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" My whole life I've actually been training to be a stunt man without realising it. I've always loved extreme sports, and I now I get paid for it. "
Steve Truglia
Sports
Now
Man
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" A James Bond movie is a stuntman's dream. "
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" I was in a peacetime army. It was like something out of a Le Carre novel: studying the habits of your enemy. It was very exciting. It's interesting living life as a civilian, then on Friday night you're parachuting into a foreign country. "
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You
Night
" I work in film, TV, commercials and do live PR stunts for companies. A lot of my time is spent reading scripts and looking at designing sequences, speaking to directors and producers about how they want the sequences to look, how they will work and budgeting those stunts. "
Steve Truglia
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" A good stunt has to have both style and substance. It's a combination of impact and notoriety, the element of danger, technical execution, and the skill of the stunt performer. "
Steve Truglia
Skill
Style
Execution
" As a close-up magician, I was using gambling cheating techniques. "
Steve Truglia
Gambling
Cheating
Close-Up
" A James Bond movie is a stuntman's dream. I was in a helicopter firing a machine gun at Piers Brosnan escaping on a motorbike. "
Steve Truglia
Helicopter
Bond
Dream
" If a magician makes a mistake, it's sometimes forgiven by the audience. If a gambling cheat makes a mistake, they will almost certainly lose their lives - and probably in a horrible manner. "
Steve Truglia
Sometimes
Gambling
Lose
" Stunt performing is a highly structured career path - you have to gain qualifications in six different sports to a high standard. It takes four or five years and costs at least £20,000; a black belt in a martial art from scratch costs a fortune. "
Steve Truglia
Path
Sports
Black
" Yakima Canutt was famously John Wayne's stunt double, and in the Western movie 'Stagecoach,' there is a fantastic scene where there are some horses thundering along, pulling a carriage. He climbs out onto the horses and drops down underneath them, so he's being dragged along, and then he lets go. "
Steve Truglia
Drops
Go
Double