EP 109 — Cale Schultz: Stuntman, A Life in the Movies

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🗓️ 3 November 2020

⏱️ 197 minutes

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How do stuntpeople make fight scenes in action films look so real? Veteran stuntman Cale Schultz shares his journey from studying electrical engineering to working on major action films from John Wick to Birds of Prey in this cinematic Living 4D conversation. Learn more about Cale and his work as manager/director at 87Eleven Action Design and his IMDB page. Find him on social media via Instagram. Show Notes Cale’s most recognizable role and his favorite fight scene in the first John Wick fil...

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0:00.0	Oh, you know, these stunt guys, they must be like adrenaline junkies.
0:02.8	They must just love to go crazy and jump off of buildings.
0:05.6	And he was just like, no, he's like, these are like, the things we do are highly trained,
0:11.6	highly rehearsed to the point of ad nauseum where you can't
0:14.7	screw it up and we design the stunts so that they're the safest possible thing they can ever be.
0:20.6	And to the point of like production is so mad about all the money we spent just trying to make sure he doesn't break a pinky.
0:26.7	Yeah. And he goes so no it's not just about being an asshole and an idiot and jumping off a building. Like it's about how to make a super safe, predictable, rehearsed thing look awesome.
0:42.1	Welcome to Living 4D with Paul Chek.
0:45.0	Today's guest is Stuntman Kale Schultz.
0:48.2	For the last decade, Kale has been the director of operations for 8711 action design, the world's
0:55.4	premiere action design and the martial art choreography team as a stuntman,
1:00.5	stunt rigger, martial artist, and student of all things diet, health and fitness related,
1:06.2	Hale has done his best to find a balance between Hollywood life and real life, not only for himself, but also for his training clients and fellow stunt performers.
1:17.0	My stepfather was a special effects man at Universal Studios in LA when I was a child, and I got to go to the sets where they filmed the movies now and then.
1:28.0	It was always fascinating to me, and having that exposure as a child helped me to always realize that whatever happened in the movies was make-believe.
1:37.0	As a therapist, I can tell you that many children and adults do not realize that and are negatively impacted by a lot of movies they see because
1:45.1	they can't differentiate illusion from reality.
1:49.3	Sound familiar?
1:50.7	A few years ago at Palio FX in Austin, Penny Angie, Mona, and I met Alex and Sarah Ribjinsky for lunch.
1:57.0	And when we showed up to meet them, they were with a very large, muscular, powerful Viking-like man with a bald head and a long beard.
2:05.8	That was Kale Schultz.
2:08.0	At first I thought he was one of the pro football players Alex coaches, but I soon found out that Kale was a stuntman in
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