Director David Leitch started his career as Brad Pitt’s stunt double, then Matt Damon’s. So who better to tell Ryan Gosling how to ride a broken bin across Sydney Harbour Bridge at 50km/h?
David Leitch was standing with his star Ryan Gosling on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. It was about 5am, on a Sunday morning in late January 2023, and they were in the middle of filming– the stunt he was about to perform. Nothing too big: Gosling just had to stand on a broken skip bin and hold a shovel while being dragged across the bridge by a truck doing just over 50km/h. Oh, and they only had two hours to get the shot.
Still, it was better than the time Leitch dropped the afraid-of-heights Gosling several storeys off a city building or put him on top of the Goulburn Street car park. “He has said, ‘You know, there’s this thing called green screen, Dave, I don’t know if you know about it, maybe we could use green screen.
“We had a great screening at South by Southwest ,” says Leitch. “And it’s obviously like a fun festival to be at because there’s not a lot of cynicism, it’s really about people that love movies. But we blew the roof off the place and it was really validating.“My movies are generally rated R … I only wanted to make this PG-13 or PG because I wanted it to reach everybody, I wanted to make something that would make people happy.
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