{"id":4600,"date":"2019-01-01T21:54:19","date_gmt":"2019-01-01T21:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/?p=4600"},"modified":"2023-05-24T17:56:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T17:56:13","slug":"every-day-a-different-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/2019\/01\/01\/every-day-a-different-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Every Day a Different Adventure&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><em>\u201cOUR JOB IS TO MAKE THE ACTORS LOOK BETTER, whether we\u2019re doubling for them or getting killed by them.\u201d<\/em><br \/>\n<strong>\u2014Nnamdi Nwosa \u201904<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>He stares down the barrel of the gun, hears the shot, then feels his body hurtling backward until he lands flat on his back in the middle of the crowded room.<\/p>\n<p>Is he hurt or not? He listens to the voices around him for a cue.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCUT!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He gets up, walks to the same spot, stares down the barrel of the gun, listens for the shot, and does it again\u2026 six more times.<\/p>\n<p>So goes the day for stuntman Nnamdi Nwosa \u201904 on the set of Fox TV\u2019s Gotham.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI like to hit the floor as soon as possible, to get that first contact over with,\u201d says Nwosa. \u201cYou stay focused, figure out what you have to do. It\u2019s like going from 0-90 in a second\u2014you focus, do the scene, collect yourself, then get ready for the next take.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery day is a different adventure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Photo by Kim Johnson<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOUR JOB IS TO MAKE THE ACTORS LOOK BETTER, whether we\u2019re doubling for them or getting killed by them.\u201d \u2014Nnamdi Nwosa \u201904 He stares down the barrel of the gun, hears the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":4602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-class-notes","category-featured-videos","post_format-post-format-audio"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2019\/01\/0b8a4831-1024x683.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4600"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4663,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4600\/revisions\/4663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}