Jason Statham is a true action hero, and that status comes with certain responsibilities. Firstly, you must have the physique of a top athlete, and secondly, you need to perform your own stunts.
As a former elite-level diver, Statham certainly has the former, but now, in an interview with Collider, the Expendables and Fast and the Furious star has revealed how over the years he’s also performed his own stunts – sometimes at great risk to his health. health.
‘I did a little jump in the Transporter 2,’ Statham explained. ‘I jumped from the back of a jet ski onto the back of a bus. It wasn’t a very safe stunt. I shouldn’t have done it, there was no safety wire, but I just did that. I mean, if I’d have missed the back of the bus, it would have been a faceplant at 30 mph into the concrete.’
In the same interview, Statham shared how he’s torn a bicep and really screwed his neck up doing stunts, which in hindsight he probably should have used a green screen for.
He also explained that his experience of making action movies is nothing new. His co-star in The Expendables, and one of the greatest action heroes of all time, Sylvester Stallone, also has a catalogue of battle scars from years of beating himself up for our viewing pleasure.
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‘He’s got a roadmap of injuries over the course of his career,’ said Statham. ‘A lot of the things we do, it’s because our ego gets in front of us, and we want it to be authentic. We want people to see that that’s us doing it. We want the audience to go for the ride.’