Zoë Bell joins Perri Nemiroff for a Collider Ladies Night conversation at Fantastic Fest 2024.
The Big Picture Roughly 10 years ago, when I was in my early days of covering film festivals, I was thrilled to get the opportunity to sit down with the team responsible for a movie that spotlighted a group of women who were, and still are, utter forces in film and television. That team? The filmmakers behind Raze, led by prolific stunt performer and coordinator, Zoë Bell.
“I can tell you the first movie I remember seeing. I was born on a tiny little island off the coast of Auckland that did not have a theater. So it was a sheet in the town hall and fold-out chairs, and it was The Wizard of Oz . I just remember being like, ‘It’s like I'm dreaming, but I'm awake.’ ” “I remember the first time I met stunt people. I had done an audition, didn't know what that was, got the job, didn't know what that was, got in a van with a bunch of people that I didn't know, got dropped off in a town that I had never been to, walked into a hotel room that was filled with — it was basically walking into a circus in a hotel room.
“Every time they would say ‘cut,’ I'd go, ‘Oh my god. It's definitely me. I fucked it up. Sorry! What did I do? What did I do wrong?’ And then about three months in, they said ‘cut,’ and I was like, ‘I know that wasn't me.’ I was like, ‘Oh, that's a different feeling!’ Now I know when it's me , and I generally know when it's not me. But that was a huge shift for me.”
“Stepping into Once Upon a Time , because we had big gags and proper dangerous stuff, I was like, ‘My job is safety, first and foremost.’ I mean, it always is, but I'm gonna have to figure out how to say no to Quentin. I'm usually like, ‘Yeah, we'll make that work,’ because it's just me. But when I'm in charge of the safety of others, I was like, ‘Oh, different!’”
Bell heavily attributes her character and storytelling-first approach to stunt work to Tarantino. She explained: Bell took a moment to address how Tarantino’s guidance teed her up for success in this respect, by helping her understand the importance of character motivation during stunts. She recalled:
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