[HPFGU-Movie] Stunt doubles (was Re:First POA pictures)

[Richelle Votaw]

I (Richelle) wrote:

>>case anything goes wrong."  I know, I know, that's what stunt doubles 
>>do.  And they probably used the older one anyway, but still, I wouldn't 
>>make a good parent of a stunt double!

GulPlum replied:

>Errr... didn't Dan say somewhere along the line that his stunt double was 
>19 or something ("although he's about my size")? The whole idea of using 
>stunt doubles for kids is to have "small adults" rather than kids partially 
>so that they *don't* have to deal with over-protective parents. :-)

I was under the impression Dan had two stunt doubles, one younger, one older.  I got that from this quote (a couple years old now) after SS/PS:

"Yeah, I do about 90 percent of my own stunts. But there's not that many. That's the reason I've been getting into gymnastics, because my stunt double, I have two, but one of them is called Tolga who's really nice, he's really cool, and the other one's David Holmes, he's 17, but he's very small. He's been Britain's No. 1 gymnast. He's been tutoring in gymnastics, preparing me for all the stunts." 

I suppose I was operating under the assumption that sense Dan pointed out that David Holmes was 17, but small, that the other one (Tolga) was closer to his own age.  That, and 19 year olds have parents too. :)

Richelle


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