'The Fall Guy' top stars give love letter to stuntmen in film

Often neglected in films, the stunt performers are at the core of Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt's new movie The Fall Guy where the stars give them the credit they deserve.

In a chat with GamesRadar+, the Oppenheimer actress said, "We've always been so full of admiration for stunt performers, you're so grateful for them."

She continued, "Their contribution to cinema is so vast, and I think because of their innate humility, and the fact that they're always hiding their faces and disappearing into the shadows, it's been more acceptable to not broadcast this contribution to cinema.

"And what you see is an incredible sequence in James Bond or Mission: Impossible or Fall Guy, but they've been designed. That's a very integral word to what I now view it all as."

Taking a step ahead, Ryan called the stunt performers actors explaining, "They're actors as well. We're all in the same union, and they show up and they also play your character. You're not the only person that plays your role, they do too."

"And in a lot of cases, they do the more harrowing things, the more dangerous things, the things that really set your character apart from everyone else. It's thanks to them and their special skills and their bravery, and yet they disappear into the shadows, and they go uncredited."

The Fall Guy will hit the theatres on May 2 in the UK.