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The Projection Booth Podcast

Special Report: Hollywood Bulldogs (2021)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8686 Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2021

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Director Jon Spira talks to Mike about his career including his latest film, the 2021 documentary Hollywood Bulldogs: The Rise and Falls of the Great British Stuntmen. Keep up with Jon at jonspira.co.uk
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0:00.0

You're listening to an Airwave Media Podcast.

0:09.2

Hold your ears, folks. It's showtime. People pay good money to see this movie. When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.

0:21.9

Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.

0:24.8

Turn it off.

0:30.1

Turn it on.

0:36.1

Hey.

0:36.6

And God! My first film was the dirty does.

0:47.6

And I didn't know shit from toothpaste.

0:52.3

If you've got any sense, Suspia, do you recognise these guys? If you've got any sense, Sus, fear, do you recognise these guys?

0:57.9

They're falling, jumped, craced, punched, kicked, stead, swung and exploded their way for the last 60 years of cinema.

1:05.5

It wasn't an A-stump business like it is now. Taxi drivers, bouncers, barmen.

1:10.6

I was working in a factory in North London.

1:12.7

They might look like any bunch of old geysers,

1:15.4

but they're pretty special.

1:16.9

I could put my back against a friend

1:19.0

and punch my way out of my room.

1:20.5

They wanted someone to drive the Z-type quite quickly.

1:23.2

Didn't mind getting bashed up or running around

1:25.0

because that's what they was doing anyway.

1:27.9

You said, you want to do a stunt in a movie?

1:31.3

So I said, yeah.

1:32.5

Not knowing, it was a stunt man.

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