- I wanna introduce you guys
to someone real quick, RJ Wolfe.
- How'd that look?
- Um, I don't think that one quite worked
because you could see that gap distance
when his (laughs)
If he just went a little bit further with his fist
and came here, maybe a little bit lower
since the camera's right here
then I would have to take a reaction like that
and it would look way more real than
if it went straight on like that.
Because from his perspective, this looks correct
like he's hitting me, but from your guys' perspective,
the audience, that doesn't look right.
- So, ready?
- Yeah. (screams)
- You guys see me beat the (beep) out of RJ Wolfe?
That's right, don't mess with Potato Jet.
That's interesting, you always have to be cautious
of where the camera sits for this.
- Yes and that's what's also challenging
about doing stunts is that,
especially when you're using a steadicam,
the camera isn't stationary so here you can be like,
okay, it will never move.
If you're standing, I'll just hit here
and it will always sell.
- (screams) Ow.
- There's a steadicam that moves up, down, left, right
at every angle so we as stunt performers have
to also subconsciously be paying attention
to either the static camera to the moving steadicamera.
- Yeah, that's an interesting point
because the first time I ever filmed
anything action-related, the camera angle always had
to be very precise when we were floating around the room
and if I wasn't at the right spot, it doesn't work
because the hits don't sell at that angle.
So that's something that I had to be really cognizant of
when you're filming fight scenes.
RJ just finished shooting Daredevil Season three.
You're not allowed to talk about what you're doing yet
until the season comes out right?
But if I think of what is a show or a movie
that has cool stunts, I mean, it's got to be,
Daredevil's like top three.
You're living the dream right now.
This is probably where you were hoping to be, right?
- It's still, gotta go further you know,
can't stop. - (laughs)
RJ and I met like what, 10 years ago almost?
- 10 and a half - We're aging ourself
in this video - Yeah, I know.
(both laugh) feels bad man.
- Both of us just moved to LA
and we just had a, we were pretty clueless.
Hey, we're in Hollywood now, what do we do now?
- Where are we?
- Chuck was, that was your first TV credit huh?
How many times did you die on that show Chuck?
- (sighs) I can't even count.
My first stunt job, the actors walk in
and then a guy sneaks up behind them,
breaks a vase over the back of his neck, head area
and then he's supposed to fall.
Merritt was like, "Okay, let's rehearse
"what you're reaction will look like."
He hit me like that and I had to react.
I took it and just swept my feet under me
and fell as fast and hard as I could
to make it look as violent and nasty
as I could possibly make it.
He was like, Uh no.
- (both scream)
- Like flew across the room.
Uh, it's just a lamp bro.
I mean, most people when they think of a stunt man,
they think of the craziest people they know.
They'll literally, people that jump off a bridge
or do anything that are insane
but you actually don't want crazy people
on your set doing these stunts because you need people
that can perform a precise trick or stunt
and not get injured 'cause an injury
on a set is a big deal, right?
- Yes, because on a set, you wanna do three takes,
four takes, five takes, six takes.
Being a stunt man is not all about being crazy
like the Jackass guys.
Those are phenomenal stunts by the way
that the Jackass guys do.
They're your very brave daredevil risk-takers
but that's not what we want on set necessarily.
You do wanna be brave, you do wanna be a risk-taker
and you do wanna do those things,
but you wanna do it controlled.
- Purge, a little spoiler.
At the end, you get shot up.
- [Wolfe] Yes
- [Potato Jet] Is that, those are squibs on your back is it?
- Yeah, I think I had six or eight squibs on on my back.
All they do is special effects just sets off
pa pa pa pa pap.
All of your reactions are real because the squibs have charge
and when that charge pops,
it sends the other thing the other way
so towards your skin so it hurts
so when you get shot, that is real reaction
if you're not wearing a pad 'cause it stings.
Yeah, and that's why you you're going to hear my voice,
I was like uh ah uh uh ah.
- Is it wireless or is it like,
are you attached to a bunch of cables
to collect the charge or?
- They have wireless chargers and they have cables.
Had a bunch of cables to a box, a transmitter box
and then the guy was over there.
- Those don't look like they would feel good.
You didn't have any protection so?
- Yeah, just a layer of shirt,
but it's not too bad because the girl,
she had to have a squib right on her forehead.
