Josh Johnson
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Podcast Appearances
You were never scared, you were never like, okay, that hurt two people now.
Yeah, exactly.
Maybe there's a bad stunt.
Stunts is not one of the, I learned this the hard way, stunts is not one of those fields where you want to lie about your work experience, for sure.
And I did it, like, constantly.
They were like, oh, have you ever been squibbed before?
Squib is like a little explosive packet for when you get shot by a, so it's, you know, it's a prop and it's fake, but it's also like, there's impact and there's like a little micro explosion.
And I was like, yeah!
I know what that is, and it really hurt.
I wasn't ready for it.
I think I had my hand, like, somewhere near, and it nearly blew my hand off.
You know, there's this thing called a gainer three-quarters where you get, you know, people, stunt people do it sometimes where you get clocked in the throat, and you kind of do this, like, back flip, and you land on your, and they're like, you've done that before, right?
And I was like, yeah.
And I had never done it before, so I had to learn it as I was doing it.
And so it just felt real when you did it.
Yeah, I just did it for real.
I kind of expected, as a character, I was like, oh yeah, it would just come to me in that moment.
Was there ever a take where they came up to you after they cut and they were like, why didn't you move?
Yeah, no, totally, totally.
You just got hit.