Kids really asked the darnedest things.
06.04.2022 - 06:37 / etcanada.com
Jake Gyllenhaal is opening up about a crazy stunt in the new Michael Bay film “Ambulance,” in which he plays a career criminal driving a stolen ambulance full of hostages while being chased by police along the bank of the Los Angeles River.
While the stunt is the movie’s showstopper, Bay — who’s demonstrated his action-movie cred in such films as “Transformers”, “Bad Boys” and “Armageddon” — didn’t have that scene in the original script, and cooked it up on the spot.
“I had no idea,” Gyllenhaal revealed in an interview with Variety at the premiere of the film, explaining how he learned he was about to hang out of a moving vehicle during a high-speed car chase.
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“We were on our way home, [co-star] Yahya [Abdul Maheen II] was driving the ambulance. We were almost finished with our day, and we were driving to get back into our civilian clothes, out of our characters’ clothes. Michael called us on the radio and was like, ‘Wait, come back! They opened up the L.A. River!’” Gyllenhaal recalled.
Bay walked them through the stunt. “‘He was like, ‘I have an idea! I have two helicopters!’” Gyllenhaal said. “And I was like, ‘How? What are you talking about, you have two helicopters? Where are they?’”
Once Bay managed to coordinate the plan with his stunt team, they were off and running.
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“[Michael] just planned the whole scene, sort of an improvisation of the scene, and it went that way,” Gyllenhaal explained.
“Every day was a little like that,” he added. “And I was like, ‘That’s why you make a Michael Bay movie. That’s the reason. To hang out of a moving
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Wilson Chapman editorIn Michael Bay’s new action thriller “Ambulance,” Jake Gyllenhaal plays career criminal Danny Sharp. One of the highlights of the film is an intense stunt where Gyllenhaal hangs outside the door of the titular vehicle, shooting a gun while helicopters chase him, his adopted brother Will (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) and their hostages — EMT Cam Thompson (Eiza González) and a patient — as they speed along the bank of the Los Angeles River.At the film’s Los Angeles premiere on Monday night, Gyllenhaal revealed that the scene wasn’t in the original script. Instead, Bay came up with the idea the night of filming.“I had no idea,” Gyllenhaal told Variety on the red carpet outside the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures.
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