(gun firing)
yeah, she's a bad ass.
- I can't imagine how bad it would hurt
to have a little explosive charge go off on your head.
- Yeah, I was like, good luck.
(both laughs)
- New girl I was on for a very long time.
That whole crew is so funny, they just improv.
They go back and forth, it's so interesting.
Improv one scene and they're like,
alright let's do take two
and then they do take two
and it's completely abstract different
from what they just did and it's really impressive.
I was running on the treadmill and they're like, action
so then I had to fall.
Just took it straight to my stomach, arms out, bam
and then the track took me,
sent me right to an elliptical in the back
and that actually knocked the wind out of you, right.
I was out of breath for like 10 seconds.
So when I was down on the ground,
I was just like trying to catch my breath
and then they said, cut and I was just like,
okay, I gotta get up now, gotta get up.
Get up and be like, yup
and they were like, you all good, you all good?
I'm like, yup perfect.
- Yeah, I'm good.
- Let me go to my corner and just yeah, meditate. (laughs)
Oh this is also part of New Girl.
Yeah, and that was Megan Fox episode.
- That was a real rat?
- That was a real rat, they had two rats.
Rats are so intelligent.
These rats were so trained, they knew how to wait,
they knew how to jump, they knew how to do everything.
It was really impressive.
The rat's foot went in my mouth as I was doing ,
I was like, I hope that foot was clean.
We've done so many things
before I even got into the stunt industry
working professionally he would drive,
and I would just jump out of the car
and we would test different speeds and stuff like that.
- Yeah, you were like, hit me with your car,
I'm like, okay.
(car screeching)
- Remember that time when I set off an explosion
in the garage and then you like jumped through it?
- Yeah, I was like, let me jump through that fire.
- We did that once and it was tiny
so we were like, we could probably quadruple that size.
We did it and quadrupled way too much.
- My eyebrows look like (beep).
- [Potato Jet] That was nuts.
- Oh, my eyelashes.
Yeah, it's always good to have a friend
who's willing to put your life at risk
and help get your goal accomplished.
- You could count on me for that.
Yeah, I'll set you on fire anytime you want.
It's funny 'cause there's a, fire gel's like its own thing
by Action Factory makes it or something.
Yeah, this company Action Factor makes fire gel
and it's a fire retardant so that the fire won't attach
to your hair and burn you and stuff like that.
So there's a lot of prepping that goes into fire
where soaking your clothes into the fire gel
and then wearing that so you could be in an explosion
and the fire won't attach to you.
We literally went to the faucet in the bathroom
like, let's just sprinkle
some water on you. - (laughs)
- Do you remember that .
We were like, I think your hair might catch on fire,
just in case, let's just splatter some water on your hair,
you're good, you're good - (laughs) I remember.
Yeah, wow I actually forgot that
until you mentioned it, yes I do remember that.
That's how you learn, I guess, I don't know.
- It's probably how all the stuff came about.
They were like, hey let's try to jump through a fire.
Well, Frankie's dead now so let's--
- (laughs) Maybe we should have done that.
(both laughs)
- Bang Bang is a Bollywood film.
Was shot in Shimla Manali, New Delhi, we shot all over.
- Pack your bags, you're going to India.
And you're gonna be doubling one
of the biggest Bollywood stars.
- Yeah, it was pretty cool.
- What was the craziest stunt during that shoot.
- It was probably the roof jump in Shimla.
I had to run and just jump that with no sling or anything
to potential death.
It's just parkour, that's what we do
but the roofs over there were made out of thin tin
so it was very slippery, it was very weak,
very fragile so I didn't know I had any potential time
during my run up to jump over the building
whether the roof was gonna cave in
or my foot was gonna fall through
because we did tests prior to that jump a bunch of times
where we would just walk on the roofs and twice,
two guys, separate times, their foots fell through
and scraped their whole shin and the metal just cut,
gave him such cuts and they had to go to the hospital
and stuff and they didn't even tell me they were squibs
on the runway and all that stuff so.
- They didn't tell you that?
- No, they didn't.
That could have been a potential risk
but I was so in the zone I didn't even.
Eh, makes the scene look better
but they should've told me.
There's a lot of injures that happened there
because they hire a lot of people
that just get paid for the day.
