Actors And Their Stunt Doubles

Leaving it to the Professionals

Danny Trejo is seen here with his stunt double on the set of Machete Kills in 2013. Trejo said in an interview that doing your own stunts is nothing more than a show of bravado: “If they get hurt, I’m sorry to say but they just need to put a mustache on another Mexican and we can keep going. But if I get hurt, everybody’s out of a job. So I don’t choose to do that.”

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