Opinion | Bryan Reesman: 'The film chronicles how women who pursue this unsung career cope with the extra challenges of sexism, pay disparity and, of course, uncomfortable costumes.' - NBCNewsTHINK
After elbowing their way onto the cast list, of course, more challenges for stuntwomen await. The attitude of the stuntmen on set can be among them. Evans, a 43-year veteran stunt driver, once got lectured about motorcycle tire pressure from a huffy “CHiPs”crew member in the late ’70s.
When Dorsey’s not working, she trains all day long. “When you're doing long fight scenes, you really have to be in shape.” But, she said to me, “If I'm doubling an actress, I might have to lose weight.” That affects the way she has to think about how she’s moving through her scenes: “We have to be able to have air awareness, to know where our body is landing as much as we can.”
“I actually was put into a fire sequence in a negligee,” Donna Keegan, whose credits include “Independence Day” and “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom,” told me. “Do you know how flammable negligees are? They just kept dousing flame retardant stuff all over it.” Wright said that having a woman in charge of the production can help because they’re often more attuned to the special challenges women face and how unprotected they can be. “A lot of women have told me that when there is a female director or second unit director or stunt coordinator that they are more conscious of that.
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