They just come out and they're willing to get hurt
for pennies so they just come out, they do a scene,
they get hurt and then they get sent home
then you get a new guy.
- So you're seeing a lot of these guys
that are getting beat up.
They're like actually getting injured
because they just kinda get hired for the day and sent home.
- Yeah, so right here, this guy follows me in right here
and he fell, got hit, this is real.
He really hit his chin on there,
he really hit that roof and he fell.
He wasn't supposed to do that.
- Wait, what?
- He was supposed to jump into the window with me.
So right here, he actually hit his chin, fell
and there was no mat on the ground.
So when I jumped through the beads, I rolled, got up,
came right downstairs 'cause that was my scene
to finish outside and then he was
on the ground having a seizure
and that was...
- Wait, he was having a seizure?
- He was having a seizure on the ground.
So he hit his chin on the thing, hit the awning.
Thank god the awning was there
or else he would have fell from two stories straight
to concrete and--
- Oh my god.
- They asked a stunt guy, they were like, can you do this?
And they say, yes.
Even if they can't do it, they want that job.
They wanna work that day.
So they say yes, I can do it
and then they go to do it and they really can't do it so.
- Oh gosh.
Taurus award is basically the Oscars for stunts
because they don't have a stunt category in Oscars
'cause they need to have, I mean.
Harness hits and they literally just show people
with something getting like, hit with a car
and bashing through a window and stuff like that
and then it's like, which one do you think is the best hit?
Best high falls, best car stunts,
like it was the coolest show I've ever been to.
But you got nominated for one, so that's really impressive.
That's like really (beep) cool.
- [Wolfe] This is Teen Wolf, yeah.
I was a creature who's a World War Two soldier and--
- [Potato Jet] Oh, that's disgusting.
- In order to get in all that prosthetics
and stuff, I had four people just shaving my whole body,
just getting all my hair, I'm a pretty hairy guy
but I just got shaved yesterday for a TV show, Lucifer
so now I'm bare right now I've shaved my arms and everything
but, and they melted latex and then put it on me
so I was just covered in latex everywhere
and then the face part was a prosthetic.
- [Potato Jet] These swords that you're swinging
around in the scene, how heavy are these swords.
- I forget what material they're made out of
but they are heavy so that they look real.
- And all these scenes,
the sword is actually not even touching anybody.
- Mhmm, so that girl who got cut in the stomach,
she came in with her shirt already ripped
and blood on her shirt.
So it's a lot in the elbows and the wrists.
So you won't wanna hit
and have your hand pointed towards him,
you wanna bend it in.
So it looks like you cut.
And as you leave his body, you wanna flex your wrist down
to show that you cut and-- - That is cool.
Supergirl too.
- Yeah, I was Red Tornado.
So I did all the suit work for Red Tornado.
The helmet was prosthetic so that was a huge prosthetic
thing they glued from here
all the way around to my chin up here,
they glued it to my face.
We were filming outside
on Warner Brother's lot in the summer,
in the huge heat on pavement
so it was so hot that I could squeeze the forehead part
and it would just drip all the sweat
'cause it would just stay in the prosthetic helmet.
It was pretty nasty.
- Oh gosh. It must be interesting working with CG
'cause you're required to use your imagination
on a lot of this, that tornado stuff right?
- Exactly, so sometimes you feel silly doing CG.
You have to really pretend as if it's real
even through nothing is going on.
It's just a camera and nothing.
So you have to pretend like you're being frozen,
you have to pretend like your arm flew off or something.
Yeah, and if you guys have any questions
about stunts, my Instagram, I have 10 photos.
I upload like one a year
so you can come and take a look at that.
There's nothing really too impressive on there
but it's @RJWOLFESTUNTS RJ Wolfe stunts--
- It's right here on the label, can't you see?
It's right there, you don't have to spell it.
If there's people out there that are like,
I wanna one day be a stunt man, what would you tell them?
- Be careful, love it, be smart
but the number one thing I tell everybody is,
go to JAM, joining all movement.
One, you get to meet people who are working already
and two, you get to be friends with those people
and people wanna work with the friends.
Just like Gene and I, we've been friends since the start
so we'll always work together forever.
- That was really cool.
Thanks for being on the show.
- Thank you. (screams)