobitlines here and there or background that's that's
essentially it. It stuck a lotof commercial work and stuff. Yeah,
yeah, exactly, But yeah,no, I definitely prefer the acting side

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of things for sure. Oh soyeah, let's get back to you,
because it's not about me. What'sthat? Conversations always good. We're kind
of wrapping up to the end ofthe show here, so I'll just ask
you a couple more questions and thenthen we'll kind of sign off here.
So one of the things, what'sthe craziest stunt that you were call doing.

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That's only one that's injured you,but just one that you thought was
crazy. The thing I thought was, I'm not a big water guy.
I did a show called Surface onNBC. We had to do a lot
of scuba diving and DC diving.We were in warming in North Carolina.
It's a lot of water work.But I did another show where we drove
a limousine off a bridge and yougotta kind of you gotta go into the
limousine and save people. You gottalearn how to breathe underwater, and it's

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a lot of acting involved, andyou got you got one shot for that
limo breaking the bridge, and there'sso much pressure on a stuntman to get
it in that one shot because that'sall you got and you don't want to
be the guy that messes that up. So that was really the most insane
thing. It was one of myearlier things but I mean it's getting set
on fire and jump it off buildingsand get hit by cars are always always
fun too. I got a touchon the fire one for a second.

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Yeah, I know they've got thecoating and stuff that they kind of throw
on there. Yeah, do youfeel it? No, So it's weird
with fires. So you do,you get coating, then you get your
suit, and then you get this. I think you have like forty five
minutes or an hour to get itall done before you can get let on
fire. But the last thing isthey put the thick coating over your suit

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and you are freezing cold. Imean, it doesn't matter what's temperatories outside,
you are freezing that thing. You'reshaking. So at that point you're
kind of excited about the heat ofthe fire, so you don't fully heat
at all. I mean, bythe time you walk through whatever you need
to and then you get put out, you don't feel it. I haven't
felt that, and I've never seenanyone injured doing it. Yeah, I

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find that fascinating. Yeah, that'sinteresting. So let's let's talk next steps
for you. Like, obviously you'redoing the sports psychology kind of thing that
I assume that's kind of your ingoal. Now, let's just films.
Films my heart, man, Filmsalways going to be there. I mean,
it was a majority of my life, so it's something I want to

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get back into. Stunts aren't gonnahappen. Body's too old, and acting
just in front of the camera andstuff is not anything I'm looking looking to
get into. So probably something inthe horror community. Maybe you're acting producing,
but I do want to get backinto it. I want to at
least have at least stay in touchwith the community and stuff, so I'll

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do something in the future for sure. Nice and yeah, and the same
way. I don't know about you, but if I too much time away
from doing something creative, I startto miss it and then yeah, I
get aunty and I'm just like,uh so I was like having too much
coffee, just like I gotta dosomething. Okay, perfect man, No,

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I appreciate it. I think we'lltry and wrap it up there,
if that's all right with you.I want to thank you again so much
for taking the time to chat withme today, and yeah, best of
luck on your your future endeavors.Man. Thanks guys, appreciate being here.
Appreciate allowing me to be here,and I had a lot of them.
Thank you, and thanks everybody forwatching. Tune in next week we'll

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have somebody new, as we doevery week, so we'll see you then.
Take care,