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After the premiere The scapegoat At SXSW on Tuesday, Ryan Gosling made a quick trip to Los Angeles for a special screening Wednesday night.
He was joined at The Grove by director David Leitch and co-stars Emily Blunt, Winston Duke, Hannah Waddingham and Stephanie Hsu, as they gave the crowd a sneak peek of the film. The project stars Gosling as a stuntman who left the business and returns when the star of a movie (played by Aaron Taylor-Johnson) directed by his ex (Blunt) disappears.
“I was on a children’s action television show called Young Hercules, and I’ve basically had a double my entire life,” Gosling said of his long relationship with the stuntmen. “There’s a kind of accepted dynamic where they come on set, do all the interesting things, risk everything, and then they disappear into the shadows and we all act like they were never there. Everyone else on set gets credit, but there’s kind of an unspoken understanding that they won’t do it,” before jokingly declaring, “That ends today!”
He continued: “It took about eight specialists to make one. Scapegoat, and there were moments where I thought, ‘Should we make a movie or rob a bank? Because this is the biggest team of bank robbers… they were like the Avengers or something, and a lot of them were probably the Avengers, if you look at their CVs. I have benefited from their work and their help since I started, so to be a part of telling their story and in some way trying to reflect how vital they are and how important what they do is.”
One of the film’s specific stuntmen, Logan Holladay, was specifically recognized at the screening, as he was awarded a Guinness World Record title for doing the most cannon rolls in a car: he reached eight and a half turns during a scene while acting as Gosling. stunt driver. Gosling noted that in the film, “He’s tying me to a car for a stunt he’s about to do. And then he does eight and a half barrel rolls, which is a world record, and then he pulls me out of the car and pats me on the back for the trick he just pulled. In any other movie you wouldn’t know it, but in this one you do.”
Leitch, a former stuntman, also noted how personal the film is to him, saying he wanted it to be “not just a celebration of action movies, but a celebration of the stuntmen and stuntmen behind the scenes, the unsung heroes.” “They really risk their lives to bring you some of the most memorable sequences in cinema, and the hard work they put in and the joy they feel doing it.”
Waddingham joked on stage: “I feel like in a different life, if I really had the guts to do it, I would have really liked to be a stuntman. I actually told this to David and (producer) Kelly (McCormick), and then they realized I could do a little bit, but it was pretty limited, so the stunt community probably doesn’t have to worry about me one to them. ”
The scapegoat hits theaters on May 3.