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Question about 'Death Proof'

posted 15 years ago by craigjohnson20
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I'm not sure if anyone can answer this; but when Jackie Chan would do an American movie, even ten years ago when he was still agile, they had stunt doubles for him any time his character did something death-defying.

The same goes for Michelle Yeoh when she was in "Tomorrow Never Dies".

So how did Quentin Tatrrantino get away with making a movie that put one of it's stars in mortal danger? American productions are very edgy about things like that.

[–] heat_like_burning 14 years ago

lol to the OP, nobody was really answering your question were they. Anyway yea, Chan and Yeoh are actors who do stunts, while Bell is a stunwoman who acts. Anyway lots of actors do their own stunts, maybe the car scene wasn't as dangerous as it looked so it didn't even matter, i think it was though

hey, yoda needs to give some better advice, or yoda needs to shut the *beep* up