Anime Club (Dir. Jake Boss) 2009
Not to turn mental illness into relatable content but is there anything more hilarious then spending an entire day vamping up to do something like spending ALL day thinking about it and putting it off and dreading it and then you finally, FINALLY do it and it takes 6 seconds and you realize that was your whole day plan
So fucked up.
To be clear, a major part of this is that there are very limited avenues to pursue stunt work generally, and those are heavily guarded by a word of mouth network of white men and, more recently, white women. Before anyone talks about the perceived ease of East Asian stunt performers, keep in mind that at least in the US, the vast majority are contracted because of specific proficiency and often as silent fodder for white heroes.
That aside, there are plenty of talented performers who lack only the formal guidance to be *safe* and *recognized* stunt actors. There was just a guardian(?) article profiling some of the Black Women breaking into the UK stunt scene.
(Previously Gotham was called out for using white stunt doubles for jada pinkett-smith)
I haven’t read the article above, but I’m sure the disregard for their safety is even more present considering Joi Harris’s death from Deadpool 2. Who wasn’t even a stuntswoman but (the first ever btw) black woman road racer, who was forced to do it because they didn’t have enough black stuntwomen.