Stunt doubles are without a doubt the most overlooked and unsung aspect of the film industry, and why the Academy Awards have failed to listen to the calls to give them their own category at the biggest ceremony on the calendar is anybody’s guess, because these folks put their lives on the line for our entertainment and let the stars take the credit for it.
Looking at the sheer size of Dwayne Johnson, you’d have thought it’d be difficult to find somebody capable of replicating the former professional wrestler’s dimensions. As fortune and coincidence would have it, during shooting on The Rock’s first major leading role in The Scorpion King almost 20 years ago, he met his distantly-related cousin Tanoai Reed for the first time, and the rest his history.
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