11 A-List Actors And Their Stunt Doubles

You don’t know them and they don’t get the big bucks or grace the pages of celebrity magazines, but they are the amazing people who make your favourite actors look like superheroes on-screen.

Say hello to the stunt doubles – you won’t watch an action sequence with any of these actors in the same way again.

Tom Hardy

The British actor is not afraid to admit how important stuntmen are to his on-screen success, even doing interviews with the one who stood in for him during ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’.

This is him with Lloyd Bateman (‘The Revenant’ ‘Tomorrowland’) on the set of 2012 action comedy ‘This Means War’.

Harrison Ford

So much did legendary stuntman Vic Armstrong look like Ford as Indiana Jones, that when Harry injured his back during ‘Temple of Doom’ and was laid up in bed for several weeks, Steven Spielberg carried on shooting with Armstrong taking his place.

He’s now a celebrated second unit director for movies like ‘Thor’, ‘Eddie the Eagle’ and ‘The Amazing Spider-Man’.

Carrie Fisher

Did you really think Fisher did all that running and jumping in Jabba’s palace by herself?

No, that was Sandi Gross, who also had to endure the gold slave girl bikini, though at least they had time to catch some rays on set in Tunisia.

Benedict Cumberbatch

Cumberbatch is a great actor sure, but even he needs some help kicking Spock’s butt. Step forward Martin de Boer, who doubled for Ben in ‘Star Trek Into Darkness’.

De Boer also stood in as Jai Courtney in ‘Terminator Genisys’ and Jack Reynor in ‘Transformers: Age of Extinction’.

Angelina Jolie

Angie’s double Eunice Huthart got her break as a stuntwoman after winning TV show ‘Gladiators’ back in the 1990s.

She’s since gone to stand in for Jolie several times, as well as becoming a successful stunt co-ordinator in her own right on movies like ‘Pan’ and ‘In the Heart of the Sea’.

Here she is with the actress during the shooting of spy flick ‘Salt’.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

So committed was stuntman Billy Lucas to representing Arnie properly that he even wore a facial prosthetic to make them look more similar, which you can see in the picture, taken on the set of 1994’s ‘True Lies’.

Taylor Lautner

Lautner may have honed his six-pack to play a werewolf in the ‘Twilight’ series, but that doesn’t mean he’s a skilled parkour merchant, which his character in ‘Tracers’ was required to be.

Gabriel Nunez was the one to don the T-shirt and boyband hairdo for the 2015 pic and did the same for Lautner in ‘The Ridiculous 6’.

Chris Hemsworth

Stuntman Bobby Holland Hanton was a gymnast and high diver before being Thor alongside Hemsworth in sequel ‘The Dark World’ and had to wear lifts in his shoes to stand the same height as the 6’2” actor.

Still, he’s getting used to playing superheroes – he also doubled for Christian Bale in the Batman series.

Daniel Craig

This daring chap doubled for Daniel during the spectacular aerial fight sequences at the beginning of ‘Spectre’, which is why he also has strange dots on his face (most likely so that Craig’s face can be mapped on by CGI later on).

He’s actually one of several people who stood in for 007 in the movie, depending on the different skills the secret agent was supposed to show off.

Honor Blackman

She was one of the great Bond women and even got to have a proper tussle with 007 himself in a hay barn.

But while Blackman is a tough cookie, she’s not as good a fighter as Phyllis Corner, who was the other Pussy Galore in ‘Goldfinger’.

Mark Ruffalo

Anthony Molinari is basically a dead spit of the man he’s doubling, something which Ruffalo seems to find mightily amusing on the set of ‘Now You See Me’.

Molinari will do the same job in this year’s sequel and will also get more authentic credits as a cop in ‘Jason Bourne’ and for playing Buzzcut (whoever he may be) in ‘Jack Reacher: Never Go Back’ opposite Tom Cruise.

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