Hollywood Reporter: Warner Bros. has been hit with a lawsuit over an alleged stunt-gone-bad on the Bangkok, Thailand set of Hangover 2 that left a man with significant brain injuries.
Scott McLean alleges that he was acting as a stunt double for actor Ed Helms during a sequence filmed on Dec. 17, 2010 where automobiles were traveling at high speeds. McLean was a passenger in one of those cars. A production source told THR last December that McLean was in a moving truck leaning out the window when the car driving towards it to pass skidded suddenly and hit.
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This is a very sad occurrence, and I'm sure stunt-related injuries happen fairly often, and I wonder what sort of rules are in place to lessen these types of injuries. It seems that a stunt-double would operate on a different safety standard than other actors, and I would love to know which of those standards were overlooked when this injury occurred.
I think that in general stunt doubles are treated poorly. They obviously aren't payed as much as the well-known actors. This doesn't seem fair to me. I'm not discounting the work that leading ladies and men put into their performance; anyone truly familiar with the entertainment can recognize the intensity with which professional actors approach their roles. However, comparatively, the work an actor puts into a typical scene doesn't equate to the life-risking feats that stunt-doubles do for a living. It doesn't make sense to pay them as much as the leading actors are payed (then no movies would ever get made). I still think that stunts should be given as much attention as possible, and if something terrible does happen, families should be immediately compensated.
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