Before Ryan Gosling became the stunt double Colt Seavers in The Fall Guy (2024), cinema had already done its part to highlight the work of these professionals who risk everything so that the directors have the perfect shot. Gosling played a stuntman in Nicolas Winding Refn’s acclaimed Drive (2011). Tarantino gave us Death Proof (2007) where he not only fathered Kurt Russell’s Stuntman Mike but also made veteran stuntwoman Zoë Bell the film’s protagonist. Old Quentin would repeat the dose with his Cliff Booth to take Brad Pitt to collect an Oscar for his Once Upon a Time…In Hollywood (2019). And so we can go back to 1932 with The Lost Squadron where some former pilots from the First World War enlist as stunt pilots in Hollywood.

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