Director Scott Waugh recruited Robbie Maddison for the wildest bike-on-a-boat stunt you’ll see this year.
Probably a stunt performer.
Warning: This article describes a particularly cool action sequence from late in the film.
“It was something that was written but to a small level,” Waugh said.
This thing is riding around the ship, this needs to be turned into some battle.'
Waugh took me through how that whole bit came to be.
And apparently they needed him.
“When we got Robbie to come out and do it, it was pretty damn exciting.
He did the jump for me five times, and it looked great.
But I had something in my mind where I just wanted him to get upside-down.
And I came to him and I said ‘Hey man, Robin could do me a favor?
You think he could flick it out a little bit more?’
And we were like, yeah, we’re not doing that anymore.
Good shot, next, moving on.”
That honor goes instead to the climactic fist fight between Statham and The Raid star Iko Uwais.
It’s got two great fight actors in cinema right now," Waugh said.
“Obviously, Iko from The Raid.
Everyone knows how badass that guy is.
It’s, you know, four and a half minutes long.
It was, for me, awesome, and I think ends in absolute Expendables style.”
So we’re good at just being brothers."
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