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Movie stunts are often a team effort, with doubles, rigs, and digital cleanup doing much of the heavy lifting. A handful of actors have made a reputation by stepping into the danger themselves. Their fights, falls, and chases hold the camera a little longer because the person on screen is the person taking the risk.
Doing your own stunts rarely means doing every one of them. Insurers and directors usually draw a line somewhere, and stunt coordinators still plan and supervise the work. The nine actors below stand out for how much of the physical work they have taken on, and how well that work is documented.
Tom Cruise
Cruise is probably the most famous example working today. In Mission: Impossible, Ghost Protocol he climbed the outside of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, and in Rogue Nation he hung onto the side of an Airbus A400M as it took off. For Fallout he trained for a HALO jump, a high altitude low opening skydive filmed at night.
The work has cost him. During Fallout he broke his ankle leaping between rooftops in London, and the shot with the injury made it into the finished film. For Dead Reckoning Part One, he rode a motorcycle off a Norwegian cliff, a sequence the production openly promoted as his own work. The 2025 follow up, The Final Reckoning, featured him on a vintage biplane.
Jackie Chan
Chan built his career on stunts that were as inventive as they were punishing. He started…
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Author : Matthias Binder
Publish date : 2026-10-28 07:45:00
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