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Norman Reedus | Stunt School | Men's Health

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00:00I got clocked with the Glock so I had so much blood the doctors see me oh my god because I'm

00:05covered in blood there's a lady out in the road going stop stop I think he had a heart attack

00:10behind the wheel and there's an 18-wheeler on its side in the ditch the paramedics come and they go

00:17didn't I just take you to the hospital and I go you did but it's it's him now it was an insane

00:22insane day hi I'm Norman Reedus this is stunt school men's health has asked me to share some

00:27of my favorite stories about some of the stunts I've done this is ballerina so that scene in

00:39particular it's it's choreographed for film it's a very different fighting style than I'm used to

00:44I'm used to a very sloppy fighting style on walking dead so every fight sequences is extended there's

00:51multiple things happening in the room what I do is a cue for them to start fighting for those guys to

00:56start shooting this way parts of the building around me to start exploding and breaking off

01:01so when I'm leaning up against the wall and I'm yelling to my little girl I'm like baby get down

01:07that's a cue for them to start shooting them to start fighting things start exploding around me

01:12so you have to kind of memorize the math of it and then you you have to know it so well that you can

01:18just forget it and then put your chin down and just go to work but it's a lot of math I'm pretty good

01:23with memorizing choreography for fight sequences I know what move is going to take me to the next

01:28move you know so rather than just one two three I remember that's one that's two so I'm pretty good

01:36with it yeah this is the walking dead I had to fight this character named beta which was playing

01:43by Ryan Hurst who's like eight feet tall we had a really long fight choreographed down to the T but I

01:49I changed my fighting style in that instead of holding a knife like this I changed it to holding

01:55them down like this for the first time you know with the blade going down by my elbows because the

02:00only way I thought that I could beat him was to get inside and kind of cut him down like a tree as I got

02:06better with fighting with knives I started doing these things with the stunt teams there instead of

02:13fight fight fight next guy fight fight fight next guy what's the way to get from A to B through 12

02:18people with the least amount of effort in sort of a poetic ballet vibe right started to incorporate

02:27going under arms and chopping ankles and people would fall and I sort of would try to move fluidly

02:35through a crowd which kind of messed me up when I got back to New York be walking down the sidewalk

02:41and there'd be a big group of tourists first thing I would think of was how do I get through these

02:45people the fastest way possible if I grab this one by the hair and throw them into this one that'll

02:50create a path so I kind of had to rewind my brain the beta fight in particular was was really complicated

02:56I remember Ryan had kind of a hard time memorizing it I had a big stunt double that was for Ryan that I was

03:04fighting and he was very physical with me he like kind of banged me up a little bit I started doing

03:09a lot of my own stunts in the beginning on walking dead until I kept getting hurt I always wanted to

03:15be me I'm like one of those guys that like if I can tell it's not me it drives me nuts and I'm kind

03:19of a klutz I used to have so many black eyes on that show that they would write them in the script

03:24a lot of them I gave myself I got clocked with the Glock once right across the face and had to have

03:29stitches across my forehead the crazy part about that story I got clocked with the Glock it and

03:35your forehead bleeds so much so I had so much blood coming down my face and I'm screaming at the guy that

03:41hit me with the gun and we're yelling back and forth and the ambulance is coming behind us I get in the

03:46ambulance I go to the hospital and I have so much fake blood all over me from the scene that now I have

03:52fake blood and real blood the doctors see me oh my god because I'm covered in blood they give me

03:58stitches across my forehead they take me back to work there's a lady out in the road going stop stop

04:05I think he had a heart attack behind the wheel and there's an 18-wheeler on its side in the ditch

04:09I jumped out of the van crawled up pulled this big sweaty guy out of the truck laid him on the ground

04:17I'm kind of slapping him going come on stay with me stay with me the paramedics come and they go

04:23didn't I just take you to the hospital and I go you did but it's it's him now so they cut open his shirt

04:28people start coming out with their camera phones a teamster grabs me by the back of the shirt drags me

04:33back into the van I go back to my place and I fall asleep and then the next day at set the producers

04:40were like did you pull a guy out of an 18-wheeler and save him I'm like oh yeah I did I forgot

04:45it was an insane insane day this is Death Stranding Death Stranding is different it's it's all digital

04:54there are no physical stunts that motorcycle doesn't look like a motorcycle it looks like a piece of

05:01cardboard almost in the shape of a motorcycle it's so high-tech and futuristic they don't we don't make

05:07them yet the video would be like okay here's a baby on the ground pick it up and cry and I'm like why

05:14what am I crying when you cry and then look up and there's a whale you know so if you kind of just

05:19have to trust what he is talking about the first one I was kind of it's kind of hard for me to follow

05:25the story but then I started to get the hang of it and I'd never done motion capture before it's

05:30you're in a skin-tight lycra bodysuit covered in velcro and balls there's a thousand dots on your face

05:37then there's a helmet with a camera you know you stick to everything you know it's it's kind of a

05:43process and then like scenes where I'm going in and I'm hugging Mads Nicholson or I'm kissing Lea

05:48Sidhu you're you're banging foreheads you know you kind of have to find the hole and sort of Jenga your

05:55way in there it's a very unique process to make a video game of that caliber it's all sort of done in

06:01the imagination until you see it you know this is boondock Saints that was a lot of choreographed

06:10fighting we use sort of Rocco as a shield if I remember correctly on that scene Billy Connolly

06:17introduces his vest in that scene with all the pistols like this which I believe I saw Benicio

06:23del Toro do the exact same thing in a movie a couple years later which upset Billy to no end yeah there was

06:29a lot of a lot of camera work a lot of slow motion firefight stuff a lot of squibs hitting us and

06:36knocking us down it was kind of my first introduction to getting hit with bullets so a lot of stuff like

06:43that I think we set up some sort of record at that point for bullet pops we did that movie for I think

06:51seven million dollars was the budget of that movie and we never went to movie theaters because of the

06:56Columbine shooting nobody wanted to buy that film at that point I think Troy sold it to blockbuster

07:01while we were waiting and it became one of the biggest DVD rentals in blockbuster history like

07:07more than Titanic you know so I remember going to blockbusters it was complete walls of boondock

07:12saints and it all it was all because of word of mouth became this huge cult film okay thank you I'm

07:18Norman Reedus thank you for coming to stunt school with me go see ballerina

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