Word: stuntwoman
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...sitting through the logorrheic stretches of the movie is, first, a car crash - which, in the manner of Hong Kong action films, is shown as an instant replay, from four views - and then a long car chase. Here's the set-up: On a film shoot in Tennessee, a stuntwoman (played by Zoe Bell, who was Uma Thurman's double on Kill Bill) hears that 1970 Dodge Challenger, just like the one in Vanishing Point, is for sale. She and her girlfriends visit the peckerwood who has the car, and three of them take it for a test drive while...
...into athletics. I played Radcliffe Rugby, and I am interested by women doing physical work, like being a stuntwoman, and how women forge an identity through that,” Micheli says. “Plus, I am really interested in older women’s stories. They’ve experienced things I haven’t, and I can learn from them...
...with her smile. She can take a nothing day, yada yada yada. But when it comes to sprinting down a sidewalk, hurdling a rolled-up carpet carried by two workmen and flopping onto the pavement, Mary Tyler Moore would have been better off leaving the job to professionals. A stuntwoman was supposed to handle the scene, in which Moore's Mary Richards--now a 60-year-old widow--chases in high heels after a stray dog, but Moore decided to try the pratfall herself. "I became airborne and did a three-point landing," Moore says, and at one of those...
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